Model for quantifying the synergies between farmland biodiversity conservation and water protection at catchment scale

Helin, Janne; Hyytiäinen, Kari; Korpela, Eeva-Liisa; Kuussaari, Mikko

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2013.09.029

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“…Located in Central Europe, the headwater catchments of South Bohemia, Czech Republic are a typical example of a submontane landscape, characterized by mainly forests and meadows. Headwater streams and catchments are particularly important for provisional ecosystem services (e.g., drinking water extraction) and the protection of biodiversity (e.g., nature reserves and core zones of national parks) 20 . Tributaries act as both receptors and conveyors of landscape fluxes 21 , allowing upstream land use activity to influence the entire river continuum 22,23 .…”

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Performance of landscape composition metrics for predicting water quality in headwater catchments

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Land use is a predominant threat to the ecological integrity of streams and rivers. Understanding land use-water quality interactions is essential for the development and prioritization of management strategies and, thus, the improvement of water quality. Weighting schemes for land use have recently been employed as methods to advance the predictive power of empirical models, however, their performance has seldom been explored for various water quality parameters. In this work, multiple landscape composition metrics were applied within headwater catchments of Central Europe to investigate how weighting land use with certain combinations of spatial and topographic variables, while implementing alternate distance measures and functions, can influence predictions of water quality. The predictive ability of metrics was evaluated for eleven water quality parameters using linear regression. Results indicate that stream proximity, measured with Euclidean distance, in combination with slope or log-transformed flow accumulation were dominant factors affecting the concentrations of pH, total phosphorus, nitrite and orthophosphate phosphorus, whereas the unweighted land use composition was the most effective predictor of calcium, electrical conductivity, nitrates and total suspended solids. Therefore, both metrics are recommended when examining land use-water quality relationships in small, submontane catchments and should be applied according to individual water quality parameter.

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Performance of landscape composition metrics for predicting water quality in headwater catchments

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Bílý

et al. 2019

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“…This process can be observed in Poland, where agriculture is the dominant land use activity (46.6% of land is used in agriculture according to GUS 2015). The agricultural impact on water quality is especially important and, from this perspective, water may be treated as a preservation goal of most land management practices (Gascuel-Odoux et al 2009;Helin et al 2013;Svoboda et al 2013). In Poland, the regulation of rural landscape management in relation to water quality is a consequence of European, national and regional policies.…”

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Land use and land cover changes simulated with agent-based modelling for water conservation at catchment scale

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Ligmann-Zielińska

Zwoliński

2015

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Various factors influence the spatial and temporal patterns of land cover and land use in lakeland landscapes. Land use/cover change (LUCC) is one of the crucial factors influencing both natural processes that occur in lakelands and lakes and anthropogenic processes, which intensify these changes. Therefore, LUCC at a local and regional scale may be treated as an important geoindicator for the functioning of the lakeland landscape. Nowadays, LUCC mostly depends on different human decisions. In the existing literature, the consequences of negative changes have already been widely recognized. Conversely, in this paper, we focus on the possible positive effects of LUCC. To that end, we built an agent-based model to show how selected human decisions may positively influence lakeland landscapes and lakes. We apply the model to the Gniezno Lakeland, Poland. Based on the environmental decisions of farmers, the model demonstrates how the LUCC pattern may change in time and space and how those changes may influence freshwater quality in four individual lake catchments of the Gniezno Lakeland.

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Policy Mixes for the Provision of Agri-environmental Public Goods and Additionality: Some country experiences

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2014

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Model for quantifying the synergies between farmland biodiversity conservation and water protection at catchment scale

Cited by 4 publications

References 36 publications

Performance of landscape composition metrics for predicting water quality in headwater catchments

Performance of landscape composition metrics for predicting water quality in headwater catchments

Land use and land cover changes simulated with agent-based modelling for water conservation at catchment scale

Policy Mixes for the Provision of Agri-environmental Public Goods and Additionality: Some country experiences

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