A multi-Criteria Wetland Suitability Index for Restoration across Ontario’s Mixedwood Plains

Medland, Sally J.; Shaker, Richard R.; Forsythe, K. Wayne; Mackay, Brian R.; Rybarczyk, Greg

doi:10.3390/su12239953

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“…Getis-Ord Gi * is a local index of spatial association (LISA) test that is often used for "hot spot" analysis (Getis and Ord, 1992) and computes z-scores and P-values, specifying where those feature patterns are located (Wong and Lee, 2005). For significantly positive z-scores, the larger the z-score is, the greater the clustering of high values (hot spot); for negative z-scores, the smaller the z-score is, the greater the clustering of low values (cold spot) (Medland et al, 2020). This indicates aggregation far from the borderline (hot spots) and aggregation close to the borderline (cold spots) of anthropogenic pressure factors and wild boar nests within the study area.…”

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Wild Boar Survives in a Landscape That Prohibits Anthropogenic Persecution

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Gong

et al. 2022

Front. Ecol. Evol.

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Geopolitical borderlands are politically sensitive areas and biodiversity hotspots, strictly controlled by the government and military. How to ensure political security, while protecting the biodiversity in borderlands is a problem for ecologists and governments. In this study, the nest site selection of the wild boar Sus scrofa was a case study in the Sino-Russia borderland to understand the survival strategy of wild life under anthropogenic pressure. We investigated (a) how the spatial distribution of anthropogenic pressure and wild boar nests in the borderland and (b) how anthropogenic pressure and the border influence on the wild boars’ nest site selection. The Getis-Ord Gi* analysis was used to analyze the distribution patterns of wild boar nest sites and anthropogenic pressures in the borderland, the Structural Equation Models was used to explore the influence of border, roads, settlements, agricultural land, grassland and anthropogenic pressure on wild boars’ nest site selection. The results indicated that wild boar nest sites are close to the border, roads and agricultural land and away from settlements and grassland. Regardless of the combination of anthropogenic pressure, wild boars make the most advantageous choice and prefer to be closer to the borderland. We speculated that military control played a vital role in borderlands for animal protection under anthropogenic pressure. Wild boars benefit from the prohibition of anthropogenic persecution due to military control. Compared with existing measures, we suggest a different protection/wildlife management strategy, what we need to do may be to prohibit anthropogenic persecution rather than perform other human interventions to protect animals. However, for a species with trouble potential, we need to base our conservation strategies on the recovery of top predators, and play the community control role of top predators to avoid the occurrence of trouble.

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Section: Anthropogenic Pressure and Wild Boar Nest Distributionmentioning

confidence: 94%

Wild Boar Survives in a Landscape That Prohibits Anthropogenic Persecution

Tan

Gong

et al. 2022

Front. Ecol. Evol.

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“…The three different weighting approaches used in the site suitability analysis resulted in KOK, KNWR, OHI, PUNA, KAMA, and MOKU being ranked as the top six sites and KAUN, PAIA, and POHO as the lowest, effectively removing them from further consideration (Table 5). The specific submodels we used to arrive at this prioritization of sites differ in important ways from most previous studies, which have ranked wetlands for restoration based solely on watershed attributes and specific wetland properties (White and Fennessey, 2005;Ouyang et al, 2011;Horvath et al, 2017;Qu et al, 2018;Medland et al, 2020). In our study, we incorporated community support in addition to wetland attributes and did so before any new restoration activities.…”

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A prioritization protocol for coastal wetland restoration on Molokaʻi, Hawaiʻi

Drexler,

Raine,

Jacobi

et al. 2023

Front. Environ. Sci.

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Hawaiian coastal wetlands provide important habitat for federally endangered waterbirds and socio-cultural resources for Native Hawaiians. Currently, Hawaiian coastal wetlands are degraded by development, sedimentation, and invasive species and, thus, require restoration. Little is known about their original structure and function due to the large-scale alteration of the lowland landscape since European contact. Here, we used 1) rapid field assessments of hydrology, vegetation, soils, and birds, 2) a comprehensive analysis of endangered bird habitat value, 3) site spatial characteristics, 4) sea-level rise projections for 2050 and 2100 and wetland migration potential, and 5) preferences of the Native Hawaiian community in a GIS site suitability analysis to prioritize restoration of coastal wetlands on the island of Molokaʻi. The site suitability analysis is the first, to our knowledge, to incorporate community preferences, habitat criteria for endangered waterbirds, and sea-level rise into prioritizing wetland sites for restoration. The rapid assessments showed that groundwater is a ubiquitous water source for coastal wetlands. A groundwater-fed, freshwater herbaceous peatland or “coastal fen” not previously described in Hawaiʻi was found adjacent to the coastline at a site being used to grow taro, a staple crop for Native Hawaiians. In traditional ecological knowledge, such a groundwater-fed, agro-ecological system is referred to as a loʻipūnāwai (spring pond). Overall, 39 plant species were found at the 12 sites; 26 of these were wetland species and 11 were native. Soil texture in the wetlands ranged from loamy sands to silt and silty clays and the mean % organic carbon content was 10.93% ± 12.24 (sd). In total, 79 federally endangered waterbirds, 13 Hawaiian coots (‘alae keʻokeʻo; Fulica alai) and 66 Hawaiian stilts (aeʻo; Himantopus mexicanus knudseni), were counted during the rapid field assessments. The site suitability analysis consistently ranked three sites the highest, Kaupapaloʻi o Kaʻamola, Kakahaiʻa National Wildlife Refuge, and ʻŌhiʻapilo Pond, under three different weighting approaches. Site prioritization represents both an actionable plan for coastal wetland restoration and an alternative protocol for restoration decision-making in places such as Hawaiʻi where no pristine “reference” sites exist for comparison.

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“…It is widely acknowledged by academics and practitioners that, due to its ease of use and understanding, AHP facilitates structuring the complexity, measurement, and synthesis of rankings [44,45]. Nonetheless, to our knowledge, just a handful of papers in the literature exist on the implementation of the AHP to the valuation of ESs [46][47][48][49][50].…”

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The Valuation of Ecosystem Services in the Venice Lagoon: A Multicriteria Approach

D’Alpaos

2021

Sustainability

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Coastal ecosystems are among the most economically valuable and highly threatened on Earth; they provide valuable ecosystem services (ESs) but are severely exposed to climate changes and human pressure. Although the preservation of coastal ecosystems is of the utmost importance, it is often sub-optimally pursued by Governments and Societies because of the high costs involved. We consider salt-marsh ecosystems in the Venice Lagoon as an example of a threatened landscape, calling for innovative, integrated management strategies, and propose an application-driven methodological framework to support policymakers in the identification of cost-effective incentive policies to ecosystem preservation. By combining group decision-making and Value-Focused-Thinking approaches, we provide a multiple-criteria decision model, based on pairwise comparisons, to identify which ESs are top-priority policy targets according to a cost-effective perspective. We implemented an online Delphi survey process and interviewed a pool of experts who identified “recreation and tourism”, “coastal protection from flooding”, “carbon storage”, “biodiversity and landscape”, and “nursery habitats for fisheries” as the five most relevant ESs for the Venice Lagoon taking into consideration the Environmental, Economic, and Social perspectives. Our results suggest that the Environmental perspective is the most important criteria, whereas “biodiversity and landscape” is acknowledged as the most important ES.

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A multi-Criteria Wetland Suitability Index for Restoration across Ontario’s Mixedwood Plains

Cited by 9 publications

References 53 publications

Wild Boar Survives in a Landscape That Prohibits Anthropogenic Persecution

Wild Boar Survives in a Landscape That Prohibits Anthropogenic Persecution

A prioritization protocol for coastal wetland restoration on Molokaʻi, Hawaiʻi

The Valuation of Ecosystem Services in the Venice Lagoon: A Multicriteria Approach

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