Biodiversity provides what we call ecosystem services.

生物多样性提供了我们口中的生态系统服务。

The responses to such arguments have often cited what are called ecosystem services.

而在回应这些争论时常会引用到一个叫做“生态系统服务”的词。

The first is the utility they provide humanity: economists now call this " ecosystem services" .

首先是它们为人类提供的效用：经济学家现在将其称为“生态系统服务”。

What Gabon is saying and what indeed, some private companies who are operating in Gabon are saying is, look, here is this ecosystem service.

加蓬的意思是，还有一些在加蓬经营的私人公司也在说，看，这里有这个生态系统服务。

Momentum on valuing ecosystem services is now unstoppable, and that is a good thing.

重视生态系统服务的势头现在不可阻挡，这是一件好事。

Supporting services are fundamental to all other ecosystem services, such as nutrient cycling and soil formation.

支持服务是所有其他生态系统服务的基础，例如养分循环和土壤形成。

But rarely do we couple that with the other ecosystem services that these natural ecosystems are providing.

但我们很少将其与这些自然生态系统提供的其他生态系统服务结合起来。

Biodiversity loss, environmental degradation, and severe impacts on ecosystem services have not only accompanied conventional farming systems but have often extended well beyond their field boundaries.

生物多样性的丧失、环境退化和对生态系统服务的严重影响不仅伴随着传统农业系统，还往往远超出其田间边界。

The footprint approach does the reverse, comparing humanity's ecological impact-resources consumed and waste produced-with the amount of productive land and water available to supply key ecosystem services.

而“生态足迹”方法正好相反，它将人类对生态的影响——所消耗的资源和产生的废弃物——与现有的能提供关键生态系统服务的生产性土地和水的数量进行对比。

We are getting more and more information that the ecosystem services that grasslands provide are as great as the ecosystem services that forests provide.

: 我们越来越多的信息表明草原提供的生态系统服务与森林提供的生态系统服务一样好。

This is the business case for considering our forests and our trees in our forests, for their entire ecosystem services and not just the price of a 2x4.

这是考虑到我们的森林和森林中的木材的商业案例，为整个生态系统服务，而不仅仅是一块木材的价格。

Valuation in the economic sense suggests that someone has ownership rights — but ecosystem services are rarely, if ever, 'owned' by anyone.

经济意义上的估值表明某人拥有所有权——但生态系统服务很少（如果有的话）为任何人“拥有”。

She is still providing us with ecosystem services and functions that can allow us a transition back into a safe operating space.

她仍在为我们提供生态系统服务和功能，使我们能够过渡回安全的操作空间。

These communities are experiencing climate impacts on their food, water, land, and other ecosystem services necessary for human health, settlement, and survival.

这些社区正在经历气候对其食物、水、土地和其他人类健康、定居和生存所必需的生态系统服务的影响。

It's something we should be worried about because, as Gill Perkins, chief executive of the Bumblebee Conservation Trust, told BBC Future website: “They provide a whole ecosystem service.”

这是我们应该担心的事情，因为正如大黄蜂保护信托的首席执行官吉尔·帕金斯在接受 BBC 未来网站采访时所言：“它们提供了一种完整的生态系统服务。”

Complex, unsolved questions include how climate warming affects forest health; how it affects the performance of forests as a carbon sink; and whether it alters the ecosystem services that forests provide.

尚未解决的复杂问题还包括气候变暖如何影响森林健康；如何影响森林作为碳吸存的表现；以及是否会改变森林提供的生态系统服务。

But this problem exceeds the small island of Guam: widespread losses of birds and mammals throughout the world have put this crucial ecosystem service at risk.

但这个问题超出了关岛这个小岛：全世界鸟类和哺乳动物的广泛灭绝已经使这一重要的生态系统服务处于危险之中。

Higher prices, called price premiums, can be justified as a way to compensate farmers for providing ecosystem services and avoiding environmental damage or external costs.

更高的价格， 称为价格溢价，可以作为补偿农民提供生态系统服务和避免环境破坏或外部成本的一种方式。

We might live by for the next decades like we will with climate change, but we're going to hit a tipping point where these ecosystem services really start to affect everyday life.

在接下来的几十年里，我们可能会像应对气候变化时候一样生活下去，但我们将达到一个临界点，生态系统将真正开始影响人们的日常生活。

Fish and shrimp farmers, like Venkat, are now willing to work with us conservationists to test the sustainable harvest of ecosystem services like crabs, and possibly even honey, for mangroves.

像 Venkat 这样的鱼虾养殖者现在愿意与我们的自然资源保护主义者合作，测试红树林生态系统服务（如螃蟹，甚至可能是蜂蜜）的可持续收获。