Assessment framework for landscape services in European cultural landscapes: An Austrian Hungarian case study

Hermann, Anna; Kuttner, Michael; Hainz-Renetzeder, Christa; Konkoly-Gyuró, Éva; Tirászi, Ágnes; Brandenburg, Christiane; Allex, Brigitte; Ziener, Karen; Wrbka, Thomas

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“…Future management of ecosystems to enhance their functioning and service provision must consider the trade-offs between the different services. While we found positive correlations between ecologically valuable areas and the supply of the environment related services, traditional food production and services of crops and livestock are likely to be higher in intensively used areas (Hermann et al 2014;Maes et al 2012).…”

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“…BHTs were linked to their capacities for providing various ESS by an expert-based classification system, on a scale of 0 to 5, with the highest value denoting the closest general relation between the BHT and its related service. This so-called Broader Habitat Approach (Hermann et al 2014) is based on a capacity matrix, with values altered by semi-quantitative field data (qualifiers). These qualifiers describe in-situ characteristics of single service providing units (landscape elements) with regard to their structural peculiarities, management practices and disturbance regimes.…”

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“…Therefore we have investigated the relation of two promising options to provide a knowledge basis to meet the needs of sustainable landscape development and conservation management inside and outside protected areas. While Kuttner et al 2013 introduced an assessment of structural landscape functionality that has been devel-oped to provide a comprehensive overview of location and quality of ecologically valuable landscape elements and networks, Hermann et al (2014) created a flexible approach for mapping and spatio-thematic aggregation of various ecosystem services (ESS). Both assessments were conducted on the same sample plots throughout the transnational study region around Lake Neusiedl.…”

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Do landscape patterns reflect ecosystem service provision? – A comparison between protected and unprotected areas throughout the Lake Neusiedl region

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Wrbka³

2014

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Nowadays, anthropogenic landscape fragmentation and land-use change are recognized as major driving forces for the ongoing worldwide loss of biodiversity. Though nature conservation areas, such as Austria's national parks, serve as retreat habitats for a broad range of biota, they are embedded in a complex of landscapes where diverse conflicts of interests meet, for instance tourism, agriculture and nature conservation. As a first step to improving the multifunctional quality of landscapes in terms of connectivity and flows of energy, material and information across the boundaries of protected zones, the status quo of such landscape mosaics has to be evaluated. The main aim of this study was to test if protected areas generally supply a higher share of environment-related ecosystem services than the surrounding landscape. We also investigated to which extent the structural composition and configuration of landscape sections reflects their volume of ecosystem service provision. We selected our study sites within the Austrian-Hungarian transnational study region around Lake Neusiedl and developed a methodological framework for assessing and mapping ecosystem services based on expert knowledge, spatial information and field data. The crucial linkage between landscape structure and its contribution for sustaining distinct ecological key functions was investigated through comprehensive use of landscape metrics, habitat and connectivity mapping. We were able to verify that levels of ecosystem service provision as well as the share and function of ecologically viable landscape elements were higher within the national park and that a statistical correlation between the aforementioned assessments exists. The outcomes of this study may support local stakeholders with valuable information on the service provision capacity and functional state inside and outside protected landscapes and illustrate hot and cold spots of network patterns. This in turn will allow the development of well-focused and efficient planning measures to strengthen ecosystematic functioning in terms of sustainable landscape development vis-à-vis society.

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“…Although this concept overlaps to a certain extent with the understanding of ES, many open questions remain before the ES concept is fully integrated in landscape research and decisionmaking (Hermann et al 2014).…”

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Riverine Ecosystem Management

Schmutz¹,

Sendzimir²

2018

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Open Access This book is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author (s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this book are included in the book's Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the book's Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Printed on acid-free paperThis Springer imprint is published by the registered company Springer International Publishing AG part of Springer Nature. The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland Challenges in Riverine Ecosystem Management Jan Sendzimir and Stefan SchmutzThis book is dedicated to those interested in the natural and social sciences and elements of governance that will support the sustainable management of rivers and aquatic ecosystems. Since elements of nature and society interact to determine the integrity and trajectory of these systems, they are referred to hereafter as socialecological systems (SESs). This introduction opens the door to these topics in four steps. It begins by explaining why a book dedicated to river management and science is needed at this point. In the second part, it outlines the history of some of the major developments that challenge the integrity of SESs worldwide. In the third part, it describes several of the principal tools used to study as well as manage SES. Tools to measure the degree of degradation of an SES include indicators of biological integrity, ecosystem health, and resilience. Tools to assess and manage the trajectory of an SES include the DPSIR and adaptive management. The introduction closes by outlining the structure of the book through the progression of its chapters. Justification of BookRivers are among the most threatened ecosystems of the world. For more than a centur...

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“…It has been applied in many case studies (e.g. Hermann et al 2013, Stoll et al 2015, Vihervaara et al 2010, in countries from Austria and Hungary (Hermann et al 2013) to China (Cai et al 2017), the USA (Cottillon 2013), Thailand (Kaiser et al 2013), France (Campagne et al 2017) and Nepal (Paudyal et al 2015) and at scales from local to national (Depellegrin et al 2016) and continent-wide (Stoll et al 2015). The diversity of application confirms that "the approach has the potential to integrate all kinds of ES-related data based on diverse scientific disciplines or ES quantification methods and of varying quality and quantity in illustrative matrix tables and maps" .…”

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May the matrix be with you! Guidelines for the application of expert-based matrix approach for ecosystem services assessment and mapping

Campagne¹,

Roche²

2018

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Matrices or look-up tables are increasingly popular flexible tools for ecosystem services mapping and assessment. The matrix approach links ecosystem types or land cover types to ecosystem services by providing a score for ecosystem service (ES) capacity, supply, use, demand or other concepts. Using expert elicitation enables quick and integrative ES scoring that can meet general demand for validated ES mapping and assessment at different scales. Nevertheless, guidance is needed on how to collect and integrate expert knowledge to address some of the biases and limits of the expert elicitation method. This paper aims to propose a set of guidelines to produce ES matrices based on expert knowledge. It builds on existing literature and experience acquired through the production of several ES matrices in several ES assessments carried out in France. We propose a 7-steps methodology for the expert-based matrix approach that aims to promote cogency in the method and coherency in the matrices produced. The aim here is to use collective knowledge to produce semi-quantitative estimates of ES quantities and not to analyse individual or societal preferences or importance of ES. The definition of the objectives and the preparation phase is particularly important in order to define the components of capacity to demand ES chain to be addressed. The objectives and the ES components addressed will influence the composition of the expert panel. We recommend an individual ‡ ‡ © Campagne C, Roche P. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.filling of an empty matrix in order to strengthen the statistical analysis of the scores' variability and the analysis of congruency between experts. Expert scoring should follow a process of discussion, information-sharing and collective appropriation of a list of ecosystem types and ES to be assessed. We suggest that the ES matrix should not only focus on ES central scores but also address the variabilities and uncertainties as part of the ES assessment. The analysis of these sources of variability allows the documentation of variations in the ES quantity but also an exploration into the lack of consensus or knowledge gaps that needs to be addressed.

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Assessment framework for landscape services in European cultural landscapes: An Austrian Hungarian case study

Cited by 58 publications

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Do landscape patterns reflect ecosystem service provision? – A comparison between protected and unprotected areas throughout the Lake Neusiedl region

Do landscape patterns reflect ecosystem service provision? – A comparison between protected and unprotected areas throughout the Lake Neusiedl region

Riverine Ecosystem Management

May the matrix be with you! Guidelines for the application of expert-based matrix approach for ecosystem services assessment and mapping

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