Ecosystem services at risk: integrating spatiotemporal dynamics of supply and demand to promote long-term provision

Boesing, Andrea Larissa; Prist, Paula Ribeiro; Barreto, Julia; Hohlenwerger, Camila; Maron, Martine; Rhodes, Jonathan R.; Romanini, Eduarda; Tambosi, Leandro Reverberi; Vidal, Mariana Morais; Metzger, Jean Paul

doi:10.1016/j.oneear.2020.11.003

“…While tailored supply-benefit relationships have been rarely used in multifunctionality metrics due to the difficulty in defining their shape, their integration could greatly improve model predictions (Manning et al 2018, Linders et al 2020). Both the prioritisation of services by stakeholders, and supply-benefit relationships, are also likely to change in time and space (Boesing et al 2020), e.g. as market forces and society change.…”

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Assessing the impact of grassland management on landscape multifunctionality

Neyret

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Fischer

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Allan

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et al. 2020

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Land-use intensification has contrasting effects on different ecosystem services, often leading to land-use conflicts. Multiple studies, especially within the 'land-sharing versus land-sparing' debate, have demonstrated how landscape-scale strategies can minimise the trade-off between agricultural production and biodiversity conservation. However, little is known about which land-use strategies maximise the landscape-level supply of multiple ecosystem services (landscape multifunctionality), a common goal of stakeholder communities. Here, we combine data collected from 150 grassland sites with a simulation approach to identify landscape compositions, with differing proportions of low-, medium-, and high-intensity grasslands, that minimise trade-offs between the four main grassland ecosystem services demanded by stakeholders: biodiversity conservation, aesthetic value, productivity and carbon storage. We show that optimisation becomes increasingly difficult as more services are considered, due to varying responses of individual services to land-use intensity and the confounding effects of other environmental drivers. Thus, our results show that simple land-use strategies cannot deliver high levels of all services, making hard choices inevitable when there are trade-offs between multiple services. However, if moderate service levels are deemed acceptable, then strategies similar to the 'land-sparing' approach can deliver landscape multifunctionality. Given the sensitivity of our results on these factors we provide an online tool that identifies strategies based on user-defined demand for each service (https://neyret.shinyapps.io/landscape_composition_for_multifunctionality/). Such a tool can aid informed decision making and allow for the roles of stakeholder demands and biophysical trade-offs to be understood by scientists and practitioners alike.

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“…Any areas either lacking the potential for ES supply, or below a high-value supply threshold (Appendix 7), were represented as the landscape matrix through which ecological process-based connections between supply areas could flow ( Field and Parrott, 2017 ). In reality, such spatial interaction networks are dynamic through time ( Boesing et al, 2020 ), though here we consider a static snapshot of the present state of ES supply in our study region to clearly illustrate real-world application of a novel approach for mapping the ecological relationships underpinning multiple types of ES supply.…”

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confidence: 99%

Mapping the functional connectivity of ecosystem services supply across a regional landscape

Field

¹

,

Parrott

²

2022

eLife

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Sustainably managing multifunctional landscapes for production of multiple ecosystem services (ES) requires thorough understanding of the interactions between ES and the ecological processes that drive them. We build upon landscape connectivity theory to present a spatial approach for assessing functional connections between multiple ES at the landscape scale, and take a closer look at the concept of ES interactions by explicitly representing the mechanisms behind the relationships between ES. We demonstrate application of the approach using existing ES supply mapping data for plant agriculture, waterflow regulation, and landscape aesthetics and map the functional connectivity between them. We find that, when weights of all linkages were amalgamated, areas of high-value connectivity are revealed that are not present on any individual ES supply area or pairwise link maps, which suggests that the spatial focus of planning for optimal service provisioning may shift when functional relationships between several ES are considered. From water flow supply areas, our modeling maps several functional connections that operate over both short and long distances, which highlights the importance of managing ES flows both locally and across jurisdictions. We also found that different land use and land cover types than those associated with ES supply areas may be serving as critical corridors connecting interdependent ES. By providing spatial information on ES connectivity, our approach enables local and regional environmental planning and management to take full consideration of the complex, multi-scale interactions between ecological processes, land use and land cover, and ecosystem service supply on a landscape.

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“…Any areas either lacking the potential for ES supply, or below a high-value supply threshold (details below), were represented as the landscape matrix through which ecological process-based connections between supply areas could flow . In reality, such spatial interaction networks are dynamic through time (Boesing et al 2020), though here we consider a static snapshot of the present state of ES supply in our study region in an effort to clearly illustrate real-world application of a novel approach for mapping the ecological relationships underpinning multiple types of ES supply.…”

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confidence: 99%

Mapping the functional connectivity of ecosystem services supply across a regional landscape

Field

¹

,

Parrott

²

2021

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Sustainably managing multifunctional landscapes for production of multiple ecosystem services (ES) requires thorough understanding of the interactions between ES and the ecological processes that drive them. We build upon landscape connectivity theory to present a spatial approach for assessing functional connections between multiple ES at the landscape scale. We demonstrate application of the approach using existing ES supply mapping data for plant agriculture, waterflow regulation, and landscape aesthetics. The connections we observed between these three ES revealed high-value multifunctional linkages on the landscape that were not necessarily predictable from supply area mapping, nor from land use or land cover data. By providing spatial information on ES connectivity, our approach enables local and regional environmental planning and management that takes full consideration of the complex, multi-scale interactions between ecological processes, land use and land cover, and ecosystem service supply on a landscape.

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Ecosystem services at risk: integrating spatiotemporal dynamics of supply and demand to promote long-term provision

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Assessing the impact of grassland management on landscape multifunctionality

Assessing the impact of grassland management on landscape multifunctionality

Mapping the functional connectivity of ecosystem services supply across a regional landscape

Mapping the functional connectivity of ecosystem services supply across a regional landscape

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