Symbolic species as a cultural ecosystem service in the European Alps: insights and open issues

Schirpke, Uta; Meisch, Claude

doi:10.1007/s10980-018-0628-x

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“…Bears and wolf are indeed icons of wilderness (Tattoni et al 2017a) and their names are still a popular choice for hotels and restaurants, a recognised index of their cultural value (Schirpke et al 2018).…”

Section: Perception Of the Speciesmentioning

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Nomen omen. Toponyms predict recolonization and extinction patterns for large carnivores

Tattoni¹

2019

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The names given to places are a legacy of the past distribution of animal and plant species. The hypothesis tested in this work is that the density of toponyms can be used to predict the range of two large and charismatic species over time: the wolf and the brown bear in Italy. Kernel density maps of the toponyms were created and different thresholds of density were overlapped with the present and the historical ranges for both species. The density level maps were tested with the Kappa statistics against available historical ranges for both species. The pattern of the density in toponyms overlapped with the pattern of contraction and expansion reported in literature for both species over time. The minimum historical distributions of wolves and brown bears occurred at the highest densities of toponyms (95% isopleth value) and, overall, the various kernels thresholds showed an excellent agreement with the historical maps with an average Kappa of 0.84 ± 0.5.

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Section: Perception Of the Speciesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Nomen omen. Toponyms predict recolonization and extinction patterns for large carnivores

Tattoni¹

2019

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“…Other approaches have used expert group evaluation to assess symbolic species for cultural services provision, for instance, in European Alps [9], with relevance because the human perceptions were considered. In the future, the combination of the two approaches might be a reasonable option for modeling cultural services through the habitat of iconic species.…”

Section: Habitat Suitability For the Iconic Species Iris Boissierimentioning

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“…Mountains are often classified as protected areas, holding an essential role in the conservation of natural and cultural heritage and in the supply of ecosystem services. Tourism activities, especially those based on agro-tourism, eco-tourism, and wildlife (in particular symbolic species) in protected mountain areas, has been increasing in the last decades [9]. Several studies have shown that existing networks of protected areas supply considerable quantities of ecosystem services.…”

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Ecosystem Services in a Protected Mountain Range of Portugal: Satellite-Based Products for State and Trend Analysis

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Mountains are facing strong environmental pressures, which may jeopardize the supply of various ecosystem services. For sustainable land management, ecosystem services and their supporting functions should thus be evaluated and monitored. Satellite products have been receiving growing attention for monitoring ecosystem functioning, mainly due to their increasing temporal and spatial resolutions. Here, we aim to illustrate the high potential of satellite products, combined with ancillary in situ and statistical data, to monitor the current state and trend of ecosystem services in the Peneda-Gerês National Park, a protected mountain range in Portugal located in a transition climatic zone (Atlantic to Mediterranean). We focused on three ecosystem services belonging to three broad categories: provisioning (reared animals), regulating (of water flows), and cultural (conservation of an endemic and iconic species). These services were evaluated using a set of different satellite products, namely grassland cover, soil moisture, and ecosystem functional attributes. In situ and statistical data were also used to compute final indicators of ecosystem services. We found a decline in the provision of reared animals since year 2000, although the area of grasslands had remained stable. The regulation of water flows had been maintained, and a strong relationship with interannual precipitation pattern was noted. In the same period, conservation of the focal iconic species might have been affected by interannual fluctuations of suitable habitat areas, with a possible influence of wildfires and precipitation. We conclude that satellite products can efficiently provide information about the current state and trend in the supply of various categories of ecosystem services, especially when combined with in situ or statistical data in robust modeling frameworks.

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“…For example, it can be assumed that large parts of the European Alps have a larger positive influence on the nexus with more ES, than only the water-related ones [27]. Alpine ecosystems play a significant part in the area and can, for example, positively influence cultural values also of the lowlands [48,67].…”

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Assessing Freshwater Provision and Consumption in the Alpine Space Applying the Ecosystem Service Concept

et al. 2019

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A key challenge in the sustainable management of freshwater is related to non-stationary processes and transboundary requirements. The assessment of freshwater is often hampered due to small-scale analyses, lacking data and with the focus on only its provision. Based on the ecosystem service (ES) concept, this study aims at quantitatively comparing potential water supply with the demand for freshwater in the European Alps and their surrounding lowlands. We propose an easy-to-use combination of different mapping approaches, including a large-scale hydrologic model to estimate water supply and the downscaling of regional data to the local scale to map demand. Our results demonstrate spatial mismatches between supply and demand and a high dependency of the densely populated lowlands from water providing mountain areas. Under expected climate variations and future demographic changes, our results suggest increasing pressures on freshwater in the south of the Alps. Hence, sustainable water management strategies need to assure the supply of freshwater under changing environmental conditions to meet the increasing water demand of urbanized areas in the lowlands. Moreover, national water management strategies need to be optimally concerted at the international level, as transboundary policies and frameworks can strengthen future water provision.

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Symbolic species as a cultural ecosystem service in the European Alps: insights and open issues

Cited by 49 publications

References 78 publications

Nomen omen. Toponyms predict recolonization and extinction patterns for large carnivores

Nomen omen. Toponyms predict recolonization and extinction patterns for large carnivores

Ecosystem Services in a Protected Mountain Range of Portugal: Satellite-Based Products for State and Trend Analysis

Assessing Freshwater Provision and Consumption in the Alpine Space Applying the Ecosystem Service Concept

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