Ecosystem Service Value Transfer Repository

Monetary valuation of ES is frequently seen as a decision-support tool by providing explicit values for unconsidered, non-market goods and services. Despite all criticism benefit transfer, i.e. estimations of values for unsampled areas utilizing results from distant studies, is frequently applied in situations of resource constraints (information, time and money).

Here we present the database used for meta-analytic value transfer functions developed in Schmidt et al. 2016. The database contains 194 valuation studies of ES including 839 monetary values for 12 ES. We combined two, peer reviewed databases (Seppelt et al. 2011, De Groot et al. 2012).