Linking ecosystem processes and ecosystem services

Fu, Bojie; Wang, Shuai; Su, Changhong; Forsius, Martin

doi:10.1016/j.cosust.2012.12.002

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“…As a new trend, impacts of landscape pattern dynamics on ecosystem services have received increasing interest (Su et al, 2012;Wu et al, 2013;Fu et al, 2015;Wang et al, 2015b). Fu et al (2013) proposed a conceptual framework linking landscape patterns, ecosystem processes, and ecosystem services, which provided the scientific basis for landscape planning and ecosystem management.…”

Section: Landscape Ecologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Integrated studies of physical geography in China: Review and prospects

Pan

2016

J. Geogr. Sci.

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Modern physical geography in China grew from Chinese traditional geography and has been profoundly influenced by the geographical disciplines of Euro-America and Russia. Since the 1950s, integrated studies of physical geography in China have made remarkable progress in the fields of comprehensive physical geographical regionalization, land studies, landscape ecology, and land surface geographical processes. During the past few decades, under the background of global change and rapid socio-economic transformation, a series of environmental and resources problems have boomed in China. To solve these problems and promote the development of integrated studies of physical geography, the following issues were proposed as research priorities: (1) coupling of land surface patterns and processes; (2) integrated research on regional responses and adaptation to global change; (3) analysis of human dimensions of the earth system; (4) ecosystem service research from a geographical perspective; (5) integration of multi-source data and model development; (6) integrated studies on unique geographical units; and (7) important global issues and relevant international programs.

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Section: Landscape Ecologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Integrated studies of physical geography in China: Review and prospects

Pan

2016

J. Geogr. Sci.

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“…It addresses linkages inside of an ecosystem and among various ecosystems for integrated regional governance of environmental management. Fu et al emphasized that ecosystem resilience through linkages in the ecosystem processes are crucially important to environmental management [24]. Administrative-based governance is not sufficiently robust and flexible to support integrated environmental governance across related geomorphic units.…”

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confidence: 99%

Integrated Land Governance for Eco-Urbanization

2016

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"Eco-urbanization" emphasizes the importance of the ecological and environmental aspects of urbanization, which is to approach a balanced and healthy ecosystem through paying attention to the ecological intercorrelation of many factors. This involves balancing the stocks and utilization of multi-resources and balancing the efficiency and equality of multi-resources allocation to improve the quality of life for both urban and rural areas. In this dynamic process, resource allocations are carried out at different administrative levels, which have posed challenges of developing an integrated approach for eco-urbanization. Due to interaction and intersection of ecological activities among adjacent regions, a complex ecosystem tends to be in a fluid catchment area with dynamic flows of activities that transcend rigid administrative boundaries. The management of ecosystem sensitively impinges on the effectiveness of having an integrated approach of land governance in a comprehensive planning of urban-rural development. This will require scientific findings to support a policy-oriented management approach, which can take account of land use/cover changes (LUCC), ecosystem services and functions, interactive impacts of socio-economic transformation and climatic variations for optimum land use allocation to achieve the objective of ecosystem conservation and socio-economic development for both urban and rural area in a sustainable approach. Three aspects of development are identified as the importance of achieving advanced land governance for eco-urbanization. This paper aims to discuss these in turn: first, to find the adaptive measures in response to the uncertainty of climatic variation; second, to understand and research the scale and level of sustainable consumption for balancing resource saving and consumption; and third, to study ecological intercorrelation among multiple factors. We, therefore, argue that the far insight of "economic growth" via an ecologically-centered approach based on scientific solutions of all three aspects and intergovernmental consultations is important to support land governance for eco-urbanization and to strike a balance between environmental conservation and economic development.

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“…A key scientific question is the development of dynamic models of ES coupled to biogeochemical cycles for scenario analysis in a changing environment. In policy, the management of multiple ES is a crucial challenge (Fu et al 2013).…”

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ESLab application to a boreal watershed in southern Finland: preparing for a virtual research environment of ecosystem services

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We report on preparatory work to develop a virtual laboratory for ecosystem services, ESLab, and demonstrate its pilot application in southern Finland. The themes included in the pilot are related to biodiversity conservation, climate mitigation and eutrophication mitigation. ESLab is a research environment for ecosystem services (ES), which considers ES indicators at different landscape scales: habitats, catchments and municipalities and shares the results by a service that utilizes machine readable interfaces. The study area of the pilot application is situated in the boreal region of southern Finland and covers 14 municipalities and ten catchments including forested, agricultural and nature conservation areas. We present case studies including: present carbon budgets of natural ecosystems; future carbon budgets with and without the removal of harvest residues for bioenergy production; and total phosphorus and nitrogen future loads under climate and agricultural yield and price scenarios. The ESLab allows researchers to present and share the results as visual maps, statistics and graphs. Our further aim is to provide a toolbox of easily accessible virtual services for ES researchers, to illustrate the comprehensive societal consequences of multiple decisions (e.g. concerning land use, fertilisation or harvesting) in a changing environment (climate, deposition).

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Linking ecosystem processes and ecosystem services

Cited by 243 publications

References 45 publications

Integrated studies of physical geography in China: Review and prospects

Integrated studies of physical geography in China: Review and prospects

Integrated Land Governance for Eco-Urbanization

ESLab application to a boreal watershed in southern Finland: preparing for a virtual research environment of ecosystem services

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