Reply to Bridgewater and Babin: Need for a new protected area category for ecosystem services
DOWNLOADMay 30, 2017 - Weihua Xu, Yi Xiao, Jingjing Zhang, Wu Yang , Lu Zhang, Vanessa Hull , Zhi Wang, Hua Zheng, Jianguo Liu , Stephen Polasky, Ling Jiang, Yang Xiao, Xuewei Shi, Enming Rao, Fei Lu, Xiaoke Wang, Gretchen C. Daily, and Zhiyun Ouyang
Journal or Book Title: PNAS
Volume/Issue: Vol. 114/No.22
Page Number(s): E4319–E4320
Year Published: 2017
We thank Bridgewater and Babin for their perspective. We are aware of, and appreciate, the consideration of ecosystem services in the management of Biosphere Reserves. However, we see a strong imperative for establishing a protected area category focused specifically on protecting ecosystem services, for several key reasons articulated in our paper and below...
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1703083114
Type of Publication: Journal Article