How do land-use legacies affect ecosystem services in United States cultural landscapes?

Ziter, Carly; Graves, Rose A.; Turner, Monica G.

doi:10.1007/s10980-017-0545-4

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“…), and assessing the degree to which land‐use legacies may be unappreciated but important influences on ES (Ziter et al. ). However , studies of urban ES rarely address the high spatial heterogeneity and complex land‐use histories of cities, particularly when considering multiple services (Gaston et al.…”

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Current and historical land use influence soil‐based ecosystem services in an urban landscape

Ziter

Turner

2018

Ecological Applications

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Urban landscapes are increasingly recognized as providing important ecosystem services (ES) to their occupants. Yet, urban ES assessments often ignore the complex spatial heterogeneity and land-use history of cities. Soil-based services may be particularly susceptible to land-use legacy effects. We studied indicators of three soil-based ES, carbon storage, water quality regulation, and runoff regulation, in a historically agricultural urban landscape and asked (1) How do ES indicators vary with contemporary land cover and time since development? (2) Do ES indicators vary primarily among land-cover classes, within land-cover classes, or within sites? (3) What is the relative contribution of urban land-cover classes to potential citywide ES provision? We measured biophysical indicators (soil carbon [C], available phosphorus [P], and saturated hydraulic conductivity [K ]) in 100 sites across five land-cover classes, spanning an ~125-year gradient of time since development within each land-cover class. Potential for ES provision was substantial in urban green spaces, including developed land. Runoff regulation services (high K ) were highest in forests; water quality regulation (low P) was highest in open spaces and grasslands; and open spaces and developed land (e.g., residential yards) had the highest C storage. In developed land covers, both C and P increased with time since development, indicating effects of historical land-use on contemporary ES and trade-offs between two important ES. Among-site differences accounted for a high proportion of variance in soil properties in forests, grasslands, and open space, while residential areas had high within-site variability, underscoring the leverage city residents have to improve urban ES provision. Developed land covers contributed most ES supply at the citywide scale, even after accounting for potential impacts of impervious surfaces. Considering the full mosaic of urban green space and its history is needed to estimate the kinds and magnitude of ES provided in cities, and to augment regional ES assessments that often ignore or underestimate urban ES supply.

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“…Understanding such legacies is central to understanding the extent that ES can be inferred from contemporary landscape pattern, as well as how ES and relationships between them may shift over time as landscapes continue to change (Ziter et al. ).…”

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Current and historical land use influence soil‐based ecosystem services in an urban landscape

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Turner

2018

Ecological Applications

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“…Her notable works include the importance of scaling when considering landscape patterns [57,58], assessments of biogeochemical cycling following wildfires [59], and assessing the impacts of fires on landscape dynamics such as within Yellowstone National Park [60][61][62]. Her recent works have included a focus on ecosystem services [63,64] and contributions to a synthesis calling for more adaptation to wildfires in western North American forests [14].…”

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Recognizing Women Leaders in Fire Science

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Fire

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Across the breadth of fire science disciplines, women are leaders in fire research and development. We want to acknowledge some of these leaders to promote diversity across our disciplines. In Fire, we are also happy to announce a new Special Collection, through which we will continue to acknowledge current and future Diversity Leaders in Fire Science by inviting contributions from the leaders in this editorial, among others.Keywords: leadership; women in science The Need to Recognize Women Leaders in Fire ScienceIn 1965, Alice Rossi asked a fundamental question: "Why so few women in science?" [1]. It has long been recognized that women are underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and mathematical (STEM) disciplines, with a substantial dialogue in the literature as to the impacts of such underrepresentation. As representation has increased, the debate now focuses on additional questions of equity in leadership, funding, advancement, and mechanisms of support for female scientists. These questions are embedded in three foundational concepts: (1) all scientists, regardless of gender, deserve equal access to opportunities; (2) the smartest and most talented people (regardless of gender) should be conducting scientific research, such that the most critical breakthroughs and contributions are realized; and (3) to understand and solve complex fire science problems, a broad diversity of perspectives, modes of problem attack, and epistemologies are needed [2]. We also acknowledge the need to recognize other underrepresented voices in the fire science community, such as indigenous and racial minorities, individuals with disabilities, and the LGBTQIA community, who all bring different ways of doing and knowing to science.The reader may understandably ask: Why this journal? In fire science, there is a distinct and critical need to increase the recognition of women. Natural hazards research more broadly has widely recognized that women are more vulnerable to natural disasters, and female scientists in other natural hazard disciplines have brought an important perspective to the research that facilitates understanding and reducing such gender disparities. An equivalent gender dialogue does not yet exist in wildfire science but will be necessary to reduce vulnerabilities (e.g., smoke impacts on health, post-traumatic stress disorder following evacuation) and also understand the unique perspectives women have on wildfire as an ecological process. For example, women globally bear much of the childrearing duties; a key fire science question one might ask is whether acceptance of prescribed fire by communities is gendered based on perceptions of impacts to children? The reader may also question the mixed genders of the authors of this editorial. Many proponents of increased recognition of women in science have highlighted that a major part of the problem has been that not enough male allies stand up publicly for their female colleagues, in part because some are embarrassed, fearful, or even feel, and are so...

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“…Ziter et al (2017) conceptualize three processes leading to time-lag effects between land-use change and ecosystem service supply, i.e. slow ecological processes governing ecosystem service supply, time lags between land-use change and ecosystem response, and threshold relationships.…”

Section: Landscape Research On and For Societymentioning

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“…In a study focusing on several types of US landscapes, Ziter et al (2017) conclude that investigating ecological effects of urban abandonment, a process visible in Detroit, Michigan and elsewhere deserves high research priority. This process did not show up on the list of processes responsible for changes in cultural landscapes across Europe found by Bürgi et al (2017), i.e.…”

Section: Landscape Research On and For Societymentioning

confidence: 99%