People around the world are looking to marine ecosystems to provide additional benefits to society. As they consider expanding current uses and investing in new ones, new management approaches are needed that will sustain the delivery of the diverse benefits that people want and need. An ecosystem services framework provides metrics for assessing the quantity, quality, and value of benefits obtained from different portfolios of uses. Such a framework has been developed for assessments on land, and is now being developed for application to marine ecosystems. Here, we present marine Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Tradeoffs (InVEST), a new tool to assess (i.e., map, model, and value) multiple services provided by marine ecosystems. It allows one to estimate changes in a suite of services under different management scenarios and to investigate trade-offs among the scenarios, including implications of drivers like climate. We describe key inputs and outputs of each of the component ecosystem service models and present results from an application to the West Coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. The results demonstrate how marine InVEST can be used to help shape the dialogue and inform decision making in a marine spatial planning context.
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Original Articles
Modeling benefits from nature: using ecosystem services to inform coastal and marine spatial planning
Anne D. Guerry Natural Capital Project, Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University , Stanford , CA , USA Correspondenceanne.guerry@stanford.edu, Mary H. Ruckelshaus Natural Capital Project, Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University , Stanford , CA , USA , Katie K. Arkema Natural Capital Project, Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University , Stanford , CA , USA , Joey R. Bernhardt Natural Capital Project, Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University , Stanford , CA , USA , Gregory Guannel Natural Capital Project, Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University , Stanford , CA , USA , Choong-Ki Kim Natural Capital Project, Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University , Stanford , CA , USA , Matthew Marsik NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center , Seattle , WA , USA , Michael Papenfus Natural Capital Project, Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University , Stanford , CA , USA , Jodie E. Toft Natural Capital Project, Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University , Stanford , CA , USA , Gregory Verutes Natural Capital Project, Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University , Stanford , CA , USA , Spencer A. Wood Natural Capital Project, Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University , Stanford , CA , USA , Michael Beck Global Marine Team, The Nature Conservancy , Santa Cruz , CA , USA , Francis Chan Oregon State University , Corvallis , OR , USA , Kai M.A. Chan IRES, University of British Columbia , Vancouver , BC , Canada , Guy Gelfenbaum USGS , Menlo Park , CA , USA , Barry D. Gold Marine Conservation Initiative, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation , Palo Alto , CA , USA , Benjamin S. Halpern National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis , Santa Barbara , CA , USA , William B. Labiosa USGS , Seattle , WA , USA , Sarah E. Lester Marine Science Institute and Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California , Santa Barbara , CA , USA , Phil S. Levin NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center , Seattle , WA , USA , Melanie McField Healthy Reefs , Belize City , Belize , Malin L. Pinsky Hopkins Marine Station, Department of Biology , Stanford University , Pacific Grove , CA , USA , Mark Plummer NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center , Seattle , WA , USA , Stephen Polasky Department of Applied Economics , University of Minnesota , St Paul , MN , USA , Peter Ruggiero Oregon State University , Corvallis , OR , USA , David A. Sutherland NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center , Seattle , WA , USA , Heather Tallis Natural Capital Project, Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University , Stanford , CA , USA , Andrew Day Department of Applied Economics , University of Minnesota , St Paul , MN , USA & Jennifer Spencer West Coast Aquatic , Port Alberni , BC , Canada show all
Pages 107-121
Published online: 31 Jan 2012
Original Articles
Modeling benefits from nature: using ecosystem services to inform coastal and marine spatial planning
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