Supporting ecosystem services (Table 3) are underlying functions, such as biodiversity and soil quality, which are necessary for the production of all other ecosystem services (MA, 2003). The results suggest that these functions are associated with indicative ecological impacts (Table 2), relating to the stakeholders’ feelings and aspirations about environmental issues, such as natural beauty, organic management and the sustainable use of natural resources. In addition, the impact of ‘beauty of nature’ is correlated with the service ‘biodiversity’. In the stakeholders’ opinion, the variety of species is crucial to natural beauty and its maintenance is highly relevant to the preservation of biodiversity. However, their aspirations and perceptions concerning nature protection differed slightly. The nature protection sector favoured an increasing, extensive use of grassland. Nature protection and conservation was also highly significant to the agricultural sector, which emphasized the connection between nature protection and agricultural use, such as production-integrated compensation measures or increasing organic and regional management.