Quite often in environmental-economic literature (e.g. The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity) welfare theory is used to calculate the supply of "ecosystem services" in "natural capital accounting" (NCA)?
I am interested in literature which views ecosystems in different ways, especially from a "network" perspective. For example, a food web or food chain seem to me to have network structures. Do you have any suggestions about the most important references in this field?
I work on supply chains and all of them have unique attributes and we use network theory (among others) to analyze them. I think the system of protected areas and high ecological value tracks, bands (rivers, migration routes, etc.) make a spatial network. Adding another dimension, ecosystem services, for example, bicycle trails and hospitality service and its supply chains also create a network. Maybe I totally misunderstood your question. In Rotorua NZ, we are very keen on researching this integrated approach of using natural resources and recognizing ecosystem services. Richard Yao leads our effort and he published a good socio-economic paper 'Valuing biodiversity enhancement in New Zealand's planted forests: Socioeconomic and spatial determinants of willingness-to-pay' http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921800913003649
There is a series of work by Robert Ulanowicz using information theory to energy flows within a food web. You can search "Ecopath" and "network analysis" for more literature information. I hope this answers your question.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Ulanowicz
http://sources.ecopath.org/trac/Ecopath/wiki/EwEugEweNetworkAnalysisPlugin
Dear Rutger,
you may be interested in how fungal network may rearrange nutritionally scarce environment, making it suitable for invertebrates:
https://www.researchgate.net/project/The-paradox-of-the-efficient-feeding-strategy-of-dead-wood-eaters/update/58bf1dc79349407f5e2f9a1f
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308778403_Nutritional_dynamics_during_the_development_of_xylophagous_beetles_related_to_changes_in_the_stoichiometry_of_11_elements
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/300070797_Fungal_Transformation_of_Tree_Stumps_into_a_Suitable_Resource_for_Xylophagous_Beetles_via_Changes_in_Elemental_Ratios
Kind regards,
Michał Filipiak
https://www.researchgate.net/project/The-paradox-of-the-efficient-feeding-strategy-of-dead-wood-eaters/update/58bf1dc79349407f5e2f9a1f
Article Fungal Transformation of Tree Stumps into a Suitable Resourc...
Article Nutritional dynamics during the development of xylophagous b...
A recent review of ecological networks (Tylianakis and Morris 2017) may provide some information and references. It is focused more on network structure but it does bring up food webs and how structure and ecosystem functioning are related.
http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-110316-022821
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