Ecological Infrastructure as a framework for mapping ecosystem services for place-based conservation and management

Perschke, Myriam J.; Harris, Linda R.; Sink, Kerry; Lombard, Amanda T.

doi:10.1016/j.jnc.2023.126389

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“…Rapid urbanization can lead to loss or degradation of natural habitats which provide important ecosystem services [47][48][49]. This underscores the need for careful planning and management to ensure that urban development does not compromise essential ecosystem services [19,50].…”

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Using Ecosystem Services to Inform Sustainable Waterfront Area Management: A Case Study in the Yangtze River Delta Ecological Green Integration Demonstration Zone

Cai

Shu

Zhu

2023

Land

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Ecosystem service assessments are crucial for sustainable water area management. Previous studies and actions on waterfront area management often emphasized merely the saving and use of water resources per se, ignoring the safeguarding of hydrological source ecosystems and assurance of sustainable provision capacity of water supplies. Using the Yangtze River Delta Ecological Green Integration Demonstration Zone (demonstration zone) as an example, this study integrated ecosystem service assessment into waterfront area management in an urbanizing region. We evaluated and mapped four ecosystem services—carbon sequestration, water purification, stormwater regulation and climate regulation—in the demonstration zone in 2020. We examined ecosystem service quantities, spatial distributions and economic values to inform policy balancing development and the environment. Our results show that ecosystem services provide significant benefits to waterfront areas: the zone furnished substantial ecosystem services, sequestering 544,900 tons of atmospheric carbon dioxide (USD 2.03 million), eliminating the total material quantities of nitrogen and phosphorus pollution of 47,700 tons and 13,900 tons (USD 66.31 billion and USD 20.17 billion, respectively), and retaining over 467.48 million cubic meters of stormwater runoff (USD 1756.35 million) and total material quantity of climate regulation amounts to 65.13 billion kilowatt hours (USD 5.10 billion). However, these service provisions varied spatially. Wujiang District provided the most ecosystem services overall, while Qingpu District had the highest per-unit intensities in stormwater regulation. Policy, planning and action should consider ecosystems providing security and prosperity. Managing the trade-offs between development and environment, reducing risks and cultivating resilience necessitates safeguarding ecosystem service potential.

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Using Ecosystem Services to Inform Sustainable Waterfront Area Management: A Case Study in the Yangtze River Delta Ecological Green Integration Demonstration Zone

Cai

Shu

Zhu

2023

Land

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“…The design and implementation of effective management of marine protected areas such as coastal areas require ecological information (Beger et al, 2007;Perschke et al, 2023). In this study, the biodiversity sub-criterion was measured for the shores of Chabahar Bay based on the results of the Shannon-Wiener index, which expresses the difference in biodiversity for the protection of benthos habitat (Moland et al, 2013;Varnes and Olsen, 2023;Naz et al, 2016).…”

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Environmental factors and benthic macrofaunal distribution in the establishment of a baseline for coastal management in Chabahar Bay, Gulf of Oman, Iran

Khaledi

2022

JAD

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Benthic macrofauna has a pivotal role in the energy flow and material cycles of marine ecosystems. Abiotic and biotic factors determine the presence and distribution of benthic macrofauna. The present study investigated possible relationships between benthic macrofauna and natural abiotic factors along the coastal region of the Gulf of Oman, including the north of Chabahar Bay, Konarak, and Tis. This was achieved through survey of the supra-littoral and intertidal zones at low tide, during the cold and warm seasons. In each zone, nine transects were sampled at random using quadrats. Then, sediment characteristics and macrofaunal abundance were determined. Mollusks and echinoderms had the highest and the lowest species richness, respectively. The average values for the Shannon-Wiener index of the transects at Tis, north of Chabahar Bay, and Konarak were 3.22, 3.28, and 3.20 in the warm season, respectively, while the index reached 3.29, 3.47, and 3.17 in the winter. Regardless of seasonality, the level of biodiversity was at a maximum in the northern part of Chabahar Bay, and Konarak showed the minimum biodiversity. The results of multi-linear regression analysis proposed that non-biological factors are suitable proxies for predicting the levels of species density in the study regions (R 2 = 0.72, F(6,71) = 2.25, p< 0.05).

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“…NCPs and ecosystem services are nested or interrelated terms, with NCPs encompassing and extending the scope of the ecosystem service concept (Harrison et al 2019) by aiming to be more inclusive and creating space for different viewpoints (Hill et al 2021). Ecological infrastructure (EI) has emerged as a promising planning concept that aims to create and maintain a network of interconnected natural and semi-natural areas that provide various NCPs and support biodiversity (European Commission 2014, Li et al 2017, Sun et al 2020, Perschke et al 2023. As a counterpart or complement to built infrastructure (Cumming et al 2017), the concept highlights that nature's 'infrastructure' is essential to support human well-being and socio-economic development (Perschke et al 2023) by enhancing the quantity, quality, and connectivity of green spaces while promoting well-being, and improving living, working, and recreational environments (Sun et al 2020).…”

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“…EI is frequently used interchangeably with the term green infrastructure, which is often applied within urban contexts (Matsler et al 2021). However, while the concept has been put on high-level political agendas, such as the United Nations Agenda 2030 (United Nations 2015) and the draft post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (Xu et al 2021), the transition from EI as a theoretical concept towards realizing its implementation presents several challenges (Perschke et al 2023).…”

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“…From a practical perspective, because EI encompasses a mosaic of landscape types for fostering biodiversity and NCPs (Andersson et al 2014), its implementation necessarily requires transdisciplinary collaboration. There are three aspects for which this is particularly pertinent: (1) to plan and negotiate the physical networked structure of the EI to connect landscape elements across scales and ensure multifunctionality (Lennon 2015, Johns 2019); (2) to determine management strategies for biodiversity and NCPs that are holistic with respect to the interdependent systems that are encapsulated by the EI (Perschke et al 2023), and (3) to recognize that EI is also inherently intertwined with the social and technological systems that shape landscapes, as evidenced by its clear linkage to livelihoods and human wellbeing (Sun et al 2020). One way to navigate the challenge of collaboration in EI implementation is to draw upon the concept of the integrated landscape approach formalized in the field of land system science (Freeman et al 2015).…”

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Archetypes of social-ecological-technological systems for managing ecological infrastructure

Wicki,

Black,

Kurmann

et al. 2023

Environ. Res. Lett.

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The concept of ecological infrastructure (EI) as a lens for landscape management has the potential to address environmental challenges, such as biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation, by instrumentalizing Nature’s Contributions to People (NCP). NCPs stems from the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) and refers to the various ways in which the natural world provides benefits, values, and services that directly and indirectly contribute to the well-being, livelihoods, and cultural aspects of human societies. This research explores this potential by proposing an archetype analysis of social-ecological-technological systems (SETS) to manage EI. We derived archetypes using machine learning and clustering on a data-driven SETS framework co-produced with experts in EI management. The archetype analysis was conducted by combining K-means with hierarchical clustering on spatial patterns to generate clusters with similar configurations of social, ecological, and technological subsystems. The approach is illustrated for the canton of Geneva, Switzerland, which experiences high urbanization and ecological pressures. The resulting spatially explicit archetypes of SETS facilitate policy recommendations tailored to multifunctional landscapes, which can be used to derive coherent management strategies for EI. In addition, the approach demonstrates that by taking an integrated landscape approach and engaging with diverse stakeholders, it is possible to develop effective landscape-based management recommendations for promoting the sustainable provision of NCPs and biodiversity within the concept of EI.

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Ecological Infrastructure as a framework for mapping ecosystem services for place-based conservation and management

Cited by 9 publications

References 81 publications

Using Ecosystem Services to Inform Sustainable Waterfront Area Management: A Case Study in the Yangtze River Delta Ecological Green Integration Demonstration Zone

Using Ecosystem Services to Inform Sustainable Waterfront Area Management: A Case Study in the Yangtze River Delta Ecological Green Integration Demonstration Zone

Environmental factors and benthic macrofaunal distribution in the establishment of a baseline for coastal management in Chabahar Bay, Gulf of Oman, Iran

Archetypes of social-ecological-technological systems for managing ecological infrastructure

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