摘要：The mapping and assessment of ecosystems and their services, an initiative under the EUBiodiversity Strategy to 2020, sets the basis for national ecosystem assessments in EUMember States, including Greece. The highly diverse and heterogeneous Greek landscapeprovides multiple ecosystem services (ES) and benefits to society. However, the rich knowledge base corresponds to limited research to support a national ecosystem assessment inGreece. In this paper, we apply a rapid method to map ecosystem types and quantify ESsupply provided by mountainous protected areas. Using habitat type level data, we created adetailed ecosystem type map that was used as a baseline to assess the supply of provisioningand regulating and maintenance ES. We also applied a site-oriented approach to record andscore the ES supply in each protected area. Summing up individual ES supply resulted in atotal ES supply map which was used to identify ES hot spot areas within the Greek Natura2000 mountainous sites. The results: (1) corroborate the hypothesis that protected areasshould be treated as high value bio-physical and social-cultural complexes accounting for asignificant part of the national capital; (2) highlight data gaps at the national level andlimitations of ES mapping methods under such data restrictions; (3) are intended to provideto stakeholders and decision-makers, baseline information for future applied research andconservation management actions.
