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  • Ecology
  • Social Sciences
  • Environmental Management

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  • Social-ecological networks (SENs) are crucial for analyzing ecosystem services.
  • Current research faces challenges in aligning research questions with ecosystem service conceptualizations within SENs.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose a typology for representing ecosystem services in SENs.
  • To identify opportunities and challenges for using SENs in ecosystem service research.

Main Methods:

  • Literature review across disciplines.
  • Development of a conceptual typology for ecosystem services in SENs.

Main Results:

  • A novel typology to represent ecosystem services as nodes, links, attributes, or emergent properties in SENs.
  • Identification of key opportunities and challenges in applying SENs to ecosystem service research.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed typology enhances research design in the growing field of SENs.
  • This framework facilitates a broader range of questions addressing human-nature interdependencies.