Biodiversity loss caused by subsurface pipe drainage is difficult to restore

Krejčová, J.; Vicentini, Fabio; Flynn, Trevan; Mudrák, Ondřej; Frouz, Jan

doi:10.1016/j.ecoleng.2021.106336

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“…Drainage alters the hydrological functioning of entire landscapes, and negatively impacts biodiversity and ecosystem services of (near)-natural peatlands and paludicultures even without direct water diversion and extraction (Holden et al 2006 ; Yule 2010 ; Krejčová et al 2021 ). As such, rewetted (peat)land surrounding core peatland reserves and paludicultures can function as a hydrological buffer against adjacent high-intensity land use (Fig.…”

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Wetscapes: Restoring and maintaining peatland landscapes for sustainable futures

Temmink

Robroek

Dijk

et al. 2023

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Peatlands are among the world’s most carbon-dense ecosystems and hotspots of carbon storage. Although peatland drainage causes strong carbon emissions, land subsidence, fires and biodiversity loss, drainage-based agriculture and forestry on peatland is still expanding on a global scale. To maintain and restore their vital carbon sequestration and storage function and to reach the goals of the Paris Agreement, rewetting and restoration of all drained and degraded peatlands is urgently required. However, socio-economic conditions and hydrological constraints hitherto prevent rewetting and restoration on large scale, which calls for rethinking landscape use. We here argue that creating integrated wetscapes (wet peatland landscapes), including nature preserve cores, buffer zones and paludiculture areas (for wet productive land use), will enable sustainable and complementary land-use functions on the landscape level. As such, transforming landscapes into wetscapes presents an inevitable, novel, ecologically and socio-economically sound alternative for drainage-based peatland use.

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Section: Creation Of Sustainable Wetscapesmentioning

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Wetscapes: Restoring and maintaining peatland landscapes for sustainable futures

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Robroek

Dijk

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“…Belete et al, 2020). Despite this, it has been shown that even when landscape‐based restoration attempts are made, long‐term improvements in biodiversity metrics are not guaranteed, especially on fragile peatlands (Krejčová et al, 2021).…”

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Costs and benefits of landscape‐based water retention measures as nature‐based solutions to mitigating climate impacts in eastern Germany, Czech Republic, and Slovakia

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In eastern Germany, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia, historic policies led to large, monocropped agricultural landscapes resulting in degradation of traditional landscapes. In the last 20 years, the expansion of urban and industrial areas has added to this degradation. The growing interest in nature‐based solutions, including water‐retention measures, is a response to reversing landscape degradation, rejuvenating ecosystem services, and mitigating the impacts of large‐scale commercial agriculture and climate change. In this study, the costs and benefits of water‐retention measures in eastern Germany, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia are assessed. Results indicate that water‐retention measures offer increased water availability over all land use classes assessed, help increase crop productivity, and aid in landscape cooling. Croplands are suggested as being the best value for money, offering the greatest volume potentials (mean = 88 million m3), cooling effects (mean = −1.6°C), and productivity gains (mean = €66 million yr−1), while also being the cheapest to implement per unit area. Differing policies in the three states will likely result in non‐uniform selection or implementation of measures. Future work should focus on local‐level studies offering greater practical messages beyond the regional‐level analysis conducted here. This work contributes to the growing body of literature assessing the costs and benefits of water‐retention measures, including the potential for landscape cooling, lowering temperature gradients, and ecosystem restoration. As the world urbanises, and as more land is converted to homogeneous cropland, such measures may prove critical in mitigating climate change, landscape drying, flood runoff, and soil and nutrient loss.

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“…It is known that the conversion to oil palm plantation reduces numerous ecosystem services provided by soil. For example, after logging, areas that are leveled (along with roads) increase run-off causing erosion (Van Wambeke 1992; Hartanto et al 2003), and with the removal of topsoil and drainage, the soil organic matter (SOM) content is reduced (Krejčová et al 2021; Andriesse and Schelhaas 1987). This causes loss of fertility (Dressen et al 1976) and an increase in soil compaction (Lal 2021; Lyczak et al 2021).…”

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Changes in soil chemical properties and their spatial distribution after logging and conversion to oil palm plantation in Sabah (Borneo)

Flynn,

Tuma,

Fayle

et al. 2023

J. Trop. Ecol.

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Conversion of primary forest into oil palm plantations is common in tropical countries, affecting soil properties, ecosystem services and land-use management. However, little is known about the short-range spatial soil distribution that is important for soil scientists, ecologists, entomologists, mycologists or microbiologists. In this study, seven soil properties (pH, EC (µS/m), P (mg/kg), NO3- (mg/kg), N%, C% and C:N) were measured to quantify the spatial autocorrelation across primary forest, selectively logged forest and oil palm plantation in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo. Local variograms were calculated (range ∼5 m) to determine the short-range variation, and a decision tree as well as principal component analysis were implemented to determine if the overall (global) mean differed between land uses. As hypothesised, oil palm soils deviated the most from primary forest soils, which had more fluctuating variograms and in general, a shorter range. Oil palm plantations also showed a difference in the global mean except for electrical conductivity. Selectively logged forests also differed in their short-range spatial structure; however, the global mean and variance remained similar to primary forest soil with the exception of labile phosphorus and nitrate. These results were attributed to initial plantation development, removal of topsoil, fertiliser application and topography.

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Biodiversity loss caused by subsurface pipe drainage is difficult to restore

Cited by 10 publications

References 33 publications

Wetscapes: Restoring and maintaining peatland landscapes for sustainable futures

Wetscapes: Restoring and maintaining peatland landscapes for sustainable futures

Costs and benefits of landscape‐based water retention measures as nature‐based solutions to mitigating climate impacts in eastern Germany, Czech Republic, and Slovakia

Changes in soil chemical properties and their spatial distribution after logging and conversion to oil palm plantation in Sabah (Borneo)

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