This project mapped ten ecosystem services at the England scale following a simple methodology derived from the National Ecosystem Assessment (NEA, 2011). The maps and methodology used the Centre of Ecology and Hydrology’s Landcover Map 2007 (LCM2007) as base data to describe the potential for areas to deliver individual ecosystem services. The maps are based on habitat maps as a proxy for service provision. Natural England is keen to explore the usefulness and perceived level of accuracy of simple approaches to ecosystem services mapping which do not require lengthy data collection or processing and could be made accessible to organisations wishing to adopt the ecosystem approach. This project included a case study on the use of the maps for South Downs National Park.
Natural England
UKNEA
Which ecosystem services were focused on?:
- Aesthetic/inspiration
- Education
- Health and well-being
- Recreation/tourism
- Spiritual/religious
- Crops, livestock, fish
- Drinking water
- Food
- Trees, standing vegetation, peat
- Water supply
- Climate regulation
- Detoxification and purification in air, soils and water
- Pollination