Lecture 13
Saving Biodiversity and
Protecting Ecosystem Services,
part 1
The Age of Sustainable Development
13.1. Relationships between Ecosystems and
Well-being
Source: Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. 2005. Ecosystems and Human Wellbeing: Synthesis. Washington, DC: Island Press.
13.2. Human Footprint Index of Relative
Human Influence Around the World
Copyright 2008. The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York. Source: Center for International Earth Science Information Network
(CIESIN). “The Last of the Wild” data set. New York: Columbia University and Wildlife Conservation Society, the Bronx Zoo.
http://www.sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/wildareas.
13.3. Model of Humanity’s Direct and Indirect
Effects on the Earth System
Source: Vitousek, Peter M., Harold A. Mooney, Jane Lubchenco, and Jerry M. Melillo. 1997. “Human Domination of Earth’s Ecosystems.” Science
277(5352): 494–499. Reprinted with permission from AAAS.
13.4. Human Dominance or Alteration of Several
Major Components of the Earth System
Source: Vitousek, Peter M., Harold A. Mooney, Jane Lubchenco, and Jerry M. Melillo. 1997. “Human Domination of Earth’s Ecosystems.” Science
277(5352): 494–499.
13.5. IUCN Species Classification System
Source: IUCN 2001.
13.6. IUCN Red List of Endangered Species
Source: IUCN Red List version 2014.
13.7. Total Fish Catch (Aquaculture
Production and Wild Caught)
Source: Global total wild fish capture and aquaculture production in million tonnes, 1950–2010 as reported by FAO/FishStat database, Wikimedia
Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.
13.8. Increase of Global Fishing Fleets
(1950,2006)
© WWF. 2012. Living Planet Report 2012. WWF International, Gland, Switzerland.
13.9. Spatial Expansion and Ecological
Footprint of Fisheries (1950,2005)
Swartz W., Sala E., Tracey S., Watson R., Pauly D. (2010) The Spatial Expansion and Ecological Footprint of Fisheries (1950 to Present). PLoS ONE
5(12): e15143. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0015143. Sea Around Us (www.seaaroundus.org).