The Aqua Lab Ecosystems Conservation Index (ALCI) is a system designed to quantify, verify, and monetize ecosystem services, aiming to transform conservation from a cost into a value. It does this by issuing conservation credits based on field-based monitoring, recording, and verification (MRV) of ecosystem performance across seven service domains: biomass, oxygen production, water purification, microclimate & cooling effect, soil organic matter (SOM), water retention, and biodiversity.
ALCI is one of the most integrated, ecological-function-centered MRV + valuation frameworks available. It is scientifically credible, economically interpretable, and operationally applicable for evaluating and valuing ecosystems at landscape scale globally. Its market alignment makes it especially powerful for credit-based conservation financing and performance-based ecological restoration. ALCI uses tried and tested methodological and scientific approaches to validate many indices of ecosystem productivity (services) using primary DATA from a given landscape and habitat type. ALCI uses indicators to identify boundaries of identified points along theprocess of ‘ecological succession’ as a primary indicator of landscape sustainability, and very specific structural indicators of Biomass that measure the baseline and the physiognomic structure of the landscape being evaluated. ALCI addresses the fact that there has not been given any relative market value to the design and establishment of ‘ecological succession’ in order to guarantee the survivability & adaptations of native Biodiversity, the creation of specialized habitat, and increase the accumulation of Photosynthetic Biomass which is the primary driver of sustainability and ecosystem function on terrestrial landscapes.
The ALCI system builds on internationally recognized frameworks and equations:
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