High Spatial-Temporal Resolution Data across Large Scales Are Needed to Transform Our Understanding of Ecosystem Services

Willcock, Simon; Martínez‐López, Javier; Dandy, Norman; Bullock, James M.

doi:10.3390/land10070759

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“…Ref. [45] provide insight for integrating sanitation ecosystem services into the landscape decision framework.…”

Section: Recognising Undervalued Landscape Services In Landscape Deci...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Recognising and preserving undervalued landscapes: While most categories of benefits and ecosystem services delivered by landscapes are well appreciated in the reviewed studies, there are, however, certain categories of benefits and ecosystem services that are less appreciated [41,45,46]. In this regard, one of the emerging dominant themes on the drivers of landscape decisions targets these undervalued landscape benefits and ecosystem services.…”

Section: Awareness Of Human Impact On Ecosystem Servicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The undervalued landscape benefits and ecosystem services that are driving research interests and landscape decisions include sanitation services [46], temporal headwater services [41], and cultural services [7,18,35]. In line with Goal 6 of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which recognises the importance of ensuring the availability and sustainable management of sanitation, few of the reviewed project outputs target the management of landscape sanitation services [45]. Conventionally, engineered systems have been used to manage human waste; however, the approach of nature-based-solution sanitation services is receiving more policy attention.…”

Section: Awareness Of Human Impact On Ecosystem Servicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Evidence Synthesis towards a Holistic Landscape Decision Framework: Insight from the Landscape Decisions Programme

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The development of a decision framework for landscape governance and management has become one of the prioritised policy instruments for actualising policy objectives related to agri-food systems, biodiversity conservation, nature restoration, environmental management, climate change mitigation and adaptation, net-zero greenhouse gas emissions, and the transition to renewable energy supplies. However, the landscape lens in policy making is challenging because of the diverse landscape archetypes, environmental problems, and diverging policy targets that it must address. This highlights the importance of having a robust, evidence-based landscape decision framework. To address this issue, this study undertook a transdisciplinary synthesis of research outputs from the Landscape Decisions Programme (LDP). This study compiles and synthesises outputs from the LDP projects in the context of the relevant literature to develop an understanding of the relationships among the emerging evidence with respect to decision making for sustainable and multifunctional landscapes. The synthesis identified six themes that define the drivers of landscape decisions, and four themes that define the dominant methodological approaches used to generate evidence for landscape decisions. The emergent themes from the synthesis were distilled into five principles that can be used as a basis for the development of a holistic landscape decision framework.

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“…Ref. [45] provide insight for integrating sanitation ecosystem services into the landscape decision framework.…”

Section: Recognising Undervalued Landscape Services In Landscape Deci...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Awareness Of Human Impact On Ecosystem Servicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“…Such data do not necessarily have to be cardinal figures but can also be ordinal or (least meaningful but easiest to derive) nominal metrics. In many cases, indicators will have to be based on spatially explicit assessments, a rapidly developing field, but with still urgent research needs [27,28].…”

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Multidimensional Ecosystem Mapping: Towards a More Comprehensive Spatial Assessment of Nature’s Contributions to People in France

2023

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Ecosystems are experiencing significant pressure from human activities, with 1 million species at risk of extinction. This is threatening to undermine the resilience of ecosystems, which provide multiple benefits to support human existence and are essential for the support of life on Earth. A number of conceptual frameworks have been developed as a guide for the assessment of ecosystem services (ESs) and nature’s contributions to people (NCPs), including Millennium Ecosystems Assessment, The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity report, France’s National Ecosystems Assessment, the Common International Classification of Ecosystem Services, and the Global Assessment of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. In this paper, we compare the existing conceptual frameworks for the assessment of ESs and NCPs and derive a unified structural framework. Several indicators for characterizing the ESs/NCPs provided are selected and integrated through normalization. On this basis, and enriched by a number of culture-specific indicators, we conduct a mapping exercise illustrating the ES/NCP provision for the whole of France in a spatially explicit form based on a 1 × 1 km scale. Finally, we generate integrated maps depicting distribution patterns of different services and contributions across the landscapes of France focusing on economic, social and ecological dimensions. The results indicate that a non-monetary assessment of the complexity and diversity of NCPs is feasible and presents tangible advantages as compared to monetary frameworks. The paper concludes that provisioning, regulating and cultural services and contributions are geographically unevenly distributed and further analysis is required to assess the degree of complementarity, feedback loops and tipping points among different services. Our pilot research clearly illustrated the feasibility of conducting a highly disaggregated multidimensional assessment of ESs/NCPs at the national scale to inform decision making.

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A review of machine learning and big data applications in addressing ecosystem service research gaps

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2022

Ecosystem Services

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High Spatial-Temporal Resolution Data across Large Scales Are Needed to Transform Our Understanding of Ecosystem Services

Abstract: Many assessments of ecosystem services (ESs; nature’s contribution to people [...]

Cited by 4 publications

References 40 publications

Evidence Synthesis towards a Holistic Landscape Decision Framework: Insight from the Landscape Decisions Programme

Evidence Synthesis towards a Holistic Landscape Decision Framework: Insight from the Landscape Decisions Programme

Multidimensional Ecosystem Mapping: Towards a More Comprehensive Spatial Assessment of Nature’s Contributions to People in France

A review of machine learning and big data applications in addressing ecosystem service research gaps

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