Synergies and trade-offs among ecosystem services and biodiversity in different forest types inside and off-reserve in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina

Abstract

Land use planning is mainly based on monetary values of provisioningecosystem services (ES). However, many other non-monetary ES and biodiversityprovide values for human well-being, and it should be included in the decisionmaking.The objective of this chapter was to characterize different ES (provisioning,cultural, supporting, regulating) and potential biodiversity in different foresttypes in Tierra del Fuego Province, Argentina. We map and extract information forprovision of ES and biodiversity and compare them through univariate and multivariatemethods. We found that each forest type showed different potential biodiversitythat determines the need of specific conservation and management strategies.Forest types presented different types and levels of provision of the studied ES,where several synergies and trade-offs were observed according to the current economicactivities. Beside this, ES and potential biodiversity of the forests are notequally represented in the currently protected natural reserve network, compared tothe values at landscape level. These outputs can be used to improve the current landuse planning and the effectiveness of conservation at landscape level.