Where concepts meet the real world: A systematic review of ecosystem service indicators and their classification using CICES

Czúcz, Bálint; Arany, Ildikó; Potschin-Young, Marion; Bereczki, Krisztina; Kertész, Miklós; Kiss, Márton; Aszalós, Réka; Haines-Young, Roy

doi:10.1016/j.ecoser.2017.11.018

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“…Despite the importance of fire in most of the world and the socio-economic advantages resulting from fire regulation by ecosystems and landscapes, fire research from an ES point of view is scarce in the literature (de Guenni et al, 2005;Maes et al, 2011). This may be explained, at least partially, by the difficult identification of indicators to define and assess a fire-related service (Czúcz et al, 2018;Layke, 2009) due to the complexity of the processes involved in fire behavior and of their dynamics (e.g. McKenzie et al, 2011;Rothermel, 1983;, and also because catastrophic phenomena, such as wildfires, are sometimes addressed in the literature as ecosystem disservices (EDS) (Shackleton et al, 2016;Vaz et al, 2017).…”

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Farmland abandonment decreases the fire regulation capacity and the fire protection ecosystem service in mountain landscapes

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A B S T R A C TThis study explored and applied the concepts of Fire Regulation Capacity (FRC) and Fire Protection Ecosystem Service (FPES) in the assessment of the effects of landscape change in a mountain fire-prone landscape in Portugal. We adopted a modeling and simulation approach using BFOLDS-FRM with landscape data for years 1990 and 2006 (observed) and with three landscape scenarios for 2020. Proxy indicators for FRC (burned area and fire intensity) and for economic damage by fire (loss of provisioning ES) were used to establish trends in the supply and value of FPES. We found decreased FRC to restrain simulated fires burning over 100 ha from 1990 on and to regulate Very High and Extreme fire intensity levels, particularly under our 2020 scenario of Forest expansion. FPES is also expected to decrease, as indicated by higher fire-related damages, particularly if fuel hazard increases in the landscape. However, there were differences among scenarios, suggesting potential tradeoffs between FPES and the supply of provisioning ES. Planning and management in this and similar areas experiencing farmland abandonment must consider fire trends and patterns, since landscape change is a major driver affecting FRC and FPES, which may further be decreased by future climatic conditions.

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Farmland abandonment decreases the fire regulation capacity and the fire protection ecosystem service in mountain landscapes

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“…In contrast to earlier calculations [55,94], here we calculated with data relative to the area of the single communes within the study area (and not just the percentage of all communes taken together within the whole area) and arrived at an estimate of economic value which is almost comparable to that of timber (1.4 million EUR compared to 3.3 million EUR for timber; [18]). But while economic valuation depends much on momentary market prices as well as on calculation schemes, it is of paramount importance to get also a view on the socio-cultural importance in order to get a realistic picture [60,95,96].…”

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“…Wild plants are not only neglected in statistics on food production, but they are also underrepresented in recent ES assessments [1,3,[17][18][19]. This is probably partly due to the fact that many prominent ES classifications fail to distinguish "wild" resources from cultivated crops as distinct classes of provisioning services (e.g.…”

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Berries, greens, and medicinal herbs—mapping and assessing wild plants as an ecosystem service in Transylvania (Romania)

Vári

Arany

Kalóczkai

et al. 2020

J Ethnobiology Ethnomedicine

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Background: Wild edible plants as well as medicinal herbs are still widely used natural resources in Eastern Europe that are frequently accessed by the local population. Ethnobotanical studies rarely give insight to the specific ecosystems in which wild food and medicinal plants grow in a spatially explicit way. The present work assesses the potential of different ecosystems to provide wild plants for food and medicinal use based on 37 selected plant species, gives an estimate on the actual use of wild plants, and allows insights into the motivation of local people to collect wild plants.Methods: A number of interdisciplinary methods were used: participatory stakeholder workshops with experts scoring the provisioning capacity of ecosystem types, GIS for representing results (capacity maps), basic data statistics for actual use assessment, and interviews for analysing motivations.Results: Capacity to provide wild edible plants was assessed highest in broad-leaved forests and wetlands, while for medicinal herbs, orchards were rated best. We could find a multitude of motivations for gathering that could be grouped along four main lines corresponding to major dimensions of well-being (health, habit/tradition, nutrition/ income, pleasure/emotional), with health reasons dominating very clearly the range (59% of answers), which can be interpreted as a combination of modern "green" values with a traditional lifestyle. We detected some distinct patterns of motivations between the different social groups analysed with more fundamental needs associated with lower level socio-ecological background. Conclusion: This case study provides an example on the importance of wild plants for locals from several points of view. We emphasize the relevance of these local stakeholder views to be included in decision-making and ecosystem management, which can be achieved by the presented workflow for mapping and assessment of ecosystem services which is also compatible with EU-suggested Mapping and Assessment of Ecosystems and their Services (MAES).

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“…All analyzed social landscapes may be described as sustainable in terms of LS, because every landscape provides a specific bundle of LS and a reasonable level of landscape diversity, connectivity and regulated LS [23]. In an ecological landscape, the common international classification of ecosystem services (CICES) methodology is useful for determining indicators MA (Millennium Ecosystem Assessment) and TEEB (The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity) [24]. Ecosystem service (ES) includes three categories: provisioning, regulating, and cultural services.…”

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“…For factors in the gravity system, an integrated framework can be employed to conduct a nested social-ecological assessment of ecosystem service benefits, drawing upon landscape and vulnerability mapping [38]. Almost all CICES classes were represented, with cultural and some regulating ES being the most frequently considered [24]. At the same time, regulating and cultural services were more often assessed than provisioning services.…”

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Social Landscape Optimization of Towns and Villages at the County Level by Developing a Compound Ecological Capital System

Ren

Yang

2019

Sustainability

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The development of the social landscape of towns and villages at the county level in China currently lacks sustainability and urgently needs to be optimized. By developing a compound ecological capital system, the optimization of the social landscape will be an important process. Based on the dialectical relationship between landscape production and landscape sustainability, a theoretical framework is proposed as a paradigm of landscape structure. By highlighting the culture base and life proposed in ecosystem services (ES) described in the common international classification of ecosystem services (CICES) methodology, we propose a new social landscape order. We used Hequ County, Shanxi Province, China as the study case, evaluating the ecology level of social capital by gravity. In this paper, four types of optimization approaches for social landscape structure are proposed: completing urbanization (urbanized approach), shaping social landscape (prioritized development approach), protecting nature (scale-controlled approach), and increasing agricultural landscape (migrated and merged approach).

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Where concepts meet the real world: A systematic review of ecosystem service indicators and their classification using CICES

Cited by 126 publications

References 58 publications

Farmland abandonment decreases the fire regulation capacity and the fire protection ecosystem service in mountain landscapes

Farmland abandonment decreases the fire regulation capacity and the fire protection ecosystem service in mountain landscapes

Berries, greens, and medicinal herbs—mapping and assessing wild plants as an ecosystem service in Transylvania (Romania)

Social Landscape Optimization of Towns and Villages at the County Level by Developing a Compound Ecological Capital System

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