A Guide to Historical Data Sets for Reconstructing Ecosystem Service Change over Time

Tomscha, Stephanie A.; Sutherland, Ira J.; Renard, Delphine; Gergel, Sarah E.; Rhemtulla, Jeanine M.; Bennett, Elena M.; Daniels, Lori D.; Eddy, Ian M. S.; Clark, Emily E.

doi:10.1093/biosci/biw086

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“…In our study, we build on the well-known links between LULC and ES supply (Balthazar et al 2015;Bürgi et al 2015b) to address a major knowledge gap concerning the development of cross-border ES assessments over long timeframes (Dallimer et al 2015;Renard et al 2015;Tomscha et al 2016). We combined the key findings of two scientific studies to advance the understanding of ES interactions under long-term LULC change (Tomscha and Gergel 2016).…”

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“…We combined the key findings of two scientific studies to advance the understanding of ES interactions under long-term LULC change (Tomscha and Gergel 2016). The first study, by Egarter Vigl et al (2016), used a historical approach to derive the pattern of multiple ES for a set of representative case studies in the Alps.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Political boundaries rarely coincide with ecological ones and most species migrate freely across them, providing ES irrespective of jurisdictional boundaries. Thus, spatiotemporal analyses employing supranational datasets over large geographic areas are essential to managers and policy makers, as they account for the drivers of change over time (Tomscha and Gergel 2016). Moreover, land management actions and policy decisions in one country can have direct impacts on ES, and the related human well-being, in another (López-Hoffman et al 2009).…”

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Using land use/land cover trajectories to uncover ecosystem service patterns across the Alps

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Managing multiple ecosystem services (ES) in agricultural landscapes is a challenging task, especially in regions with complex topographical and agro-ecological conditions. These challenges require ES assessment approaches that go beyond the case study level and provide multi-temporal information at a transnational level. We used a spatiotemporal approach to examine the impact of specific land use/land cover (LULC) trajectories on eight ES for the past 150 years. We show how a spatially explicit ES upscaling procedure, from case study to an Alpine-wide level, based on topographical, agro-ecological and socioeconomic parameters, can improve our understanding of ES dynamics and bundles. Our results indicated that the provision of multiple ES was not stable during the 150 years surveyed, mainly depending on the prevailing land management type and the biophysical conditions. ES bundle mapping enabled us to identify landscapes with consistent socioecological characteristics that are most likely to either enhance or diminish the provision of specific types of services. By introducing a spatiotemporal perspective into ES assessment, we provide clear evidence of the dynamic nature of ES provision and contribute to identifying processes and drivers behind these interactions. Our results emphasize that mountain ES supply is particularly sensitive to long-term LULC change, to biophysical characteristics and to regional socioeconomic conditions. They indicate the benefit of integrating of ES bundles into environmental policies at national and transnational level.

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“…However, this was outside for the scope of the current study. Focusing on colonial records only, researchers are increasingly aware of the potential biases in the type of user that is represented in such analyses [23], though it is interesting to note that recent highprofile conceptual frameworks that have been posited to study historical ecosystem services have highlighted the importance of personal perspectives in assessing historical ecosystem services, but still do not adequately take such biases into account [22]. It is important to note the type of author that wrote these articles, and the audiences that these articles were intended to reach, as this has implications for the perception and interpretation of historical ecosystem services.…”

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“…Information on ecosystem disservices may be particularly skewed as some of the writers may have been less familiar with the mangrove setting. To address this, it would be suitable to consult alternative sources of information created by local mangrove users during this time period, including local records and oral histories [22]. However, this was outside for the scope of the current study.…”

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Ecosystem Services and Disservices of Mangrove Forests: Insights from Historical Colonial Observations

Friess

2016

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Ecosystem services are now strongly applied to mangrove forests, though they are not a new way of viewing mangrove-people interactions; the benefits provided by such habitats, and the negative interactions (ecosystem disservices) between mangroves and people have guided perceptions of mangroves for centuries. This study quantified the ecosystem services and disservices of mangroves as written by colonial explorers from 1823-1883 through a literature survey of 96 expedition reports and studies. Ecosystem disservices were most commonly discussed (60%), with settlers considering mangroves as reservoirs of diseases such as malaria, with wide-ranging implications, such as the global drainage of wetlands in the 19th-20th centuries. Multiple ecosystem services were discussed, especially provisioning services for export, representing colonial views of new lands as ripe for economic use. Interestingly, regulating services of mangroves such as erosion control and sediment accretion that are a focus of much contemporary research were recognized as early as 1865. This study shows that the ecosystem service paradigm has a long history in mangroves. We should not underestimate mangrove ecosystem disservices, and how contemporary perceptions of mangroves may be influenced by such historical viewpoints. Archival materials provide a rich resource to study human-environment interactions, and how they change through time.

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Sustainability of Ecosystem Services ( ESs )

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A Guide to Historical Data Sets for Reconstructing Ecosystem Service Change over Time

Cited by 47 publications

References 90 publications

Using land use/land cover trajectories to uncover ecosystem service patterns across the Alps

Using land use/land cover trajectories to uncover ecosystem service patterns across the Alps

Ecosystem Services and Disservices of Mangrove Forests: Insights from Historical Colonial Observations

Sustainability of Ecosystem Services ( ESs )

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