Investigating biodiversity trajectories using scenarios – Lessons from two contrasting agricultural landscapes

Lindborg, Regina; Stenseke, Marie; Cousins, Sara A. O.; Bengtsson, Jan; Berg, Åke; Gustafsson, T.; Sjödin, N. Erik; Eriksson, Ove

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2009.09.018

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“…These may help to identify and guide decisions, policies, and other instruments that could lead to desired future landscapes (Loupa Ramos 2010). However, the discussions at the workshops confirmed that local stakeholders have disparate visions for cultural landscapes (Lindborg et al 2009) and each possible future produces beneficiaries and losers.…”

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“…Although stakeholders' valuations of different scenario outcomes have frequently been examined (e.g., Lindborg et al 2009), few studies have addressed, through exploratory scenarios, how local actors perceive the impacts of landscape changes on ecosystem services provision, and how they define their scope for action against the multitude of landscape drivers.…”

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Exploring Futures of Ecosystem Services in Cultural Landscapes through Participatory Scenario Development in the Swabian Alb, Germany.

Plieninger¹,

Bieling²,

Ohnesorge³

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Section: Drivers and Outcomes Of Alternative Landscape Futuresmentioning

confidence: 95%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring Futures of Ecosystem Services in Cultural Landscapes through Participatory Scenario Development in the Swabian Alb, Germany.

Plieninger¹,

Bieling²,

Ohnesorge³

et al. 2013

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“…However, whether such habitats over time may be assigned values related to heritage and aesthetics is an open question. However, results from interview studies suggest that people's appreciation of landscapes is much related to the fact that the landscape is inhabited, harbors agriculture and has the capacity to sustain people's living [71,72,91]. This indicates that values related to heritage continue to be produced [77].…”

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“…However, for most people, an interest in rare plants, fungi and insects is likely to be quite limited, and even for the farmers actually managing the semi-natural pastures and meadows, other motivators are more important. Interview studies conclude that continuing subsidies for keeping grazing regimes are essential, but foremost, these studies suggest that values related to "beauty", "place and identity" and "cultural heritage" are the strongest motivators [71,72]. As remarked by Antrop ([25]; p. 21): " .…”

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“…This means that the ordinary everyday landscape experienced by most people does not include such areas, although traces such as individual old trees, sometimes with signs of previous pollarding, may be encountered. Although ordinary present-day agricultural landscapes are generally less diverse biologically as compared to old cultural landscapes [90], interview studies suggest that even such landscapes, transformed by modernization, may be highly valued and appreciated by people [72]. One study concluded that people in Sweden often regard agricultural landscapes as "nature" [91].…”

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Historical and Current Niche Construction in an Anthropogenic Biome: Old Cultural Landscapes in Southern Scandinavia

Eriksson

2016

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Conceptual advances in niche construction theory provide new perspectives and a tool-box for studies of human-environment interactions mediating what is termed anthropogenic biomes. This theory is useful also for studies on how anthropogenic biomes are perceived and valued. This paper addresses these topics using an example: "old cultural landscapes" in Scandinavia, i.e., landscapes formed by a long, dynamic and continuously changing history of management. Today, remnant habitats of this management history, such as wooded pastures and meadows, are the focus of conservation programs, due to their rich biodiversity and cultural and aesthetic values. After a review of historical niche construction processes, the paper examines current niche construction affecting these old cultural landscapes. Features produced by historical niche construction, e.g., landscape composition and species richness, are in the modern society reinterpreted to become values associated with beauty and heritage and species' intrinsic values. These non-utilitarian motivators now become drivers of new niche construction dynamics, manifested as conservation programs. The paper also examines the possibility to maintain and create new habitats, potentially associated with values emanating from historical landscapes, but in transformed and urbanized landscapes.

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How spatial scale shapes the generation and management of multiple ecosystem services

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Abstract. The spatial extent of ecological processes has consequences for the generation of ecosystem services related to them. However, management often fails to consider issues of scale when targeting ecological processes underpinning ecosystem services generation. Here, we present a framework for conceptualizing how the amount and spatial scale (here discussed in terms of extent) of management interventions alter interactions among multiple ecosystem services. First, we identify four types of responses of ecosystem service generation: linear, exponential, saturating, and sigmoid, and how these are related to the amount of management intervention at a particular spatial scale. Second, using examples from multiple ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes, we examine how the shape of these relationships can vary with the spatial scale at which the management interventions are implemented. Third, we examine the resulting scale-dependent consequences for trade-offs and synergies between ecosystem services as a consequence of interventions. Finally, to inform guidelines for management of multiple ecosystem services in real landscapes, we end with a discussion linking the theoretical relationships with how landscape configurations and placement of interventions can alter the scale at which synergies and trade-offs among services occur.

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Investigating biodiversity trajectories using scenarios – Lessons from two contrasting agricultural landscapes

Cited by 23 publications

References 43 publications

Exploring Futures of Ecosystem Services in Cultural Landscapes through Participatory Scenario Development in the Swabian Alb, Germany.

Exploring Futures of Ecosystem Services in Cultural Landscapes through Participatory Scenario Development in the Swabian Alb, Germany.

Historical and Current Niche Construction in an Anthropogenic Biome: Old Cultural Landscapes in Southern Scandinavia

How spatial scale shapes the generation and management of multiple ecosystem services

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