Characterizing forest ecosystem services degradation within water catchments. An application to a South West Pacific tropical and semi-arid island (New Caledonia)

Haaren, Brice Van; Andreoli, Rémi; Dumas, Pascal; Lille, Didier; Géraux, Hubert

doi:10.1016/j.envc.2021.100151

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“…The total and individual values of ecosystem services are negatively related to population growth and the loss of cropland expansion (Berihun et al, 2021). The clearing of natural forests and shrub ecosystems has reduced the quality and stability of water flows, carbon stocks, soil stabilization, and wild pollination services (Eguiguren et al, 2019; van Haaren et al, 2019). The total ecosystem service value of natural and shrub forests is significantly higher than that of plantations (Bremer & Farley, 2010; Chazdon, 2008; Paudyal et al, 2020).…”

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Changes in Ecosystem Service Values in Response to the Planting of Eucalyptus and Acacia Species in the Gilgel Abay Watershed, Northwest Ethiopia

Debie

Anteneh

2022

Tropical Conservation Science

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Plantation of Eucalyptus and Acacia species emerges as a promising alternative in the tropics in a scenario of high demand for provisional and regulating ecosystem services. The research aimed to characterize the spatiotemporal dynamics of ecosystem service values in response to planting practices of Eucalyptus and Acacia species in the Gilgel Abay watershed, Northwest Ethiopia. The threshold values of NDVI were employed to classify land-use/covers using cloud-free satellite imagery data in 1984, 1998, 2013, and 2021. The benefit transfer method of modified value coefficient was used to estimate ecosystem service values (ESVs) of the study watershed. Total ESV decreased from 1984 to 1998 due to the expansion of cultivated land at the expense of natural forests, shrubs, and grasslands. As food production increased, performance levels of climate regulation, erosion control, and nutrient cycle declined. In contrast, the service values of erosion control, climate regulation, and nutrient cycles were the major contributors to the overall increase in ESV from 1998 to 2021. This was caused by expanding Acacia and Eucalyptus species plantation at the expense of cultivated land in the watershed. The research revealed a trade-off relationship between provisional and other ecosystem services, such as regulating and supporting ecosystem service values in response to land-use system transformation. As a result, it is suggested that synergistic interactions between regulating, provisional, and supporting ecosystem service values be developed by merging plantation and cultivated land. Maintaining the right proportions of degraded plantations, protected natural forests, farmlands, and wetland ecosystems can be the most effective way to provide optimal multiple ecosystem services.

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Changes in Ecosystem Service Values in Response to the Planting of Eucalyptus and Acacia Species in the Gilgel Abay Watershed, Northwest Ethiopia

Debie

Anteneh

2022

Tropical Conservation Science

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“…These include regulating services such as water quality and quantity (DellaSala, 2011;Brandt et al, 2014;Keith et al, 2017;Kormos et al, 2018;Taylor et al, 2019;Vardon et al, 2019); carbon storage and sequestration as an ecosystem service of global climate regulation (United Nations [UN], 2021) [discussed above, but see Keith et al (2019) and Uganda Bureau of Statistics [UBOS] ( 2020) for examples using Ecosystem Accounts]; local to regional biophysical cooling (Spracklen et al, 2012;Lawrence and Vandecar, 2015); regulation of runoff, sediment retention, erosion control, and flood mitigation (Hornbeck and Federer, 1975;Jayasuriya et al, 1993;Dudley and Stolton, 2003;Furniss et al, 2010;van Haaren et al, 2021); provisioning services such as abundance of game and fish (Gamfeldt et al, 2013;Brandt et al, 2014); cultural services such as landscape aesthetics, recreation, and tourism (Brandt et al, 2014;Brockerhoff et al, 2017); cultural practices and knowledge (Normyle et al, 2022); contributions to physical and psychological health (Stier-Jarmer et al, 2021); and general assessments across a suite of services (e.g., Myers, 1997;Harrison et al, 2014;Shimamoto et al, 2018;Maes et al, 2020).…”

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Using ecosystem integrity to maximize climate mitigation and minimize risk in international forest policy

Rogers

Mackey

Shestakova

et al. 2022

Front. For. Glob. Change

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Several key international policy frameworks involve forests, including the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). However, rules and guidelines that treat forest types equally regardless of their ecosystem integrity and risk profiles in terms of forest and carbon loss limit policy effectiveness and can facilitate forest degradation. Here we assess the potential for using a framework of ecosystem integrity to guide policy goals. We review the theory and present a conceptual framework, compare elements of integrity between primary and human-modified forests, and discuss the policy and management implications. We find that primary forests consistently have higher levels of ecosystem integrity and lower risk profiles than human-modified forests. This underscores the need to protect primary forests, develop consistent large-scale data products to identify high-integrity forests, and operationalize a framework of ecosystem integrity. Doing so will optimize long-term carbon storage and the provision of other ecosystem services, and can help guide evolving forest policy at the nexus of the biodiversity and climate crises.

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Unveiling the threshold in forest patch shapes to soil retention ecosystem services

Istanbuly,

Binesh,

Jabbarian Amiri

et al. 2024

Journal of Environmental Management

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Characterizing forest ecosystem services degradation within water catchments. An application to a South West Pacific tropical and semi-arid island (New Caledonia)

Cited by 4 publications

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Changes in Ecosystem Service Values in Response to the Planting of Eucalyptus and Acacia Species in the Gilgel Abay Watershed, Northwest Ethiopia

Changes in Ecosystem Service Values in Response to the Planting of Eucalyptus and Acacia Species in the Gilgel Abay Watershed, Northwest Ethiopia

Using ecosystem integrity to maximize climate mitigation and minimize risk in international forest policy

Unveiling the threshold in forest patch shapes to soil retention ecosystem services

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