海藻种植吸引了越来越多的兴趣，需要从各种角度进行可持续性评估。本文对瑞典西海岸受海藻种植影响的生态系统服务进行了全面的定性评估。结果表明，支持，监管和供应服务主要受到积极或不受影响，而一些文化服务可能受到负面影响。该分析开始讨论海藻种植的框架-它是提供生态系统服务的一种方式和/或产生有价值的生物量的一种方式？在当地情况下进一步探索这些框架对于确定权衡和设计适当的政策和发展战略可能是有价值的。许多发现的影响可能在不同地点和种植规模的特征上具有普遍性，但是对于一些服务，包括大多数支持服务，影响的特征可能是特定地点的，不可推广。
Seaweed cultivation attracts growing interest and sustainability assessments from various perspectives are needed. The paper presents a holistic qualitative assessment of ecosystem services affected by seaweed cultivation on the Swedish west coast. Results suggest that supporting, regulating and provisioning services are mainly positively or non-affected while some of the cultural services are likely negatively affected. The analysis opens for a discussion on the framing of seaweed cultivation - is it a way of supplying ecosystem services and/or a way of generating valuable biomass? Exploring these framings further in local contexts may be valuable for identifying trade-offs and designing appropriate policies and development strategies. Many of the found impacts are likely generalizable in their character across sites and scales of cultivation, but for some services, including most of the supporting services, the character of impacts is likely to be site-specific and not generalizable.
