Linking plant and vertebrate species to Nature’s Contributions to People in the Swiss Alps

Scientific Reports · 5 authors, 3 centres

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They identified 31,098 species-NCP relationships, which they present as a foundational resource for mapping NCPs directly from species distribution data.

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This study compiled scientific literature and expert knowledge to build a comprehensive table of relationships between tracheophyte and vertebrate species and 17 Nature's Contributions to People (NCPs) in the Swiss Alps. The resulting table is intended to serve as a key initial step toward spatial predictions of NCPs from species distributions.

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Linking plant and vertebrate species to Nature’s Contributions to People in the Swiss Alps

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Since the late 1990s, Nature’s Contributions to People (NCPs; i.e. ecosystem services) were used as a putative leverage for fostering nature preservation. NCPs have largely been defined and mapped at the landscape level using land use and cover classifications. However, NCP mapping attempts based directly on individual species are still uncommon. Given that species shape ecosystems and ultimately deliver NCPs, mapping NCPs based on species distribution data should deliver highly meaningful results. This requires first establishing a census of the species-to-NCP relationships. However, datasets quantifying these relationships across several species and NCPs are rare. Here, we fill this gap by compiling literature and expert knowledge to establish the relationships of 1816 tracheophyte and 250 vertebrate species with 17 NCPs in the Swiss Alps. We illustrated the 31,098 identified species-NCP relationships for the two lineages and discuss why such a table is a key initial step in building spatial predictions of NCPs directly from species data, e.g. to ultimately complement spatial conservation planning.

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Pierre-Louis Rey, Pascal Vittoz, Blaise Petitpierre et al.. Linking plant and vertebrate species to Nature’s Contributions to People in the Swiss Alps. Scientific Reports. (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-34236-2

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Pierre-Louis Rey, Pascal Vittoz, Blaise Petitpierre, Antoine Adde, Antoine Guisan

1grid.9851.50000 0001 2165 4204Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics, Faculty of Geosciences and Environment, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
2Info Flora, c/o Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de Genève, Chambésy-Genève, Switzerland
3grid.9851.50000 0001 2165 4204Department of Ecology and Evolution, Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland