@article {146,
	title = {Is groundwater recharge always serving us well? Water supply provisioning, crop production, and flood attenuation in conflict in Wisconsin, USA},
	journal = {Ecosystem Services},
	volume = {21, Part A},
	year = {2016},
	pages = {153 - 165},
	abstract = {Ecosystem service mapping can provide an avenue for making effective land management decisions in a holistic way. However, mapped quantities do not always appropriately represent the ecosystem services that are used by humans. We highlight this issue with a case study of groundwater recharge, water supply, flooding, and agricultural production in an urbanizing agricultural watershed in southern Wisconsin, USA. Groundwater recharge is typically treated as a beneficial ecosystem service or service indicator whose value to humans monotonically increases with the amount of recharge. While appropriate from a water supply perspective, this relationship breaks down when excess groundwater recharge leads to flooding and crop damage. We suggest moving beyond groundwater recharge as a stand-alone ecosystem service, and instead propose that observations and biophysical models should be used to quantify the final service humans receive from groundwater (e.g. reliability of water supply from a municipal well). Integration of such derived, point-based metrics with other ecosystem services that are more easily represented at the landscape scale remains a challenge for regional ecosystem service inventories and analyses.},
	keywords = {Crop production, Flooding, Groundwater, Hydrologic services, Recharge, Water supply},
	isbn = {2212-0416},
	doi = {10.1016/j.ecoser.2016.08.007},
	url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212041616302315},
	author = {Booth, Eric G. and Zipper, Samuel C. and Loheide II, Steven P. and Kucharik, Christopher J.}
}
