Defining alternative futures and projecting their effects on the spatial distribution of wildlife habitats

Wilhere, George F.; Linders, Mary J.; Cosentino, Brian L.

doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2006.05.001

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“…For most water fowl, the increasing farmlands and paddy fields cannot replace their natural habitat. The shrinking natural marsh wetlands have an obvious negative impact on the existence of these water fowl [2, 45]. …”

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Impacts of Intensified Agriculture Developments on Marsh Wetlands

Zhang

Zhou

2013

The Scientific World Journal

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A spatiotemporal analysis on the changes in the marsh landscape in the Honghe National Nature Reserve, a Ramsar reserve, and the surrounding farms in the core area of the Sanjiang Plain during the past 30 years was conducted by integrating field survey work with remote sensing techniques. The results indicated that intensified agricultural development had transformed a unique natural marsh landscape into an agricultural landscape during the past 30 years. Ninety percent of the natural marsh wetlands have been lost, and the areas of the other natural landscapes have decreased very rapidly. Most dry farmland had been replaced by paddy fields during the progressive change of the natural landscape to a farm landscape. Attempts of current Chinese institutions in preserving natural wetlands have achieved limited success. Few marsh wetlands have remained healthy, even after the establishment of the nature reserve. Their ecological qualities have been declining in response to the increasing threats to the remaining wetland habitats. Irrigation projects play a key role in such threats. Therefore, the sustainability of the natural wetland ecosystems is being threatened by increased regional agricultural development which reduced the number of wetland ecotypes and damaged the ecological quality.

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Impacts of Intensified Agriculture Developments on Marsh Wetlands

Zhang

Zhou

2013

The Scientific World Journal

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“…Many landscape scenario studies with advanced modeling tools now consider the ability for future landscapes to provide ES under different management strategies (Carpenter et al 2006;Santelmann et al 2006;Nassauer et al 2007;Wilhere et al 2007;Chen et al 2013). For example, in modeling forest scenarios, Nixon et al (2014) evaluated the effectiveness of different conservation strategies to meet target species needs, while also sustaining timber harvests (Price et al 2012).…”

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Linking ecosystem services with landscape history

Bürgi

Silbernagel

et al. 2014

Landscape Ecol

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The concept of ecosystem services (ES) has become widely used because it bridges ecology and economics and links nature to society. ES may evolve over time in dynamic landscapes driven by myriad processes. However, the consequences of changes in key ES has not been considered adequately in current ES research. Here we propose a framework for linking ES with landscape history, which can help us better understand the evolution of ES over time. We illustrate the framework by a case study from Switzerland. Both the capacity of landscapes to supply ES and the realization and recognition of key ES are likely to change over time. This insight should have important implications for landscape sustainability and related scenario studies.

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“…For wildlife habitats, land-use change data can be integrated with species-habitat associations to quantify changes in habitat area. In previous studies, land-use models were used to evaluate the impact of conservation policies, such as payments for afforestation and land conservation (Matthews et al 2002, Langpap and Wu 2008, Nelson et al 2008, changing agricultural practices (Santelmann et al 2006), and land-use zoning regulations (Wilhere et al 2007) on total habitat availability for wildlife species as well as on future rates of habitat loss (Beaudry et al 2013). A common finding was that different groups of species tend to respond differently to future land-use trends, and that these responses varied by region.…”

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Future land‐use scenarios and the loss of wildlife habitats in the southeastern United States

Martinuzzi

Withey

Pidgeon

et al. 2015

Ecological Applications

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Land-use change is a major cause of wildlife habitat loss. Understanding how changes in land-use policies and economic factors can impact future trends in land use and wildlife habitat loss is therefore critical for conservation efforts. Our goal here was to evaluate the consequences of future land-use changes under different conservation policies and crop market conditions on habitat loss for wildlife species in the southeastern United States. We predicted the rates of habitat loss for 336 terrestrial vertebrate species by 2051. We focused on habitat loss due to the expansion of urban, crop, and pasture. Future land-use changes following business-as-usual conditions resulted in relatively low rates of wildlife habitat loss across the entire Southeast, but some ecoregions and species groups experienced much higher habitat loss than others. Increased crop commodity prices exacerbated wildlife habitat loss in most ecoregions, while the implementation of conservation policies (reduced urban sprawl, and payments for land conservation) reduced the projected habitat loss in some regions, to a certain degree. Overall, urban and crop expansion were the main drivers of habitat loss. Reptiles and wildlife species associated with open vegetation (grasslands, open woodlands) were the species groups most vulnerable to future land-use change. Effective conservation of wildlife habitat in the Southeast should give special consideration to future land-use changes, regional variations, and the forces that could shape land-use decisions.

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Defining alternative futures and projecting their effects on the spatial distribution of wildlife habitats

Cited by 12 publications

References 45 publications

Impacts of Intensified Agriculture Developments on Marsh Wetlands

Impacts of Intensified Agriculture Developments on Marsh Wetlands

Linking ecosystem services with landscape history

Future land‐use scenarios and the loss of wildlife habitats in the southeastern United States

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