Mapping ecosystem services potential in Lithuania

Depellegrin, Daniel; Pereira, Paulo; Misiūnė, Ieva; Vigl, Lukas Egarter

doi:10.1080/13504509.2016.1146176

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“…Expert favourably scored low forest and peatbogs and high-Andean wetlands, in a certain way expressing comparable opinions with specialists from around the world 33,37,38 . On the contrary, urban zones were scored as low as possible for many of the experts, coinciding with results from matrix model international studies 18,33,39,40 .…”

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confidence: 76%

Land-change dynamics and ecosystem service trends across the central high-Andean Puna

Madrigal-Martínez

Garcia

2019

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Mountain landscapes provide multiple ecosystem services that are continually vulnerable to land-change. These complex variations over space and time need to be clustered and explained to develop efficient and sustainable land management processes. We completed a spatiotemporal analysis that describes how different patterns of 6 land-change dynamics impact on the supply of 7 ecosystem services over a period of 13 years and across 25 provinces in the central high-Andean Puna of Peru. The appraisal describes: (1) how clusters of land-change dynamics are linked to ecosystem service bundles; (2) which are the dominant land-change dynamics that influence changes in ecosystem service bundles and (3) how multiple ecosystem service provision and relationships vary over space and time. Our analysis addressed agricultural intensification, agricultural de-intensification, natural processes and deforestation as the most critical land-change dynamics across the central high-Andean region over time. Our results show that most of the provinces were mainly described by a small set of land-change dynamics that configured four types of ecosystem service bundles. Moreover, our study demonstrated that different patterns of land-change dynamics can have the same influence on the ecosystem service bundle development, and transformation of large areas are not necessarily equivalent to high variations in ecosystem service supply. Overall, this study provides an approach to facilitate the incorporation of ES at multiple scales allowing an easy interpretation of the region development that can contribute to land management actions and policy decisions.

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confidence: 76%

Land-change dynamics and ecosystem service trends across the central high-Andean Puna

Madrigal-Martínez

Garcia

2019

Sci Rep

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“…Thirdly, the ES bundles of administrative unit could provide information at the decision-making level. A few studies have used k-mean clustering [30,31,33], principal component analysis [72,73], self-organizing map [74], and multivariate regression tree [75] to identify ES bundles. The selection of method in bundle studies were mainly based on the structure of ESs data [32].…”

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Integrating Biophysical and Sociocultural Methods for Identifying the Relationships between Ecosystem Services and Land Use Change: Insights from an Oasis Area

Wei

Fan

et al. 2019

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Identifying the relationships between ecosystem services (ESs) and land use change is crucial for ES management and sustainable regional development. The Manas region in China has witnessed dramatic reclamation activities in its desert areas that resulted in ecological problems. The changes in eight ESs, including crop production (CP), livestock production (LP), soil conservation (SC), water yield (WY), sand fixation (SF), carbon sequestration (CS), habitat quality (HQ), and nature landscape recreation (NLR), were investigated by using biophysical and questionnaire methods. At the regional scale, provisioning services (i.e., CP and LP) showed some performance improvements, whereas most of the regulating services (i.e., WY, CS, and HQ) along with NLR showed a performance decline. Five ES bundles—Upper Mountain, Foothill, Oasis, Oasis–Desert Transition, and Desert bundle—were identified at the township scale via k-means clustering. From 2000 to 2015, the Oasis bundle sprawled as a result of oasisization, whereas the Oasis–Desert Transition and Foothill bundles decreased. We performed a questionnaire survey and a statistical analysis to identify the causes behind the performance improvement/decline of these ESs and found that the land use changes in the Manas region had a significant impact on these services. More than 50% of the survey respondents identified land use changes as the primary driver of the changes in some ESs (i.e., CP, CS, HQ, and NLR). In the correlation and partial correlation analyses, oasisization was significantly and positively correlated with CP but was negatively correlated with WY, CS, HQ, and NLR. We enhanced the reliability of our conclusions by integrating biophysical and sociocultural methods into our investigation of ES and land use change. In view of the huge losses in regulating and cultural services, the Manas region should limit its desert reclamation activities to control the expansion of its oasis and to improve the quality of its cropland. Our results can help formulate effective ES management and land use decisions in the Manas region or similar areas.

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“…Understanding interactions between ES is a critical step towards assessing the drivers of landscape change and how they influence the potential, flow and demand of ES (Depellegrin et al 2016). Our results showed trade-offs between regulating and cultural services versus provisioning services such as "Crops", "Livestock" and "Fodder".…”

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“…Correlations among landscape properties (elevation, slope and aspect) and the ES capacity were also tested. A Principal Component Analysis (PCA) for 29 variables that correspond to the examined ES was carried out in order to group the variables and specify the synergies and trade-offs between ES as proposed by RaudseppHearne et al (2010) and tested by Depellegrin et al (2016). All statistical analysis was performed using SPSS v. 21 (IBM Corp 2012).…”

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Ecosystem Service capacity is higher in areas of multiple designation types

Nikolaidou¹,

Votsi²,

Sgardelis³

et al. 2017

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The implementation of the Ecosystem Service (ES) concept into practice might be a challenging task as it has to take into account previous "traditional" policies and approaches that have evaluated nature and biodiversity differently. Among them the Habitat (92/43/EC) and Bird Directives (79/409/EC), the Water Framework Directive (2000/60/EC), and the Noise Directive (2002/49/EC) have led to the evaluation/designation of areas in Europe with different criteria. In this study our goal was to understand how the ES capacity of an area is related to its designation and if areas with multiple designations have higher capacity in providing ES.We selected four catchments in Greece with a great variety of characteristics covering over 25% of the national territory. Inside the catchments we assessed the ES capacity (following the methodology of Burkhard et al. 2009) of areas designated as Natura 2000 sites, Quiet areas and Wetlands or Water bodies and found those areas that have multiple designations. Data were analyzed by GLM to reveal differences regarding the ES capacity among the different types of areas. We also investigated by PCA synergies and trade-offs among different kinds of ES and tested for correlations among landscape properties, such as elevation, aspect and slope and the ES potential. Our results show that areas with different types or multiple designations have a different capacity in providing ES. Areas of one designation type (Protected or Quiet Areas) had in general intermediate scores in most ES but scores were higher compared to areas with no designation, which displayed stronger capacity in provisioning services. Among Protected Areas and Quiet Areas the latter scored better in general. Areas that combined both designation types (Protected and Quiet Areas) showed the highest capacity in 13 out of 29 ES, that were mostly linked with natural and forest ecosystems. We found significant synergies among most regulating, supporting and cultural ES which in turn display tradeoffs with provisioning services. The different ES are spatially related and display strong correlation with landscape properties, such as elevation and slope.We suggest that the designation status of an area can be used as an alternative tool for environmental policy, indicating the capacity for ES provision. Multiple designations of areas can be used as proxies for locating ES "hotspots". This integration of "traditional" evaluation and designation and the "newer" ES concept forms a time-and cost-effective way to be adopted by stakeholders and policy-makers in order to start complying with new standards and demands for nature conservation and environmental management.

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Mapping ecosystem services potential in Lithuania

Cited by 53 publications

References 51 publications

Land-change dynamics and ecosystem service trends across the central high-Andean Puna

Land-change dynamics and ecosystem service trends across the central high-Andean Puna

Integrating Biophysical and Sociocultural Methods for Identifying the Relationships between Ecosystem Services and Land Use Change: Insights from an Oasis Area

Ecosystem Service capacity is higher in areas of multiple designation types

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