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SUBMITTER: Willcock S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC10081842 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Willcock Simon S Hooftman Danny A P DAP Neugarten Rachel A RA Chaplin-Kramer Rebecca R Barredo José I JI Hickler Thomas T Kindermann Georg G Lewis Amy R AR Lindeskog Mats M Martínez-López Javier J Bullock James M JM
Science advances 20230407 14
Sustaining ecosystem services (ES) critical to human well-being is hindered by many practitioners lacking access to ES models ("the capacity gap") or knowledge of the accuracy of available models ("the certainty gap"), especially in the world's poorer regions. We developed ensembles of multiple models at an unprecedented global scale for five ES of high policy relevance. Ensembles were 2 to 14% more accurate than individual models. Ensemble accuracy was not correlated with proxies for research c ...[more]