Ecosystem services

You will now arrive at the page that lists all the ecosystem services that the tool calculates.

You can calculate each ecosystem service separately.

However, we recommend calculating all ecosystem services to take as broad a view as possible and to ensure that you do not miss any trade-offs between ecosystem services. We would also like to point out that this list certainly does not represent the full range of ecosystem services. We therefore recommend asking stakeholders in the area about functions and conflicts between these functions.

The non-use value service is disabled by default because the method is not sufficiently scientifically substantiated. However, we have included it because the non-use value (value that we give to nature without actually using it, e.g. value for preservation for future generations, value for possible future use, value as living space for plants and animals) can be much greater than the use value of nature.

Select the services you want to calculate and press "Next step".