Ecosystem services mapping for detection of bundles, synergies and trade-offs: Examples from two Norwegian municipalities

Fernandez-Campo, Martina; Rodríguez-Morales, Beatriz; Dramstad, Wenche; Fjellstad, Wendy; Díaz-Varela, Emilio

doi:10.1016/j.ecoser.2017.08.005

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“…As pointed out by Raudsepp-Hearne et al ( 2010 ), this could be further supported by the notion of complex patterns of ESs generated in a social-ecological system. On the other hand, ES climate regulation is greater in areas with higher forest cover, as forest soils store more carbon than other ecosystems (e.g., Fernandez-Campo et al 2017 ). Regarding provisioning ES, these are also unevenly distributed across landscape types, but for obvious reasons, the provision of wood products and agricultural crops are strongly associated with forests and agricultural land, respectively.…”

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Investigating potential supply of ecosystem services in cultural landscapes through efficiency analysis

Leban,

Zadnik Stirn,

Pezdevšek Malovrh

2024

Environmental Management

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One of the paramount challenges in natural resource management revolves around the delicate equilibrium between the demand for and the supply of diverse Ecosystem Services (ESs) within a cultural landscape. Recognizing the centrality of cultural landscapes to human well-being, the sustainability of these landscapes hinges upon the health and stability of ecosystems that can effectively provide the required ESs. Over the long term, the sustainable supply of ESs is constrained by the potential supply of ESs. Understanding the potential supply of ESs is crucial for averting compromises to the ecosystems within a landscape. This article introduces a novel perspective on evaluating the ESs of a landscape by means of efficiency analysis. Instead of presenting the potential supply of ESs in absolute terms, we offer a comparative analysis of ESs' relative supply to associated management costs. In principle, the efficiency of Landscape Units (LUs) is defined as the ratio of the potential supply of multiple ESs to the costs associated with land use and land cover management. The resultant efficiency maps serve as hot and cold spot maps, revealing efficient ecosystem compositions that yield multiple ESs. This composition reflects management efforts, incorporating various management costs. Forests emerge as pivotal ecosystems in landscapes, delivering the most ESs at the lowest costs. These efficiency maps offer valuable insights for regional planners, enabling them to enhance the supply of ES in inefficient LUs by studying the ecosystem structure and associated costs of the most efficient LUs.

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Investigating potential supply of ecosystem services in cultural landscapes through efficiency analysis

Leban,

Zadnik Stirn,

Pezdevšek Malovrh

2024

Environmental Management

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“…Observing such high rates of dynamics means that static maps of ES, as are used in present ES assessments (e.g. in the European Union) 5,[27][28][29][30][31] , do not provide adequate information to make well-informed management decisions [30][31][32] . Static maps are snapshots and do not account for the complex short-term dynamics of ecosystems.…”

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High rates of short-term dynamics of forest ecosystem services

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Currently, the main tools for assessing and managing ecosystem services at large scales are maps providing snapshots of their potential supply. However, many ecosystems change over short timescales, thus such maps soon become inaccurate. Here we show high rates of short-term dynamics of three key forest ecosystem services: wood production, bilberry production, and topsoil carbon storage. Almost 85% of the coldspots and 65% of the hotspots for these services had changed into a different state over a ten-year period. Wood production showed higher rates of shortterm dynamics than bilberry production and carbon storage. The high rates of dynamics mean that static snapshot ecosystem service maps provide limited information for assessing and managing multifunctional, dynamic landscapes, such as forests. We advocate that dynamic, spatially explicit tools to assess and manage ecosystem service dynamics are further developed and applied in post-2020 biodiversity and ecosystem service policy supporting frameworks.

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“…In European countries, the mapping and assessment of ESs, initiated in the context of Target 2 of the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2020, have been ongoing for several years in various ecosystem types [8]. A number of national ecosystem assessments have been carried out, comprising northern, central, and southern Europe [9][10][11][12], as well as subnational case studies from the regional (e.g., [13]) to the municipality level (e.g., [14,15]). The included ecosystem types, ecosystem services, and assessment details significantly differ among Land 2023, 12, 1836 2 of 19 the countries.…”

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Forest Inventory Data Provide Useful Information for Mapping Ecosystem Services Potential

Jūrmalis,

Bārdule,

Donis

et al. 2023

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The ecosystem services framework is a convenient approach for identifying and mapping nature’s contributions to people, and an accurate assessment of ecosystem services potential is the first step in the decision support process of well-informed land management planning. The approach we use for forest ecosystem services potential assessment in Latvia is based on the principles of the matrix model and biophysical data of the forest inventory database, and it is comparable to other assessments previously carried out in the Baltic Sea Region. The proposed approach supports spatial planning and may be integrated with assessments of other ecosystems based on the same methodological principles. The evaluation results reflect the high spatial heterogeneity of forest types in Latvia. Future work should include integrating ecosystem services flows and demand into the assessment, developing additional indicators for culturally important ecosystem services, and introducing socio-cultural valuation to account for a broader set of stakeholders and values.

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Ecosystem services mapping for detection of bundles, synergies and trade-offs: Examples from two Norwegian municipalities

Cited by 27 publications

References 85 publications

Investigating potential supply of ecosystem services in cultural landscapes through efficiency analysis

Investigating potential supply of ecosystem services in cultural landscapes through efficiency analysis

High rates of short-term dynamics of forest ecosystem services

Forest Inventory Data Provide Useful Information for Mapping Ecosystem Services Potential

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