The Ecological Footprint can inform benefit transfer estimates of ecosystem services by considering the different productivity of land-types. In this paper, ecosystem service values are used to calculate Ecosystem Service Yield Factors (ES-YFs) for the world countries as monetary-based alternative to resource-based Yield Factors (YFs). These scaling factors are context-dependent and can be used for transferring ecosystem service values calculated in different locations for cropland, grazing land and forest.

The ES-YFs were further used to calculate Biocapacity Economic Values (BEVs) that represent natural capital values and can be used for environmental economic accounting and as a component of wellbeing indicators. Besides improving the accuracy and feasibility of the benefit transfer method, the ES-YFs can inform natural resource management towards more sustainable options and allows for comparison with economic values in markets sensible to asymmetry, incomplete information, unfairness and unethical behaviours.

通过考虑不同土地类型的生产力，生态足迹可以为生态系统服务的收益转移估算提供依据。在本文中，生态系统服务价值用于计算世界各国的生态系统服务产量因子（ES-YFs），作为基于货币的替代资源基础的产量因子（YFs）。这些比例因子与上下文有关，可用于转移在不同位置为农田，牧场和森林计算的生态系统服务价值。

ES-YF还用于计算代表自然资本价值的生物承载力经济价值（BEV），可用于环境经济核算并作为福祉指标的组成部分。ES-YF除了提高收益转移方法的准确性和可行性之外，还可以为自然资源管理提供更多可持续选择的信息，并可以与不对称，不完整信息，不公平和不道德行为的市场中的经济价值进行比较。