Tradeoffs among ecosystem services in restored wetlands

Jessop, Jordan; Spyreas, Greg; Pociask, Geoffrey E.; Benson, Thomas J.; Ward, Michael P.; Kent, Angela D.; Matthews, Jeffrey W.

doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2015.07.006

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“…One of the most striking features of P. arundinacea is that it readily forms dense monotypes that are resistant to change (Zedler, ) and difficult to eradicate (Healy & Zedler, ). Herbaceous emergent wetlands dominated by such an invasive species may provide reduced ecological goods and services (Hooper et al., ; Jessop et al., ), which makes the observed patterns of abundance‐based homogenization an acute conservation concern. However, while β MH declined across all sampling periods, the percent relative abundance of P. arundinacea did not strictly increase between all time periods, but declined between time periods 2 and 3 (Table ).…”

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Biotic homogenization of regional wetland plant communities within short time‐scales in the presence of an aggressive invader

2017

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Biotic homogenization (BH), a process by which β‐diversity erodes, represents a severe threat to biodiversity. Wetland plant communities may be especially susceptible to BH; however, this process has rarely been quantified and represents just one of many possible outcomes of compositional change. Likewise, few studies have used more than two timepoints to investigate BH as a dynamic temporal process. To address these issues, we quantified changes in β‐diversity amongst 48 herbaceous emergent wetlands across a landscape over four timepoints from 1997 to 2015. Pairwise occurrence‐ and abundance‐based dissimilarity metrics were used to quantify β‐diversity. Nonmetric multidimensional scaling was used to map these changes in compositional similarity through time, and repeated measures ANOVA via randomization was used to test for a significant effect of time on β‐diversity. Results indicated that herbaceous emergent wetlands homogenized in Illinois over 15 years due to the increased presence and abundance of Phalaris arundinacea and the decline of several other species. Temporal dynamics of β‐diversity differed between occurrence‐ and abundance‐based analyses. Synthesis. Using both presence–absence and abundance data to investigate BH helped avoid underestimating the impact of BH on β‐diversity, and drew attention to different temporal dynamics in β‐diversity at these two resolutions of community structure. This study highlights challenges associated with investigating BH, such as problems documenting the process where homogenization is not occurring in every site in a region, or where sites are converging towards more than one homogenized state. Incorporating concepts like alternative stable states may be helpful in resolving these issues, and present a more realistic picture of ecological change.

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“…Vaissière et al (2013) detected differences in the maintenance costs associated to the compensation of damaged ecosystems, depending on whether regulating, cultural or provisioning ecosystem services were the focus of compensation. Jessop et al (2015) have empirically assessed ecosystem service supply in 30 mitigation wetlands, identifying trade-offs among services, including biodiversity.…”

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A quantitative assessment of policy options for no net loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services in the European Union

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“…For example, Jessop et al. () showed that restored wetlands closer to riparian areas had greater plant, avian, and anuran conservation value than did wetlands further from these areas. In addition, land use history affects ecosystem services at both local (e.g., by altering resource availability for pollinators) and landscape scales (e.g., fragmentation affects dispersal (Kremen et al.…”

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“…For farmers and ranchers managing their land, ecosystem services measured at smaller scales may be particularly relevant for making management decisions (Jessop et al. , Austrheim et al. , Landis et al.…”

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Trade‐offs and synergies in a payment‐for‐ecosystem services program on ranchlands in the Everglades headwaters

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Increasingly, agriculture is recognized as valuable not only for food production, but also for regulating and supporting ecosystem services such as those encompassing biodiversity and water. Various government programs provide incentives to farmers and ranchers to maintain ecosystem services, with an emerging focus on payment‐for‐ecosystem services (PES) programs. However, interactions among ecosystem services, including synergies or trade‐offs, at spatial scales relevant to land managers are not well understood. Here, we examined how a PES program for enhanced water retention on subtropical ranchlands in the headwaters of the Everglades affected seven indicators of ecosystem services and three indicators of disservices within wetlands (local scale) and among wetlands (wetland scale) at four different ranches. We used general linear mixed models and model selection to evaluate the feasibility of explicit, a priori hypotheses using data from 15 wetlands sampled across four participating ranches. Our study indicated that managing for increased water retention could result in both synergies and trade‐offs among ecosystem services. Higher water retention increased wetland plants at both local and wetland scales and was associated with reduced mosquitoes. Trade‐offs included significant declines in forage plant cover and decreases in amphibian abundance with higher water retention. Unimodal non‐linear relationships described responses of macroinvertebrates, fish, mosquito, and non‐native plant abundance to increasing water retention. These complex relationships indicate that optimizing water retention, provisioning services, and wetland biodiversity in ranchlands may not be straightforward. Unimodal non‐linear relationships among water retention and biodiversity suggest there is a threshold of water retention that represents a trade‐off for also maintaining biodiversity. Land use was an important driver of ecosystem disservices, with more intensely managed ranches having a greater potential for ecosystem disservices such as increased cover of non‐native plants, abundant mosquitoes, and lower amphibian abundance. Multidisciplinary collaboration was required to design, implement, monitor, and assess this PES program for trade‐offs and synergies.

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Tradeoffs among ecosystem services in restored wetlands

Cited by 58 publications

References 77 publications

Biotic homogenization of regional wetland plant communities within short time‐scales in the presence of an aggressive invader

Biotic homogenization of regional wetland plant communities within short time‐scales in the presence of an aggressive invader

A quantitative assessment of policy options for no net loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services in the European Union

Trade‐offs and synergies in a payment‐for‐ecosystem services program on ranchlands in the Everglades headwaters

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