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OBServ
Open Library of Pollinator Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Scenarios
Biodiversity is now recognized as pivotal in maintaining ecosystem functions and providing ecosystem services with positive impacts for human well-being. Paradoxically, biodiversity is also being lost at unprecedented rates due to rapid human-induced environmental changes. OBServ focuses on pollinators and the pollination service they provide given their key contributions to biodiversity maintenance and food security and their threatened status globally.
OBServ aims to provide guidance and a formal cost-benefit analysis on the use of different modelling approaches to develop scenarios of pollinator biodiversity and ecosystem services provision. Rather than aiming at finding one model that can be applied universally, we need tools that allow us to select the right models for each situation while taking into account model complexity and data requirements.