Ecosystem services appreciation of urban lakes in Romania. Synergies and trade-offs between multiple users

Hossu, Constantina Alina; Iojă, Ioan-Cristian; Onose, Diana Andreea; Niţă, Mihai Răzvan; Popa, Ana; Talabă, Odelin; Inostroza, Luis

doi:10.1016/j.ecoser.2019.100937

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“…In addition, LULC changes are interrelated with other global processes such as climate change and land degradation (Kertész, Nagy & Balázs, 2019), which directly or indirectly affect local ecosystem services (Hossu et al, 2019; Qiao et al, 2019). For example, approximately 23% of farmland in the Amu Lowland has been degraded due to inappropriate land use activities (Djanibekov et al, 2018), resulting in the loss of biodiversity and the decline of carbon storage capacity, which will further affect agricultural production, disturbance regulation and climate regulation (Sutton et al, 2016).…”

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Variations in ecosystem service value in response to land use/land cover changes in Central Asia from 1995–2035

Chen

Zhang

et al. 2019

PeerJ

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Acute farmland expansion and rapid urbanization in Central Asia have accelerated land use/land cover changes, which have substantial effects on ecosystem services. However, the spatiotemporal variations in ecosystem service values (ESVs) in Central Asia are not well understood. Here, based on land use products with 300-m resolution for the years 1995, 2005 and 2015 and transfer methodology, we predicted land use and land cover (LULC) for 2025 and 2035 using CA-Markov, assessed changes in ESVs in response to LULC dynamics, and explored the elasticity of the response of ESV to LULC changes. We found significant expansions of cropland (+22.10%) and urban areas (+322.40%) and shrinking of water bodies (−38.43%) and bare land (−9.42%) during 1995–2035. The combined value of ecosystem services of water bodies, cropland, and grassland accounted for over 90% of the total ESVs. Our study showed that cropland ecosystem services value increased by 93.45 billion US$ from 1995 to 2035, which was mainly caused by the expansion of cropland area. However, the area of water bodies decreased sharply during 1995–2035, causing a loss of 64.38 billion US$. Biodiversity, food production and water regulation were major ecosystem service functions, accounting for 80.52% of the total ESVs. Our results demonstrated that effective land-use policies should be made to control farmland expansion and protect water bodies, grassland and forestland for more sustainable ecosystem services.

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Variations in ecosystem service value in response to land use/land cover changes in Central Asia from 1995–2035

Chen

Zhang

et al. 2019

PeerJ

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“…In this sense, more and more research is showing the multifunctionality and resilience of green infrastructures, especially in urban areas, which if properly planned and managed can contribute to improve both social and environmental aspects, favoring resilience and quality of life in cities [28][29][30][31][32][33].…”

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Green Infrastructures and Grand Environmental Challenges: A Review of Research Trends by Keyword

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This article aims to analyze research trends on the role played by green infrastructures as a tool seeking to address current environmental challenges, such as climate change, that put human well-being at risk. For this purpose, a bibliometric analysis was used on documents obtained from the WoS database, and selecting the combination of words “green infrastructures”, “ecosystem services”, and “climate change”. The results of this study point to the potential for Green Infrastructures to become a major strategic factor in addressing the global environmental and social challenges facing cities. The findings obtained are relevant to researchers, professionals, and others working on green infrastructure research as tools to address current global environmental problems, such as climate change, urban pollution, loss of biodiversity, or the risk of emergence of new epidemics or diseases.

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“…Generally, the precautionary approach is applied by identifying and analyzing the categories of drivers that influence the degradation of lentic ecosystems, especially in the protected areas [36][37][38] . Three main categories of activities that generate environmental issues have been identified within protected areas included within the Natura 2000 Sites as follows: (a) agricultural activities and forestry practice; (b) sectoral activities (industrial, commercial and tourism sectors); (c) conservation policies (management of protected areas, protection of different species, etc.)…”

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Evaluation of the quality of lentic ecosystems in Romania by a GIS based WRASTIC model

Niculae

Avram

Corpade

et al. 2021

Sci Rep

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Globally, ecosystems are constantly degrading as a result of pressures derived from human activities and climate change. For working towards the restoration of the natural balance, it is necessary to evaluate the deviations induced in the ecosystems, to identify where the changes took place, to know what is their amplitude and to decide where it is possible to get involved. Many aquatic ecosystems are depreciated and their restoration is often difficult. Development of appropriate assessment methodologies will improve the decision-making process in public policies for environmental protection and conservation of biodiversity. This study presents an assessment of the degradation level of lentic ecosystems in Romania, performed through a multi-criteria analysis. An extension of the WRASTIC index (Wastewater-Recreational-Agricultural-Size-Transportations-Indutrial-Cover) was generated, namely WRASTIC-HI. The new index was obtained by including values derived from the Potential Pollutant Load index. The analysis showed that 13% of the evaluated lakes are natural, 56.5% are semi-degraded and 30.5% are degraded. The proposed methodology allows to determine the spatial distribution of the degradation sources and to calculate the corresponding indicators. The results obtained provide a useful tool for diagnostic step that can be used as a cornerstone to further identification of environmental conflicts and proposals for improvement of the ecological status of the lentic ecosystems.

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Ecosystem services appreciation of urban lakes in Romania. Synergies and trade-offs between multiple users

Cited by 57 publications

References 45 publications

Variations in ecosystem service value in response to land use/land cover changes in Central Asia from 1995–2035

Variations in ecosystem service value in response to land use/land cover changes in Central Asia from 1995–2035

Green Infrastructures and Grand Environmental Challenges: A Review of Research Trends by Keyword

Evaluation of the quality of lentic ecosystems in Romania by a GIS based WRASTIC model

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