%0 Journal Article %J Ecosystem Services %D 2016 %T Is groundwater recharge always serving us well? Water supply provisioning, crop production, and flood attenuation in conflict in Wisconsin, USA %A Booth, Eric G. %A Zipper, Samuel C. %A Loheide II, Steven P. %A Kucharik, Christopher J. %K Crop production %K Flooding %K Groundwater %K Hydrologic services %K Recharge %K Water supply %X 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. %B Ecosystem Services %V 21, Part A %P 153 - 165 %@ 2212-0416 %G eng %U http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212041616302315 %! Ecosystem Services %R 10.1016/j.ecoser.2016.08.007