In October 2019 the Ecosystem Services Partnership (ESP) held its 10th World Conference in Hannover, Germany. An event attended by around 800 participants, quite a difference from the first ESP meeting in 2008, when a small group of ecosystem services experts gathered. This tenth ESP anniversary was good moment to take stock of what the international ecosystem services community has achieved during these years. The author of this commentary has made many, and written a lot about, ecosystem service maps.
The author of this commentary, Louise Willemen, has worked on ecosystem services and rural development issues since 2003. Her current research includes Remote Sensing-based ecosystem service mapping and monitoring, impact assessments of integrated restoration, and prioritization of investments in land degradation neutrality actions in the Global South. In ESP 10, she gave a presentation with the topic of “It’s about time: advancing spatial analyses of ecosystem services and their application“.
In this Commentary, the author argues that the ecosystem service community needs to better deal with time-aspects of ecosystem service information. Here author outlines the importance of including’time’ and ‘timing’ to advance spatial ecosystem service analyses.
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