The effects of landscape patterns on ecosystem services: meta-analyses of landscape services

Abstract

Purpose The recently introduced concept of 'landscape services'-ecosystem services influenced by landscape patterns-may be particularly useful in landscape planning by potentially increasing stakeholder participation and financial funding. However, integrating this concept remains challenging. In order to bypass this barrier, we must gain a greater understanding of how landscape composition and configuration influence the services provided.

Synergism Between Payments for Water-Related Ecosystem Services, Ecological Restoration, and Landscape Connectivity Within the Atlantic Forest Hotspot

“…Combining multiple benefits or ES or disservices-such as water quality, disease control, loss of pest control by increase in pest response, pest control by increase of natural enemies' response, pollination, and aesthetic value-is desired on every conservation or restauration project. Moreover, when the project results in changes on landscape structure, they will likely result in synergism between several ES (Duarte et al, 2018).…”

“…In conclusion, there is great potential for incorporating biodiversity conservation objectives into projects primarily designed and funded for improving the provision of water-related ES, a potential that can be optimized by adopting a landscape ecology perspective in the planning and implementation of ecological restoration efforts. Therefore, identifying the additional ES that are synergic with water-related PES is a great opportunity to increase the perspective of these projects, particularly when the services are modulated by landscape spatial patterns (Duarte et al, 2018).…”

“…Our hypothesis is that vegetation patches under restoration that were primarily established for water resources protection are additionally playing an important role in the landscape by increasing structural and functional connectivity, thereby demonstrating the potential for generation of multiple ES through ecological restoration efforts. As many ES or disservices are modulated by landscape spatial patterns-such as water quality, disease control, loss of pest control by increase in pest response, pest control by increase of natural enemies' response, pollination, and aesthetic value-we advocate that PES that meet the synergism between services would be a great priority on the restoration agenda (Duarte, Santos, Cornelissen, Ribeiro, & Paglia, 2018).…”

Monitoring of Urbanization and Analysis of Environmental Impact in Stockholm with Sentinel-2A and SPOT-5 Multispectral Data

“…Since landscape pattern influences the functioning and provision of ecosystem services [47,57,58], changes in spatial pattern quantified by landscape metrics can act as indicators of impact on ecosystem services [56,59]. Landscape metrics have an established record as tools to measure spatial heterogeneity in landscapes [60][61][62][63] and have been used to estimate fragmentation in urbanizing landscapes [64][65][66][67].…”

The roles of non‐production vegetation in agroecosystems: A research framework for filling process knowledge gaps in a social‐ecological context

“…Such non‐production vegetation might comprise linear features such as hedgerows, shelterbelts, corridors, and riparian buffers, single trees, patches of vegetation composed of restoration plantings and remnant patches, and other inter‐crop components such as underplantings, buffer strips and cover crops. These non‐production vegetation elements vary in their size, composition and spatial arrangement in agricultural landscapes, which together largely determine the types of processes and ecosystem services that can be supported (Duarte, Santos, Cornelissen, Ribeiro, & Paglia, 2018). Furthermore, manipulating such elements in agricultural landscapes, via land management decisions, provides a means to influence future ecological outcomes.…”