The vulnerability of ecosystem services to land use change

Metzger, Marc J.; Rounsevell, Mark; Acosta, Lilibeth A.; Leemans, Rik; Schröter, Dagmar

doi:10.1016/j.agee.2005.11.025

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“…Land-use change alters the production capacity of an ecosystem, modifies the physical parameters of the earth's surface, influences nutritional transport between soil and vegetation, and affects the composition and structure of ecosystems (Zang et al, 2010). Socio-economic changes influence the VES by market price (Schroter et al, 2005;Metzger et al, 2006). In addition, some other demographic, scientific and technological, cultural, and religious factors may also affect VES in different ways (Kumar, 2011).…”

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Impacts of land-use change on valued ecosystem service in rapidly urbanized North China Plain

Song

Deng

Yuan

et al. 2015

Ecological Modelling

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a b s t r a c tLand-use change is a major factor driving ecosystem service change. Measuring the ecosystem service variation in response to land-use change is an effective way to assess the environmental costs and benefits of different approaches to policy-based planning. In the present study, we examined the changes in value of the ecosystem services (VES) in the North China Plain (NCP), which is an agricultural region, producing over 35% of the total grain in China, and estimated the changes of VES resulting from land-use change. A model mainly based on net primary productivity (NPP) and soil erosion amount was developed to assess the VES. The results show that the total VES of the NCP increased by $ 21.61 billion in 2000 USD during [2000][2001][2002][2003][2004][2005][2006][2007][2008]. However, the land-use change led to a net loss of VES by 0.08 billion USD. The expansion of built-up areas contributed to 84.61% of the loss of VES caused by land-use change. The increase of NPP mainly accounted for the increase of VES since it significantly improved the ecosystem service functions of gas regulation, nutrient cycling, and organic material provision. Overall, compared to other factors, land-use change only accounted for 0.35% of VES change during 2000-2008 in NCP.

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Impacts of land-use change on valued ecosystem service in rapidly urbanized North China Plain

Song

Deng

Yuan

et al. 2015

Ecological Modelling

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“…Not accounting for the many sources of uncertainties associated with grassland management, emission scenarios, climate and impact modeling, these results are only exemplary of the type of assessments that can be performed with the platform for vulnerability analysis in a multi-scale perspective. Moreover, the study should be broadened in order to consider not only climate change, but also socio-economic metrics (e.g., participatory governance index, regional expenditure for research and development, number of patents) informing policy makers and communities to determine priorities, identify actions to effectively manage the impact on society and economy of climate change, and ultimately determine adaptive capacity based on analysis of local solutions (via weighting of different metrics, e.g., Metzger et al, 2006).…”

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“…level of integrated metrics, to give an overall grade. The flexibility of the procedure is relevant for evaluating concepts such as adaptive capacity, and how this influences vulnerability (after Metzger et al, 2006).…”

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An open platform to assess vulnerabilities to climate change: An application to agricultural systems

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Shtiliyanova²,

Borràs³

et al. 2015

Ecological Informatics

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“…Thus, it can refer a technique to study the core hydrological ecosystem services and their differential features and also they can be regulated to achieve the goal of gaining human well-being and optimizing the IWRM. As LUCC change the function and structure of hydrological ecosystem, people can optimize the way of land use to create a virtuous circle of society-ecosystem-economy (Metzger et al, 2006;Watanabe and Ortega, 2014). In the middle of the Heihe River Basin of China, Shi et al (2014a,b) has analyzed the changes of hydrological ecosystem services through ecological function regionalization using System for Identifying and Zoning Ecosystem Services (SIZES).…”

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Reviews on land use change induced effects on regional hydrological ecosystem services for integrated water resources management

Gui

Wang

Zhao

et al. 2015

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Parts A/B/C

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a b s t r a c tThis paper proposed to provide valuable information for integrated water resources management through evaluating the research on the interaction mechanism among land use changes, regional hydrological ecosystem services and human well-being. Firstly, the driving mechanism of land use and land cover changes was introduced in this paper. Secondly, the overview of the interaction mechanism among land use and land cover changes, regional hydrological ecosystem services and human well-being was given. Based on the meta-analysis, land use changes have a profound influence on regional hydrological ecosystem services, and the variation of hydrological ecosystem could benefit or impair human wellbeing. Finally, two suggestions were emphasized for managers or policy makers for the future integrated water resources management: (1) Proper land use makes for the water resource management; (2) Blindly pursuing the provisioning services weakens other services of hydrological ecosystem.

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The vulnerability of ecosystem services to land use change

Cited by 623 publications

References 20 publications

Impacts of land-use change on valued ecosystem service in rapidly urbanized North China Plain

Impacts of land-use change on valued ecosystem service in rapidly urbanized North China Plain

An open platform to assess vulnerabilities to climate change: An application to agricultural systems

Reviews on land use change induced effects on regional hydrological ecosystem services for integrated water resources management

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