Land conservation can mitigate freshwater ecosystem services degradation due to climate change in a semiarid catchment: The case of the Portneuf River catchment, Idaho, USA

Huang, Li; Liao, Felix Haifeng; Lohse, Kathleen A.; Larson, Danelle M.; Fragkias, Michail; Lybecker, Donna L.; Baxter, Colden V.

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.09.260

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“…Altering land cover is a direct and effective way of adapting to climate change. Land protection can mitigate the degradation of ecosystem services caused by climate change [45]. The Chinese government has implemented many conservation projects and measures that have played an active role in ecosystem protection [46].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…To assess the relative impacts of climate change and land cover change on water retention, we implemented scenario analysis using climate and land cover data as independent variables, similar to the residual trend method [45]. However, climate factors influence not only the hydrological cycle through their impact on precipitation and potential evapotranspiration but, also, watershed characteristics and land cover patterns through the effect of runoff [49].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Regional Impacts of Climate and Land Cover on Ecosystem Water Retention Services in the Upper Yangtze River Basin

Guo

2019

Sustainability

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Water retention is an important factor in ecosystem services, owing to its relationships with climate and land-cover change; however, quantifying the independent and combined impacts of these variables remains a challenge. We use scenario analysis and the InVEST model to assess individual or combined impacts of climate and land cover on water retention in the Upper Yangtze River Basin. Water retention decreased from 1986 to 2015 at a rate of 2.97 mm/10a in response to increasing precipitation (3.94 mm/10a) and potential evapotranspiration (16.47 mm/10a). The rate of water retention change showed regional variability (from 68 to −18 mm/a), with some eastern regions experiencing an increase and most other regions experiencing a decrease. Farmland showed the highest decrease (10,772 km2), with land mainly converted into forest (58.17%) and shrub land (21.13%) from 2000 to 2015. The impact of climate change (−12.02 mm) on water retention generally was greater than the impact of land cover change (−4.14 mm), at the basin scale. Among 22 climate zones, 77.27% primarily were impacted by climate change; 22.73% primarily were impacted by land cover change. Our results demonstrate that both individualistic and integrated approaches toward climate and vegetation management is necessary to mitigate the impacts of climate change on water resources.

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Section: Adaptive Managementmentioning

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Section: Limitationsmentioning

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Regional Impacts of Climate and Land Cover on Ecosystem Water Retention Services in the Upper Yangtze River Basin

Guo

2019

Sustainability

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“…Process-based modelling approaches are generally preferred to assess climate change impacts and define decision-making strategies for adaptation in relation to fES (Runting et al 2017;Momblanch et al 2019a). Most modelling studies that assess adaptation interventions in the landscape (Bangash et al 2013;Dunford et al 2015;Fan et al 2016;Liu et al 2017;Mandle et al 2017;Huang et al 2019;Underwood et al 2019) with the intention to offset negative climate change impacts overlook river fES and their links to landscape services. This limits their capacity to support holistic solutions.…”

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confidence: 99%

Enhancing production and flow of freshwater ecosystem services in a managed Himalayan river system under uncertain future climate

Momblanch

Beevers

Srinivasalu³

et al. 2020

Climatic Change

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Future climate change will likely impact the multiple freshwater ecosystem services (fES) provided by catchments through their landscapes and river systems. However, there is high spatio-temporal uncertainty on those impacts linked to climate change uncertainty and the natural and anthropogenic interdependencies of water management systems. This study identifies current and future spatial patterns of fES production in a highly managed water resource system in northern India to inform the design and assessment of plausible adaptation measures to enhance fES production in the catchment under uncertain climate change. A water resource systems modelling approach is used to evaluate fES across the full range of plausible future scenarios, to identify the (worst-case) climate change scenarios triggering the greatest impacts and assess the capacity of adaptation to enhance fES. Results indicate that the current and future states of the fES depend on the spatial patterns of climate change and the impacts of infrastructure management on river flows. Natural zones deliver more regulating and cultural services than anthropized areas, although they are more climate-sensitive. The implementation of a plausible adaptation strategy only manages to slightly enhance fES in the system with respect to no adaptation. These results demonstrate that water resource systems models are powerful tools to capture complex system dependencies and inform the design of robust catchment management measures. They also highlight that mitigation and more ambitious adaptation strategies are needed to offset climate change impacts in highly climate-sensitive catchments.

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“…A similar situation has been depicted across the globe. For example, Guo et al (2008) reported a similar situation in the Poyang Lake basin, China, Li et al (2007) in Lake Chad Basin, West Africa, Elias et al (2019) in Ethiopia Central Rift Valley, Kafumbata et al (2014) in Lake Chilwa basin, Malawi, Talbot et al (2018) in Tonle Sap Lake in Cambodia, and DasGupta and Shaw (2013) in Southern Part of Andaman Island in India, Tennessee and Cumberland River Basins and Portneuf River catchment in the United States of America (USA) (Thieme et al, 2016;Huang et al, 2019). National and regional policy frameworks have acknowledged the effort to restore the degraded inland freshwater shallow lake ecosystem as a crucial activity towards achieving United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (IPBES, 2019) such as no poverty (SDG 1), zero hunger (SDG 2), good health and well-being (SDG 3), clean water (SDG 6), clean energy (SDG 7), responsible consumption and production (SDG 8), climate action (SDG 13), life below water (SDG 14) and life on land (SDG 15) (UN 2019; Aasetre et al, 2021).…”

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Willingness to pay for the ecological restoration of an inland freshwater shallow lake: case of Lake Malombe, Malawi

Makwinja

Mengistou

Kaunda

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Heliyon

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Lake Malombe is ranked among the most vulnerable inland freshwater shallow lakes in Malawi. The lake has lost over US$79.83 million ecosystem service values from 1999 to 2019 due to rapid population growth, increased poverty, landscape transformation, and over exploitation-hampering the effort to achieve United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in particular, life underwater (SDG 14), life on land (SDG 15), climate action (SDG 13), and no poverty (SDG 1) and Aichi Biodiversity Targets. In line with the 2021-2030 United Nations' Declaration on massive upscaling of the ecosystems restoration effort, this study applied the contingent valuation method (CVM) and binary logistic regression model to determine the public's willingness to pay (WTP) for ecosystem restoration and the influencing factors. The aim was to integrate science into policy framework to achieve a sustainable flow of ecosystem services (ESs). Qualitative data were collected by employing focus group discussion, key informant interviews, and field observation. Quantitative data were collected using structured questionnaires covering 420 households. The results revealed that 56% of the respondents were willing to pay an average of US$28.42/household/year. These respondents believed that the initiative would improve lake ESs, fish biodiversity, income level, water quality and mitigate climate change impact. Age, gender, literacy, income, social trust, institutional trust, access to extension services, period stay in the area, household distance from the lake, lake ecological dynamics impact, having the hope of reviving the lake health ecological status, perception of having lake ecological restoration program, participation in lake restoration program, access to food from the

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Land conservation can mitigate freshwater ecosystem services degradation due to climate change in a semiarid catchment: The case of the Portneuf River catchment, Idaho, USA

Cited by 27 publications

References 66 publications

Regional Impacts of Climate and Land Cover on Ecosystem Water Retention Services in the Upper Yangtze River Basin

Regional Impacts of Climate and Land Cover on Ecosystem Water Retention Services in the Upper Yangtze River Basin

Enhancing production and flow of freshwater ecosystem services in a managed Himalayan river system under uncertain future climate

Willingness to pay for the ecological restoration of an inland freshwater shallow lake: case of Lake Malombe, Malawi

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