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ArticleAmbio2017

From food to pest: Conversion factors determine switches between ecosystem services and disservices.

Laura Vang Rasmussen, Andreas E Christensen, Finn Danielsen, Neil Dawson, Adrian Martin, Ole Mertz, Thomas Sikor, Sithong Thongmanivong, Pheang Xaydongvanh

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Article in Ambio, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Laura Vang RasmussenDepartment of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Øster Voldgade 10, 1350, Copenhagen K, Denmark. lrasmuss@umich.edu.
Andreas E ChristensenDepartment of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Øster Voldgade 10, 1350, Copenhagen K, Denmark.
Finn DanielsenNordic Agency for Development and Ecology (NORDECO), Skindergade 23, 1159, Copenhagen K, Denmark.
Neil DawsonSchool of International Development, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK.
Adrian MartinSchool of International Development, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK.
Ole MertzDepartment of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Øster Voldgade 10, 1350, Copenhagen K, Denmark.
Thomas SikorSchool of International Development, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK.
Sithong ThongmanivongFaculty of Forestry, National University of Laos, Dongdok, Xaythany District, Vientiane, Laos.
Pheang XaydongvanhFaculty of Forestry, National University of Laos, Dongdok, Xaythany District, Vientiane, Laos.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ecosystem research focuses on goods and services, thereby ascribing beneficial values to the ecosystems. Depending on the context, however, outputs from ecosystems can be both positive and negative. We examined how provisioning services of wild animals and plants can switch between being services and disservices. We studied agricultural communities in Laos to illustrate when and why these switches take place. Government restrictions on land use combined with economic and cultural changes have created perceptions of rodents and plants as problem species in some communities. In other communities that are maintaining shifting cultivation practices, the very same taxa were perceived as beneficial. We propose conversion factors that in a given context can determine where an individual taxon is located along a spectrum from ecosystem service to disservice, when, and for whom. We argue that the omission of disservices in ecosystem service accounts may lead governments to direct investments at inappropriate targets.

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EcosystemRatsAnimalsCrops, AgriculturalLaosPlant WeedsCash crop productionConservationEcosystem disservicesEcosystem servicesShifting cultivation

Identifiers

PMID27590060
PMCPMC5274617

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