Ecosystem Services from Forest Landscapes: Where We Are and Where We Go

Abstract

In this chapter, we aim for three goals: 1. We summarize some key features from the chapters, as they pertain to the overall themes of the book. The chapters themselves provide great resources to bring awareness to some newer and broader aspects of forest ecosystem services as well as a literature-rich, synthetic approach to understanding these advances and future visions for related research and application. We will highlight some of those points here. 2. We then aim to provide some emerging messages resulting from these newer approaches to understanding the complexities of planning for, evaluating, and accentuating the FES. 3. Finally, we hope to provide some insights on science gaps, research priorities, and potentials for knowledge transfer mainly into practitioners and policy makers.