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How Ecosystem Services are Measured and Why it Matters for Florida

Charles Wallace, Anna Braswell, Mysha Clarke, Andrew Ropicki, Tara Wade, Frank Asche, Ashley Smyth, Armando Ubeda, and Ed Camp


Release Date: 2/6/2023

Reviewed At: 11/24/2022

DOI: 10.32473/edis-fa252-2023

Natural Resources

Abstract

This publication describes some of the ways to measure ecosystem services and explains how the different approaches to assess ecosystems might be selected, depending on what is most important to the user.

About this Publication

This document is FA252, one of a series of the School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences Program in Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. Original publication date February 2023. Visit the EDIS website at https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu for the currently supported version of this publication.

About the Authors

Charles Wallace, Ph.D. student, School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences; Anna Braswell, assistant professor, School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences and Florida Sea Grant state specialist; Mysha Clarke, assistant professor, School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences; Andrew Ropicki, assistant professor, Food and Resource Economics Department; Tara Wade, assistant professor, Food and Resource Economics Department; Frank Asche, professor, School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences; Ashley Smyth, assistant professor, Department of Soil, Water, and Ecosystem Sciences; Armando Ubeda, Extension agent, Florida Sea Grant Program, UF/IFAS Extension Sarasota County; and Ed Camp, assistant professor, School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences; UF/IFAS Extension, Gainesville, Florida 32611.

Authors

Anna Braswell
Anna Braswell
Specialist
University of Florida

assistant professor, coastal macrosystem ecology, UF/IFAS School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences, Program in Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, Gainesville, FL

Mysha Clarke
Mysha Clarke
Specialist
University of Florida

assistant professor, human dimensions of natural resources, UF/IFAS School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences, Gainesville, FL

Andrew Ropicki
Andrew Ropicki
Specialist
University of Florida

assistant professor and Florida Sea Grant marine economics specialist, UF/IFAS Food and Resource Economics Department, Gainesville FL

Tara Wade
Tara Wade
Specialist
University of Florida

associate professor, Department of Food and Resource Economics, UF/IFAS Southwest Florida Research and Education Center, Immokalee, FL

Frank Asche
Frank Asche
Specialist
University of Florida

distinguished professor, natural resource economics, UF/IFAS School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences, Gainesville, FL

 

Ashley Smyth
Ashley Smyth
Specialist
University of Florida

associate professor, biogeochemistry, Ph.D., Department of Soil, Water, and Ecosystem Sciences, UF/IFAS Tropical Research and Education Center

Armando Ubeda
Armando Ubeda
County agent
University of Florida

program Extension agent III, Florida Sea Grant, UF/IFAS Extension Sarasota County, Sarasota, FL

Edward Camp
Edward Camp
Specialist
University of Florida

associate professor, fisheries and aquaculture governance, UF/IFAS School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences, Program in Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, Gainesville FL

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