Precaution, uncertainty

Ethical & moral

Insurance & options

Inspiration & mimicry

Religious

Supporting

RESOURCE CAPTURE PRODUCTIVITY DECOMPOSITION NUTRIENT CYCLING

Provisioning

FOOD FRESHWATER WOOD AND FIBER

Regulating

CLIMATE DISASTERS DISEASE

Cultural

AESTHETIC EDUCATIONAL RECREATIONAL

ECOSYSTEM SERVICES

VARIETY OF LIFE ON EARTH - BIODIVERSITY

Ecosystem services

1. Mathematical models

2. Experiments

3. Data syntheses

Community & ecosystem ecology • Species coexistence and biodiversity • Ecosystem services • Experimental facilities

Collaborations • Social sciences (economists) • Engineering (hydrology, geomorphology) • Evolutionary biology, genomics

GLERL CILER Cooperative Institute for Limnology & Ecosystems Research

Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab