Dead planet, living planet

environment, food security and disaster mitigation. It also ad-

dresses the key financial benefits involved in conservation, eco-

system restoration or ultimate loss of ecosystems and their role

in sustainable development. This includes not only the com-

Figure 2:

Ecosystem connectivity and impacts on ecosystem services from human activities.

plexities of ecological restoration, but also the importance of

integrating the multistaker community involved, influencing

and influenced by the initial degradation and in the benefits of

restoration (Brander

et al

., 2006; Granek

et al

., 2010).

Y Y Y Y

Y Y YYYYYYYYYYY

Y Y

Coral reef

Offshore

waters

Seagrasses

Mangroves

Land

Decreased storm

buffering

Export of fish

and invertebrate

larvae and adults

Binding sediments

Absorb inorganic

nutrients

Binding sediments

Absorb inorganic

nutrients

Slow freshwater

discharge

Sediments

Habitat destruction

Changes in nutrients, sediments

and freshwater outputs

Loss of mangrove

and seagrass

habitat

Socio-economic

changes for coastal

populations

Increased sedimentation

and nutrient imput

Decreased fisheries, decreased

revenues from tourism, and

decreased storm buffering

Loss of coral reef habitat

Nutrients

Freshwater

discharge

Decreased storm

buffering and increased

coastal erosion

Export of

invertebrate and

fish larvae

Fish and invertebrate

habitat (adult

migration)

Storm buffering

Fish and

invertebrate

habitat

Export of organic

material and

nutrients for nearshore

and offshore food webs

Export of organic

material and nutrients

for nearshore and

offshore food webs

Export of

invertebrate and

fish larvae

Fish and invertebrate

habitat (adult

migration)

Ecosystem connectivity and impacts on ecosystem services from human activities

Source: WCMC,

Framing the Flow,

2010.

Impacts

Ecosystem

connectivity