Ecological Interfaces between Land and Flowing Water: Themes and Trends in Riparian Research and Management

Rood, Stewart B.; Scott, Michael L.; Dixon, Mark D.; Marks, Christian O.; Shafroth, Patrick B.; Volke, Malia

doi:10.1007/s13157-020-01392-4

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“…In this study, we found that the countries that most published on RZ were: the United States, Brazil, Canada, China, Australia, and Germany. Rood et al (2020) found a similar result: United States, Canada, China, Australia, Brazil, and England. Even though some countries, like Japan, have substantially published about riparian zones during our study period, they do not remain in the ranking in terms of the application of the ES approach.…”

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confidence: 53%

Overview of studies on ecosystem services in riparian zones: a systematic review

2022

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Aim Riparian zones are highly complex ecosystems, located on the banks of water bodies, with a fundamental role in maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem services (ES). This study aimed to systematize the knowledge about studies on ES in riparian zones, emphasizing methodological aspects and pointing out gaps and opportunities to reinforce their importance. Methods The study was carried out based on literature review data over a period of 21 years (2000-2020), using Scopus and Web of Science databases. In the first stage, aspects of bibliometrics were analyzed, as well as the countries that published the most on the subject. In the second stage, the methodological aspects were analyzed (with emphasis on the integrated analysis of multiple ES, which looked at the landscape, adopted multiscale or carried out economic valuation). Results From 2000 to 2020, 6,969 publications were obtained from Scopus and 16,498 from Web of Science, applying the search terms riparian buffer or similar and 371 publications were obtained from Scopus and 1,512 from Web of Science applying ecosystem service and riparian zones or similar terms, with the USA being the country that most published about ES in riparian zones. From a total of 219 publications selected, the ES category most studied in riparian zones was Regulation (65%), followed by Support (16%), Provision (8%) and Cultural (2%). Publications that studied three or more ES corresponded to 9% of the analyzed publications. Approximately 10% of publications used methodological approaches with multiple ESs in an integrated way. Less than 10% of publications focused on economic valuation. Gaps and opportunities were identified concerning the relevance and methods for evaluating and valuing ESs in riparian zones. Conclusions Few studies used methodological approaches integrating different ES. That calls attention to the need to carry out more studies that analyze ES in riparian zones using an integrated and multiscale approach because that is how the components of the ecosystem interact and provide joint responses that may assist in decision making.

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Overview of studies on ecosystem services in riparian zones: a systematic review

2022

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“…these communities as biodiversity hotspots (Riis et al 2020, Rood et al 2020 To generate a spatial representation and assessment of habitat quality, the model requires data related to land use, distribution, and impact of major threats. The model estimates the effect of anthropogenic land uses (threats) on natural vegetation by weighting the distance between vegetation location and multiple threats.…”

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Traditional agricultural practices and their contribution to habitat quality and carbon storage in arid Northwest Mexico: a social-ecological approach in the Rio Sonora sub-watershed

Cornejo-Denman¹,

Romo-León²,

Lutz-Ley³

2023

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Along with environmental factors, agricultural activity is one of the main drivers of change in riparian landscapes of arid regions. Some agricultural practices are considered more sustainability-oriented than others. Despite this, their use is not widespread and their effect on the provision of ecosystem services is not clearly established. Thus, we propose an empirical framework for studying the effects of traditional agricultural practices on regulating ecosystem services in priority and spatially restricted ecosystems. Through spatial analysis and community field work, this study assesses changes in the use of two traditional agricultural practices: living fencerows and acequia irrigation systems and their effect on biodiversity and ecosystem service: habitat quality and carbon storage. Results show that the use of living fencerows promotes habitat quality and carbon storage, but their use is restricted by functional and socioeconomic factors. Acequia systems promote the provision of carbon storage but have a negative influence on habitat quality, and their use is changing mainly due to environmental and functional factors. The presence of obligate riparian vegetation in different configurations maintains the highest values for habitat quality and carbon storage, but it doesn't provide the functional purpose of fencerows or acequias. We suggest that the expansion of voluntary and official conservation areas that promote regeneration of riparian vegetation adjacent and around agricultural areas could help mitigate floods, provide materials and suitable conditions for the maintenance of fencerows and acequias, enhance water and soil quality and many other services needed in agriculture. We consider our proposal to be useful for future assessments of ecosystem services tradeoffs and social-ecological dynamics in other understudied regions with predominantly agricultural activity.

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“…Scientific interest for riparian vegetation has increased over the past decades, to the point where it has become a rather welldescribed topic (Dufour et al, 2019;Rood et al, 2020). Dufour et al (2019) recognise, however, that the topic remains quite scattered, and found that the geographical and climatological spread of studies is far from equal: most work describes systems in North America and Europe, and in temperate or drier zones.…”

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“…This resulted in 145 original papers, 23 reviews, 12 reports and 2 books that describe these pressures and the ecological processes they affect or are expected to affect, or their effects on the vegetation itself. In total, we found 182 sources describing lab, field and modelling research on the effects of flow regulation for hydropower generation, flow regulation through channelisation, the climate crisis, forestry, land use change and non-native species on riparian vegetation and vegetation-shaping processes (Stella and Bendix, 2019;Rood et al, 2020;Laudon et al, 2021;Singh et al, 2021).…”

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Pressures on Boreal Riparian Vegetation: A Literature Review

2022

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Riparian zones are species-rich and functionally important ecotones that sustain physical, chemical and ecological balance of ecosystems. While scientific, governmental and public attention for riparian zones has increased over the past decades, knowledge on the effects of the majority of anthropogenic disturbances is still lacking. Given the increasing expansion and intensity of these disturbances, the need to understand simultaneously occurring pressures grows. We have conducted a literature review on the potential effects of anthropogenic pressures on boreal riparian zones and the main processes that shape their vegetation composition. We visualised the observed and potential consequences of flow regulation for hydropower generation, flow regulation through channelisation, the climate crisis, forestry, land use change and non-native species in a conceptual model. The model shows how these pressures change different aspects of the flow regime and plant habitats, and we describe how these changes affect the extent of the riparian zone and dispersal, germination, growth and competition of plants. Main consequences of the pressures we studied are the decrease of the extent of the riparian zone and a poorer state of the area that remains. This already results in a loss of riparian plant species and riparian functionality, and thus also threatens aquatic systems and the organisms that depend on them. We also found that the impact of a pressure does not linearly reflect its degree of ubiquity and the scale on which it operates. Hydropower and the climate crisis stand out as major threats to boreal riparian zones and will continue to be so if no appropriate measures are taken. Other pressures, such as forestry and different types of land uses, can have severe effects but have more local and regional consequences. Many pressures, such as non-native species and the climate crisis, interact with each other and can limit or, more often, amplify each other’s effects. However, we found that there are very few studies that describe the effects of simultaneously occurring and, thus, potentially interacting pressures. While our model shows where they may interact, the extent of the interactions thus remains largely unknown.

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Ecological Interfaces between Land and Flowing Water: Themes and Trends in Riparian Research and Management

Cited by 16 publications

References 96 publications

Overview of studies on ecosystem services in riparian zones: a systematic review

Overview of studies on ecosystem services in riparian zones: a systematic review

Traditional agricultural practices and their contribution to habitat quality and carbon storage in arid Northwest Mexico: a social-ecological approach in the Rio Sonora sub-watershed

Pressures on Boreal Riparian Vegetation: A Literature Review

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