Ecosystem Service Interactions – Spatial Interactive Tool (ESI-SIT) is a web-based support tool, developed using the Humberland Levels NIA and Tees Valley as case studies. The tool focusses on the interactions between ecosystem services at the landscape level, and calculates the effect of specific management interventions on these interactions. The model is underpinned by a spreadsheet which provides details on the interactions based on scientific literature.
University of York, funded by Defra
UKNEA
Which ecosystem services were focused on?:
- Aesthetic/inspiration
- Education
- Health and well-being
- Recreation/tourism
- Spiritual/religious
- Crops, livestock, fish
- Drinking water
- Energy
- Fibre
- Food
- Natural medicines
- Trees, standing vegetation, peat
- Water supply
- Climate regulation
- Detoxification and purification in air, soils and water
- Disease and pest regulation
- Erosion control
- Flood control
- Hazard regulation
- Noise regulation
- Pollination
Tees Valley map, available at: http://esi-sit.com/tees-valley/#
Humberhead Levels, available at: map, http://esi-sit.com/humberhead-levels/#
ESI-SIT website, http://esi-sit.com/