Toward meaningful end points of biodiversity in life cycle assessment.

摘要: Halting current rates of biodiversity loss will be a defining challenge the 21st century. To assess effectiveness strategies to achieve this goal, indicators and tools are required that monitor driving forces loss, changing state biodiversity, evaluate policy responses. Here, we review use approaches model in Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), methodology used cradle-to-grave environmental impacts products. We find serious conceptual shortcomings way models constructed, with scale considerations largely absent. Further, there is disproportionate focus on reflect changes compositional aspects mainly species richness. Functional structural attributes neglected. Taxonomic geographic coverage remains problematic, majority restricted one or few taxonomic groups geographi...