Spatiotemporal patterns and drivers of ecosystem service supply and demand across the conterminous United States: A multiscale analysis

Sun, Xiao; Tang, Huajun; Yang, Peng; Hu, Guang; Liu, Zhenhuan; Wu, Jianguo

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.135005

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“…Our research results on ES supply correspond with ES supply-demand matrices investigated in other studies in general (see e.g., [17], [41]). These substantially support the significance of natural capital, with the highest rankings assigned to forests.…”

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confidence: 88%

“…The questionnaire survey provided additional input to assess the ecosystem services supply potential in each case study area and it also outlined the demand and local preferences for their use. The ES supply methodology is derived from the expert-based ES capacity matrix in Burkhard et al [16] and this is widely applied and tested [20,[39][40][41]. The expert-based matrix allows rapid implementation and it delivers ES evaluation results approximated by those obtained by biophysical models at the level required for assessment of multiple ES [40,42].…”

Section: Questionnaire Surveymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Perception of Ecosystem Services in Constituting Multi-Functional Landscapes in Slovakia

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Izakovičová

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Landscape provides many services for human wellbeing through its mosaic of ecosystems. Although different landscape spatial structures limit some access to these services for local residents, their demand for landscape benefits creates a crucial component in landscape planning. Herein, we evaluate the ecosystem service supply from landscape structures in four different areas of Slovakia and we identify the public preferences for these services. This evaluation was assisted by expert-based ecosystem services (ES) matrix assessment and feedback from experts and key local stakeholders. The associated land cover assessment revealed that although forests are the most important for ES delivery, followed by extensive agricultural mosaics, cultural services have the highest average supply value. In contrast, the experts and local stakeholders considered that provisioning services were the most important of all ES groups because of products available from arable land. The overall public awareness of benefits provided by nature proved relatively high, and this is a good sign for the development of multi-functional landscapes. The comparison of study sites revealed that even stakeholders living in intensively used land, with its overall low ES supply, assessed ES as very important in general. The general public could therefore be included in environmental planning to promote a more multi-functional landscape. In addition, the analysis herein will communicate gained insights to the local planners and decision-makers and confirm the importance of this ES participatory approach using top-down methodology. This may require the following measures in Slovakia: establishing an interdisciplinary group of experts for regular assessment of strategic landscape planning documents and regulatory instruments, developing key directives which establish well-balanced participatory procedures, improving open local government, and supporting down-scaled implementation of integrated landscape planning in cooperation with local action groups.

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Perception of Ecosystem Services in Constituting Multi-Functional Landscapes in Slovakia

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“…In the US, as in other parts of the world, projected changes in land cover and population will have major consequences on the supply and demand for multiple ES 23 . As such, the distribution of ES benefits to various groups of beneficiaries could shift dramatically.…”

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Projected losses of ecosystem services in the US disproportionately affect non-white and lower-income populations

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Addressing how ecosystem services (ES) are distributed among groups of people is critical for making conservation and environmental policy-making more equitable. Here, we evaluate the distribution and equity of changes in ES benefits across demographic and socioeconomic groups in the United States (US) between 2020 and 2100. Specifically, we use land cover and population projections to model potential shifts in the supply, demand, and benefits of the following ES: provision of clean air, protection against a vector-borne disease (West Nile virus), and crop pollination. Across the US, changes in ES benefits are unevenly distributed among socioeconomic and demographic groups and among rural and urban communities, but are relatively uniform across geographic regions. In general, non-white, lower-income, and urban populations disproportionately bear the burden of declines in ES benefits. This is largely driven by the conversion of forests and wetlands to cropland and urban land cover in counties where these populations are expected to grow. In these locations, targeted land use policy interventions are required to avoid exacerbating inequalities already present in the US.

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“…Computed correlation coefficients in the GWR model quantitatively express the spatial relationships at each location. Geographically weighted regression models are widely used in urban landscape pattern analysis [35,37,38], PM 2.5 concentration estimation [39], carbon emissions [40], and ecosystem services [41,42]. Sawut et al [43] also estimated the heavy metal arsenic (As) contents of an open-pit coal mine in soil on the basis of GWR.…”

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Spatial Heterogeneity of Vegetation Response to Mining Activities in Resource Regions of Northwestern China

Xie

Wang

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Aggregated mining development has direct and indirect impacts on vegetation changes. This impact shows spatial differences due to the complex influence of multiple mines, which is a common issue in resource regions. To estimate the spatial heterogeneity of vegetation response to mining activities, we coupled vegetation changes and mining development through a geographically weighted regression (GWR) model for three cumulative periods between 1999 and 2018 in integrated resource regions of northwestern China. Vegetation changes were monitored by Sen’s slope and the Mann–Kendall test according to a total of 72 Landsat images. Spatial distribution of mining development was quantified, due to four land-use maps in 2000, 2005, 2010, and 2017. The results showed that 80% of vegetation in the study area experienced different degrees of degradation, more serious in the overlapping areas of multiple mines and mining areas. The scope of influence for single mines on vegetation shrunk by about 48%, and the mean coefficients increased by 20%, closer to mining areas. The scope of influence for multiple mines on vegetation gradually expanded to 86% from the outer edge to the inner overlapping areas of mining areas, where the mean coefficients increased by 92%. The correlation between elevation and vegetation changes varied according to the average elevation of the total mining areas. Ultimately, the available ecological remediation should be systematically considered for local conditions and mining consequences.

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Spatiotemporal patterns and drivers of ecosystem service supply and demand across the conterminous United States: A multiscale analysis

Cited by 77 publications

References 87 publications

Perception of Ecosystem Services in Constituting Multi-Functional Landscapes in Slovakia

Perception of Ecosystem Services in Constituting Multi-Functional Landscapes in Slovakia

Projected losses of ecosystem services in the US disproportionately affect non-white and lower-income populations

Spatial Heterogeneity of Vegetation Response to Mining Activities in Resource Regions of Northwestern China

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