Mapping and assessing ecosystems and their services: a comparative approach to ecosystem service supply in Suriname and French Guiana

Sieber, Ina Maren; Campagne, C. Sylvie; Villien, Clément; Burkhard, Benjamin

doi:10.1080/26395916.2021.1896580

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“…Experts identify Woodland and forest, Rivers and lakes and Marine ecosystems with the highest recreational potential in Bulgaria. Sieber et al (2021) note similar results in Suriname and French Guiana, where rivers and creeks, forest tree cover and ocean have the highest potential for recreational activities. According to the recreational potential index calculated in Slovakia by Makovnikova et al (2021), forests have the highest score, followed by water bodies and grassland.…”

Section: Ecosystem Typessupporting

confidence: 71%

“…At Suriname and French Guiana rivers and creeks show higher ES potential for recreational activities than the lakes. In French Guiana, the lakes have a lower score at the expert-based assessment, close to the average for the analyzed ecosystems (Sieber et al, 2021). The average score of rivers and creeks and lakes in Suriname is 3.7 and in French Guiana -3.5.…”

Section: Ecosystem Typesmentioning

confidence: 63%

“…Various studies applied the matrix approach for different assessments, for example in abandoned agricultural lands (Anpilogova and Pakina (2022), cross-border assessments (Sieber et al 2021), local scale assessment (Nedkov et al 2017, Grigorov, 2021, Zhiyanski et al 2021, experimental mapping (Prodanova,2021), a tiered approach of urban ecosystems (Nedkov et al, 2018), and for studying the recreational ecosystem services from stakeholders' perspective by (Seijo et al 2021, Bezak andBezakova, 2014). Some of these studies, such as Jacobs and Burkhard (2017), Roche and Campagne (2019), Ma et al (2019), Perrenes et al (2020), Sieber et al (2021) have analyzed the perceptions of different groups of people for ecosystems and the services they provide. Campagne et al (2020) discussed that more comparative analyses are needed to explore different contexts of expert scoring to strengthen the applicability of the ES matrix approach.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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How individual scores affect the final expert-based assessments of ecosystem services: Range and mean scores analysis of natural heritage supply maps

Prodanova¹,

Varadzhakova²

2022

EJG

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Ecosystems representing the Natural Heritage (NH) are considered in this study as an important source of ecosystem goods and services for human well-being. On that spatial base, we conducted an expert-based assessment and mapping of their potential to provide ecosystem services (ES) for recreational purposes in Bulgaria. Twelve experts participated in the expert-based assessment by filling individual matrices for the potential of the NH to provide ES. We analysed the results i.e. individual scores by comparing them, and calculating the minimum, the maximum and the range scores between them. We calculated the mean individual experts’ scores by ecosystem types and subtypes for nine prioritized ecosystem services for recreation – 2 provisioning, 2 regulating and 5 cultural. The results show that individual experts have different perceptions for some ecosystems and their services due to their different scientific expertise. This follows from the quite high ranges i.e., 4 or 5 units between maximum and minimum score per spatial unit. There are: (i) significant variations in scoring of Grasslands, Wetlands, Croplands, Rivers and lakes, and Urban ecosystems; and (ii) considerable similarities about Woodland and forest, Sparsely vegetated lands and Marine ecosystems. To compare the spatial discrepancies between the experts’ scores, we map them individually. A final integrated map represents the potential of the NH in Bulgaria to provide ecosystem services for recreation with an average score above 3.00. The main outcomes of our study are the analyses we made on the individual and the group experts’ scores.

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Section: Ecosystem Typessupporting

confidence: 71%

Section: Ecosystem Typesmentioning

confidence: 63%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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How individual scores affect the final expert-based assessments of ecosystem services: Range and mean scores analysis of natural heritage supply maps

Prodanova¹,

Varadzhakova²

2022

EJG

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“…While we recognize that ES assessments are highly context-specific and data transferability is limited (Luederitz et al 2015 ), we emphasize here that our assessment considers the potential ES supply, rather than the actual supply and use. The latter depends, among other things, on the institutional and governance settings that characterize the analyzed socio-ecological system, which may result in different levels of ES supply from ecosystems with similar potentials (Sieber et al 2021 ). Even with this caveat, however, the assumed values may not be fully representative of the Eritrean context, as we did not include information on ecosystem conditions (Rendon et al 2019 ).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mapping and assessing ecosystem services for sustainable policy and decision-making in Eritrea

Esmail

Cortinovis

Wang

et al. 2023

Ambio

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The mapping and assessment of ecosystems and their services (MAES) is key to inform sustainable policy and decision-making at national and sub-national levels. Responding to the paucity of research in sub-Saharan Africa, we conduct a pilot study for Eritrea that aims to map and assess the temporal dynamics of key ecosystems and their services. We reviewed policy and legal documents, analyzed land cover changes and estimated the potential for ecosystem services supply through an expert-based matrix approach. Our results showed that from 2015 to 2019, the potential supply of the ecosystem services analyzed (e.g., crop provisioning, water supply and recreation) increased, with the exception of wood supply. Overall, our study presents policy-relevant insights as to where to conserve, develop, or restore ecosystem services supply in Eritrea. Our approach is transferable to similar data scarce contexts and can thereby support policies toward more sustainable land development for people and nature.

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“…The Guiana Shield provides a common regional geological setting for rivers debouching on the South American coast between the Amazon and the Orinoco. As a result, these rivers share, in common, landscapes, ecology (Sieber et al 2021), and environmental problems (Oyedotun and Ally, 2021). The northward orientation of all of these rivers towards the Atlantic Ocean (Fig.…”

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confidence: 96%

A remote sensing-based classification approach for river mouths of the Amazon-influenced Guianas coast

Gautier

Anthony

Santos³

et al. 2022

Reg Environ Change

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The mouths of the rivers on the 1500-km-long Guianas coast, South America, are strongly influenced by large mud banks migrating alongshore from the Amazon River. To probe this influence, a river-mouth morphological classification scheme was carried out from satellite images, complemented by data from rare previous studies of estuarine hydrodynamics. The classification highlights a variety of morphological and dynamic river-mouth types that are further influenced by both fluvial water discharge and fluvial catchment rock type. Three basic types are identified: (1) river mouths diverted westward by capes and spits built from multi-decadal to multi-millennial accumulation of mud supplied by the Amazon; among these, mouths close to the Amazon are fixed by bedrock surrounded by mud; (2) small river mouths in French Guiana fixed by outcrops of Precambrian rocks that form headlands devoid of Amazon mud; and (3) large river mouths characterized by high water discharge that imparts an orientation normal to the coast; the largest two belonging to this type (the Essequibo in Guyana and the Maroni on the border between French Guiana and Suriname) exhibit infilled mouths that are transitioning towards deltas. These river mouths show a tropical seasonal estuarine circulation regime strongly influenced by Amazon mud. The influence of mud from the distant Amazon constitutes a unique aspect of the river mouths on the Guianas coast. Field and modelling studies in the future will be needed in order to achieve better characterization of the influence of Amazon mud on the estuarine circulation systems and of the distribution of sediment types within these river mouths, including sand supplied by the rivers.

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Mapping and assessing ecosystems and their services: a comparative approach to ecosystem service supply in Suriname and French Guiana

Cited by 15 publications

References 55 publications

How individual scores affect the final expert-based assessments of ecosystem services: Range and mean scores analysis of natural heritage supply maps

How individual scores affect the final expert-based assessments of ecosystem services: Range and mean scores analysis of natural heritage supply maps

Mapping and assessing ecosystem services for sustainable policy and decision-making in Eritrea

A remote sensing-based classification approach for river mouths of the Amazon-influenced Guianas coast

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