Mapping hotspots of multiple landscape functions: a case study on farmland afforestation in Scotland

Gimona, Alessandro; Horst, Dan van der

doi:10.1007/s10980-007-9105-7

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“…Finally, a feature of our approach is that it can be used to generate broad-scale multi-functionality assessments by adding function loadings for all or selected landscape service themes. The resulting cumulative function loadings can be seen as a surrogate for multi-functionality (Lorenz and others 2001;Brandt and Vejre 2004;Gimona and van der Horst 2007).…”

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Assessing Landscape Functions with Broad-Scale Environmental Data: Insights Gained from a Prototype Development for Europe

Kienast

Bolliger

Potschin

et al. 2009

Environmental Management

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We examine the advantages and disadvantages of a methodological framework designed to analyze the poorly understood relationships between the ecosystem properties of large portions of land, and their capacities (stocks) to provide goods and services (flows). These capacities (stocks) are referred to as landscape functions. The core of our assessment is a set of expert-and literaturedriven binary links, expressing whether specific land uses or other environmental properties have a supportive or neutral role for given landscape functions. The binary links were applied to the environmental properties of 581 administrative units of Europe with widely differing environmental conditions and this resulted in a spatially explicit landscape function assessment. To check under what circumstances the binary links are able to replace complex interrelations, we compared the landscape function maps with independently generated continent-wide assessments (maps of ecosystem services or environmental parameters/ indicators). This rigorous testing revealed that for 9 out of 15 functions the straightforward binary links work satisfactorily and generate plausible geographical patterns. This conclusion holds primarily for production functions. The sensitivity of the nine landscape functions to changes in land use was assessed with four land use scenarios (IPCC SRES). It was found that most European regions maintain their capacity to provide the selected services under any of the four scenarios, although in some cases at other locations within the region. At the proposed continental scale, the selected input parameters are thus valid proxies which can be used to assess the mid-term potential of landscapes to provide goods and services.

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confidence: 99%

Assessing Landscape Functions with Broad-Scale Environmental Data: Insights Gained from a Prototype Development for Europe

Kienast

Bolliger

Potschin

et al. 2009

Environmental Management

201

153

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“…Identifying ES hotspots is a useful way to analyse spatial congruence and to help managers target interventions (Egoh et al 2008). But the threshold for defining ES hotspots is arbitrary: here, as for Gimona and van der Horst (2007), we chose the quartiles as cut-off points, but other thresholds would have led to different results on spatial congruence. Furthermore, hotspot maps convey an uncompromising message to policymakers, namely that some areas are worth conserving, while others are not.…”

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Synergies and trade-offs between ecosystem services in Costa Rica

Locatelli

Imbach

Wunder³

2013

Envir. Conserv.

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Environmental Conservation 41 (1): 27-36 C Foundation for Environmental Conservation 2013. The online version of this article is published within an open access environment subject to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike licence . The written permission of Cambridge University Press must be obtained for commercial re-use. doi:10.1017/S0376892913000234 Synergies and trade-offs between ecosystem services in Costa Rica

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“…To make better decisions, a systematic account of the relationships between ecosystem management and the generated ecosystem services is needed (de Groot et al 2010). There are recent assessments of natural capital and ecosystem services (e.g., Blashke 2005;Haines-Young et al 2006;Chan et al 2006;Naidoo and Ricketts 2006;Gimona and Van der Horst 2007;Egoh et al 2008;Meyer and Grabaum 2008;Grêt-Regamey et al 2008;Naidoo et al 2008;Raymond et al 2009). However, they are not suitable for representing services at a single location or assessing the spatial and temporal services change.…”

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Modeling hydrological ecosystem services and tradeoffs: a case study in Baiyangdian watershed, China

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Policy makers and scientists consider that land use strategies are designed to provide direct benefits to people by protecting vital ecosystem services. However, due to lack of information and evaluation methods, there is no effective and systematic tool for assessing tradeoffs between direct human benefits and ecosystem services. Land use changes influence ecosystem properties, processes and components, which are the basis for providing services. Five alternative land use scenarios (no conversion of agricultural lands, no urban expansion, agricultural expansion, forestry expansion, and riparian reforestation) were modeled for the Baiyangdian watershed, China, a densely populated, highly modified watershed with serious water shortage and pollution problems. The model InVEST (Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Tradeoffs) is designed to inform decisions about natural resource management, with an aim to align economic forces with conservation. Three ecosystem services (agricultural production, hydropower production, and water quality) were modeled to balance direct benefits and hydrological ecosystem services using InVEST. The results showed that: hydropower production was the greatest in the forestry expansion, but the lowest in agricultural expansion; agricultural production was reduced the most in forestry expansion, while retained the most in riparian reforestation. Riparian reforestation also provided the highest N and P retention and lowest N and P exportation. Riparian reforestation was the optimal land use strategy, since it protected and enhanced the vital ecosystem services without undermining direct human benefits. This research presents an initial analytical framework for integrating direct human benefits and ecosystem services in policy planning and illustrates its application. Although there are important potential tradeoffs between ecosystem services, this systematic planning framework offers a means for identifying valuable synergies between conservation and development.

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Mapping hotspots of multiple landscape functions: a case study on farmland afforestation in Scotland

Cited by 117 publications

References 34 publications

Assessing Landscape Functions with Broad-Scale Environmental Data: Insights Gained from a Prototype Development for Europe

Assessing Landscape Functions with Broad-Scale Environmental Data: Insights Gained from a Prototype Development for Europe

Synergies and trade-offs between ecosystem services in Costa Rica

Modeling hydrological ecosystem services and tradeoffs: a case study in Baiyangdian watershed, China

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