Valuing ecosystem and economic services across land-use scenarios in the Prairie Pothole Region of the Dakotas, USA

Gascoigne, William; Hoag, Dana L.; Koontz, Lynne; Tangen, Brian A.; Shaffer, Terry L.; Gleason, Robert A.

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2011.04.010

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“…11 for an example of how climate and land use shape biodiversity patterns). At landscape scale, most scenario-based ES assessments have focused on land cover change (12,13). They also considered impacts on one or several ESs, but not on bundles and tradeoffs among ESs, and, as far as we know, have not explicitly combined climate and land-use drivers to tease out their respective effects.…”

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Plant trait-based models identify direct and indirect effects of climate change on bundles of grassland ecosystem services

Lamarque

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2014

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Land use and climate change are primary causes of changes in the supply of ecosystem services (ESs). Although the consequences of climate change on ecosystem properties and associated services are well documented, the cascading impacts of climate change on ESs through changes in land use are largely overlooked. We present a trait-based framework based on an empirical model to elucidate how climate change affects tradeoffs among ESs. Using alternative scenarios for mountain grasslands, we predicted how direct effects of climate change on ecosystems and indirect effects through farmers' adaptations are likely to affect ES bundles through changes in plant functional properties. ES supply was overall more sensitive to climate than to induced management change, and ES bundles remained stable across scenarios. These responses largely reflected the restricted extent of management change in this constrained system, which was incorporated when scaling up plot level climate and management effects on ecosystem properties to the entire landscape. The trait-based approach revealed how the combination of common driving traits and common responses to changed fertility determined interactions and tradeoffs among ESs.plant functional traits | trade-offs | global change | mountain agriculture E cosystem services (ESs) are increasingly used to assess and make land and natural resource use decisions that typically involve tradeoffs between conflicting goals and, in particular, between the different bundles of services that a given ecosystem could provide. These decisions are, however, rarely grounded in a mechanistic understanding of the ecosystem properties or processes that enable provision of multiple ESs. At the same time, mechanisms leading to tradeoffs among ESs are still poorly understood (1). Effective ES-based management decisions, especially in a climate-change context, require that we go beyond the description of spatial co-occurrences of targeted ESs under current climates (e.g., refs. 2 and 3) to understand direct interactions between ESs, and the effects of common drivers of change in ESs (4).A mechanistic approach to ES supply will be grounded in the relevant characteristics of the ecosystem components that contribute to it. Functional traits of ES providers are novel and powerful proxies (5, 6) that make it possible to scale wellunderstood functional tradeoffs from the organism level to ecosystem functioning and to ESs (7,8). Their relevance to ES modeling rests on the discovery that response functional traits that determine community response (e.g., fertilization favors plants with nitrogenrich leaves) overlap with effect functional traits that determine effects on ecosystem functioning (e.g., a majority of nitrogen-rich leaves promotes high primary productivity) (9).Scenario-based studies have compared bundles of ESs, and associated positive and negative relationships, across scenarios (10), but few published studies have sought to tease out the respective effects of different scenario drivers. Large-scale studies...

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Plant trait-based models identify direct and indirect effects of climate change on bundles of grassland ecosystem services

Lamarque

Mouchet

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2014

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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“…Gascoigne et al (2011) Compares the societal values of agricultural products and ecosystem services produced under policyrelevant land-use change scenarios, and explore the effectiveness of mitigating loss with conservation programs in the native prairie pothole regions of Dakota. Crops valued using market data.…”

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Cost benefit analysis and the environment

Markandya

2016

OECD Environment Working Papers

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“…Where sufficient seed is available, it is expensive. Despite these challenges, success in re-establishing large tracts of tallgrass prairie carries important benefits for society and nature, both in terms of sustaining vital services (e.g., improving water quality) [18] and in many cases contributing directly to regional economies [19].…”

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Talking Big: Lessons Learned from a 9000 Hectare Restoration in the Northern Tallgrass Prairie

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Large tracts (>1000 ha) of prairie are essential to the sustainability of grassland ecosystem services, yet in many ecoregions only small fragments remain. Glacial Ridge is among the largest prairie-wetland restorations ever attempted. Started in 2000, the 9000 ha project in northwest Minnesota, USA, was initiated to reconnect 14 small tallgrass prairie remnants. In all, 15,200 ha of contiguous habitat comprise the project's direct accomplishment. We created a partnership of more than 30 organizations, filled 177 km of drainage ditch, restored 1240 ha of wetland, and replanted 8100 ha. Flooding has been mitigated, water quality improved, and native vegetation reestablished. Animals not documented for decades have again occupied the site. Despite these accomplishments, the project would have been unnecessary if the land had been purchased in the 1970s, prior to conversion to agriculture, at one-tenth the restoration cost. Our challenges related to funding, differences in partners' restoration philosophy, community concerns about floods and tax losses, difficulties in obtaining seed, and follow-up management of invasive weeds. We summarize the restoration process and share basic principles that will help others to develop large-scale prairie restoration projects in the future. OPEN ACCESSSustainability 2012, 4 3067

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Valuing ecosystem and economic services across land-use scenarios in the Prairie Pothole Region of the Dakotas, USA

Cited by 117 publications

References 24 publications

Plant trait-based models identify direct and indirect effects of climate change on bundles of grassland ecosystem services

Plant trait-based models identify direct and indirect effects of climate change on bundles of grassland ecosystem services

Cost benefit analysis and the environment

Talking Big: Lessons Learned from a 9000 Hectare Restoration in the Northern Tallgrass Prairie

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