Urban Sprawl and Ecosystem Services: A Half Century Perspective in the Montreal Area (Quebec, Canada)

Dupras, Jérôme; Alam, Mahbubul

doi:10.1080/1523908x.2014.927755

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“…During the last decades, the southern Qué bec region (Canada), has seen the aforementioned social and ecological transformations of its rural landscapes [4,[11][12][13], and a gradual gentrification of different parts of its countryside is occurring [7]. Consequently, the environmental, recreational and aesthetic qualities of southern Qué bec landscapes are values gaining importance among rural communities, but also among the general public [14].…”

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Multiple-Use Zoning Model for Private Forest Owners in Agricultural Landscapes: A Case Study

Truax

Gagnon²,

Fortier³

2015

Forests

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Many small-scale private forest owners increasingly focus their management on amenity functions rather than on wood production functions. This paradigm shift is an opportunity to implement novel forestry management approaches, such as forested land zoning. Forest zoning consists in separating the land base in three zones that have different management objectives: (1) conservation zones; (2) ecosystem management zones; and (3) intensive production zones, which locally increase productivity, as a trade off to increase the land area dedicated to conservation and ecosystem management. We evaluate the ecological feasibility of implementing forest zoning on a private property (216 ha) at St-Benoî t-du-Lac, Qué bec (Canada) characterised by agricultural and forest land uses. As a basis for delineating conservation and ecosystem management zones, historical and contemporary data and facts on forest composition and dynamics were reviewed, followed by a detailed forest vegetation analysis of forest communities. Delineating intensive production zones was straightforward, as fertile agricultural field margins located downslope were used to establish multifunctional hybrid poplar buffers. At St-Benoî t-du-Lac, a realistic zoning scenario would consist of (1) conservation zones covering 25% of the forestland (37 ha); (2) ecosystem management zones covering 75% of the forestland (113 ha, including restoration zones on 24 ha); and (3) intensive production zones on 2.8 ha. Based on a yield projection of 13 t/ha/year for hybrid OPEN ACCESSForests 2015, 6 3615 poplars, only 5.6% of agricultural field areas would need to be converted into agroforestry systems to allow for the loss of wood production in a conservation zone of 37 ha of forest. Ecosystem services provision following the implementation of zoning would include increased habitat quality, biodiversity protection and enhancement (by restoration of some tree species), carbon storage, non-point source aquatic pollution control, local biomass production for heating, and increased forest economic value.

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Multiple-Use Zoning Model for Private Forest Owners in Agricultural Landscapes: A Case Study

Truax

Gagnon²,

Fortier³

2015

Forests

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“…Their dynamics and phenomena, like those related to tipping points for example, cannot be measured in primary studies. As highlighted in Liu et al () and Dupras and Alam (), spatial analysis of a large territory leads to an assumption of homogeneity of services provided by different types of ecosystems. If each ecosystem has a functional uniqueness, it becomes clear that spatial analysis inferring a general value for each ecosystem is reductive.…”

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Economic value of Greater Montreal's non‐market ecosystem services in a land use management and planning perspective

Dupras

Alam

Revéret

2014

Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes

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The Greater Montreal (Quebec, Canada) area is currently re-evaluating the future of its land use planning and development sector. One of the approaches being considered is the monetization of non-market goods and services provided by biodiversity and ecosystems in this region. This is in the interest of providing decision makers and stakeholders a tool for quantification and comparison. Herein we analyzed land use cover in 2010 and applied benefit transfer using 103 monetary observations from 62 studies. The value measured for the 11 non-market ecosystem services monetized for the Greater Montreal area reached $2.2 billion/year. More than three-quarters of this total value is provided by the services of air quality regulation, recreation, and habitat for biodiversity. Ecosystems providing the highest non-market values are urban forests, woodlands, and wetlands. We believe that the results of this ecosystem services value mapping could lead to better resource allocation and enable policy-makers to design more effective land use policies in southern Quebec.

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“…The percentage of population residing in urban areas increased by 11% during this period (UN, 2017). Usually, urban sprawl has negative impact on environment service values (ESVs) (Dupras and Alam, 2014;Cai et al, 2017;Lu et al, 2017). Cropland, particularly productive cropland (Tan et al, 2005;Song et al, 2015), is the most likely source of urban land.…”

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The impact of global cropland changes on terrestrial ecosystem services value, 1992–2015

Tan

Huang

2019

J. Geogr. Sci.

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From 1992 to 2015, ecological environment has been threatened by the changes of cropland around the world. In order to evaluate the impact of cropland changes on ecosystem, we calculated the response of terrestrial ecosystem service values (TESVs) variation to cropland conversion based on land-use data from European Space Agency (ESA). The results showed that cropland changes were responsible for an absolute loss of $166.82 billion, equivalent to 1.17% of global TESVs in 1992. Among the different regions, the impact of cropland changes on TESVs was significant in South America and Africa but not obvious in Oceania, Asia and Europe. Cropland expansion from tropical forest was the main reason for decreases in TESVs globally, especially in South America, Africa and Asia. The effect of wetland converted to cropland was notable in North America and Europe while grassland converted to cropland played an important role in Oceania, Africa and Asia. In Europe, the force of urban expansion cannot be ignored as well. The conversion of cropland to tropical or temperate forest partly compensated for the loss of TESVs globally, especially in Asia.

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Urban Sprawl and Ecosystem Services: A Half Century Perspective in the Montreal Area (Quebec, Canada)

Cited by 55 publications

References 54 publications

Multiple-Use Zoning Model for Private Forest Owners in Agricultural Landscapes: A Case Study

Multiple-Use Zoning Model for Private Forest Owners in Agricultural Landscapes: A Case Study

Economic value of Greater Montreal's non‐market ecosystem services in a land use management and planning perspective

The impact of global cropland changes on terrestrial ecosystem services value, 1992–2015

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