Ecosystem Services as a Stakeholder-Driven Concept for Conservation Science

Increasingly, conservation biology research and projectsare based on the concept of ecosystem services (ES)(Daily 1997). This concept acknowledges that humansand their environment are tightly linked and that humanwell-being depends on “healthy” ecosystems. The con-cept implies that ecosystems should be maintained in orbrought to a state in which they support human well-being. Thus, under the concept of ES, human well-beingiseffectively