Table 1.
Ecosystem service capacity, capability, supply, and flow concepts.
Table 2.
Ecosystem service flow, capacity, potential supply, and capability for provisioning, regulating, and cultural services.
Fig 1.
Timber harvesting capability, capacity, and four levels (A, B, C, D) of flow, in this case representing harvest. The height of the bars indicates the relative harvest levels under four management types.
Fig 2.
Valuing capacity: a quantitative example for a hypothetical ecosystem supplying one provisioning service.
NPV: Net present value.
Fig 3.
Soil organic carbon (SOC) sequestration: flow, capability when only zero tillage is applied and capability using a combination of six measures for agricultural land in Limburg, Netherlands.
Fig 4.
Timber harvest capacity, flow (i.e. timber harvest) and difference between capacity and flow in Telemark, Norway.
Source: adapted from [15].
Fig 5.
Scenic viewsheds for homeowners–potential supply and flow in the Puget Sound, U.S. Pacific Northwest.
Negative values for viewshed flows occur when viewsheds intersect features that degrade view quality (e.g., commercial or industrial development). Source: adapted from [28].