{"id":890,"date":"2020-05-12T17:27:43","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T15:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpethzprd.ethz.ch\/Science_and_Policy\/?p=890"},"modified":"2020-05-12T21:19:07","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T19:19:07","slug":"how-can-biodiversity-ecosystem-function-research-bef-be-used-to-inform-ecosystem-managers-and-policy-makers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/Science_and_Policy\/2020\/05\/12\/how-can-biodiversity-ecosystem-function-research-bef-be-used-to-inform-ecosystem-managers-and-policy-makers\/","title":{"rendered":"How can biodiversity-ecosystem function research (BEF) be used to inform ecosystem managers and policy-makers?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ecosystem researchers currently do different types of BEF research. How can these studies be used in policymaking? A recent analysis with involvement of Prof. Nina Buchmann from ETH Zurich and member of PSC came up with recommendations: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>In one type of BEF studies, the\nresearchers highly control species composition on a very small spatial scale. These\nstudies are best able to provide general insights into mechanisms and to inform\nthe management of species-poor and highly managed systems such as croplands,\nplantations, and the restoration of heavily degraded ecosystems. <\/li><li>Small-scale observational\nstudies, and species removal and addition studies allow for direct predictions\nof the impacts of species loss in specific semi-natural ecosystems. <\/li><li>Large-scale uncontrolled\nstudies may best inform landscape-scale management and national-scale policy.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: Loos, J., Barnes, A. D., Bat\u00e1ry, P., Bianchi, F. J. J. A, Buchmann, N. et al. (2019). Chapter Ten &#8211; Transferring biodiversity-ecosystem function research to the management of\u201creal-world\u201c ecosystems. Advances in Ecological Research, 61: 323-356. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/bs.aecr.2019.06.009\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/bs.aecr.2019.06.009<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ecosystem researchers currently do different types of BEF research. How can these studies be used in policymaking? A recent analysis with involvement of Prof. Nina Buchmann from ETH Zurich and member of PSC came up with recommendations:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41437,"featured_media":902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[271123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biodiversity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/Science_and_Policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/Science_and_Policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/Science_and_Policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/Science_and_Policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/Science_and_Policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/Science_and_Policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/Science_and_Policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/Science_and_Policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/Science_and_Policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/Science_and_Policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}