Mapping ecosystem functions and services in Eastern Europe using global-scale data sets

Schulp, Catharina J.E.; Alkemade, Rob; Goldewijk, Kees Klein; Petz, Katalin

doi:10.1080/21513732.2011.645880

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“…LAI, together with foliar nitrogen, drives productivity (Reich, 2012), and could be applied to assessments of carbon and provisioning services. Erosion control and hydrological services have been modeled with the cover of vegetation (e.g., Nelson et al, 2009;Schulp et al, 2012) and nonphotosythnetic vegetation (NPV, or plant litter; Guo et al, 2000), as well as by root depth (Band et al, 2012) and surface roughness (e.g., Mendoza et al, 2011). NPV can also indicate soil accumulation (Egoh et al, 2008) and aesthetic value (Lavorel et al, 2011).…”

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Potential contributions of remote sensing to ecosystem service assessments

Andrew

Wulder

Nelson

2014

Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment

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Abstract. Ecological and conservation research has provided a strong scientific underpinning to the modeling of ecosystem services (ESs) over space and time, by identifying the ecological processes and components of biodiversity (ecosystem service providers, functional traits) that drive ES supply. Despite this knowledge, efforts to map the distribution of ESs often rely on simple spatial surrogates that provide incomplete and non-mechanistic representations of the biophysical variables they are intended to proxy. However, alternative datasets are available that allow for more direct, spatially nuanced inputs to ES mapping efforts. Many spatially explicit, quantitative estimates of biophysical parameters are currently supported by remote sensing, with great relevance to ES mapping. Additional parameters that are not amenable to direct detection by remote sensing may be indirectly modeled with spatial environmental data layers. We review the capabilities of modern remote sensing for describing biodiversity, plant traits, vegetation condition, ecological processes, soil properties, and hydrological variables and highlight how these products may contribute to ES assessments. Because these products often provide more direct estimates of the ecological properties controlling ESs than the spatial proxies currently in use, they can support greater mechanistic realism in models of ESs. By drawing on the increasing range of remote sensing instruments and measurements, datasets appropriate to the estimation of a given ES can be selected or developed. In so doing, we anticipate rapid progress to the spatial characterization of ecosystem services, in turn supporting ecological conservation, management, and integrated land use planning. Keywords I IntroductionNatural and managed ecosystems provide physical, emotional, and economic wellbeing to human societies via benefits known as ecosystem services (ESs). There are a great many ways by which ecosystems benefit humanity. Conceptually, this diversity of ecosystem services is often grouped into provisioning (natural resources provided by ecological systems such as food, forage, and timber), cultural (spiritual and heritage values derived from natural and managed systems, as well as natural areas tourism and recreation), and regulating and supporting services (life support services such as air or water purification, climate regulation, 2 and ecological processes that maintain functioning ecosystems, contributing to all services) (MEA, 2005).Historically, ESs have been given little formal attention, especially those services that are not traditionally traded in a market (Costanza et al., 1997), leading to unsustainable land use practices with unintended consequences (Bennett et al., 2009;MEA, 2005). There is growing recognition that conservation and land use planning should strive to maintain the multifunctionality of natural and managed systems through balanced portfolios of ESs. Knowledge about the environmental and anthropogenic controls of ESs and the spatial distribution o...

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Section: Remotely Sensed Information Products Relevant To Essmentioning

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Potential contributions of remote sensing to ecosystem service assessments

Andrew

Wulder

Nelson

2014

Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment

147

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“…Mapping the potential of outdoor recreation activity using the RegMOD model. The degree of naturalness of a landscape is a factor dealth with also in other studies (Maes et al 2011;Schulp et al 2012), the same as the presence of natural protected areas (Willemen et al 2008;Kienast et al 2009). The capacity of grasslands to provide Table 2.…”

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“…Because the provision of ecosystem services depends on biophysical conditions and changes over space and time due to human-induced changes affecting land cover, land use, and climate (Burghard et al 2012), the supply and demand of services may differ geographically (Crossman et al 2013). A number of recent studies have mapped the supply of services at global (Naidoo et al 2008), continental (Schulp et al 2012), national (Bateman et al doi: 10.17221/109/2015-SWR 2009 or regional scales. The knowledge is useful for making assessments of landscape capacities and potentials to supply ecosystem services (Burghard et al 2012) and to adapt the management to local conditions (Szolozzi et al 2012).…”

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An approach to mapping the potential of cultural agroecosystem services

Makovníková¹,

Kobza²,

Pálka³

et al. 2016

Soil & Water Res.

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Makovníková J., Kobza J., Pálka B., Mališ J., Kanianska R., Kizeková M. (2016): An approach to mapping the potential of cultural agroecosystem services. Soil & Water Res., 11: 44-52.A system for evaluating outdoor recreation as a cultural agroecosystem service is presented. Every agroecosystem presumably has the potential for providing some kind of outdoor recreation. Two approaches to mapping the recreation potential were used and compared -the Social Values for Ecosystem Services (SolVES) model and the regional model (RegMOD). From the possibilities of recreation activities, hiking, biking, and cross-country skiing were chosen. The comparison of the two approaches showed that the RegMOD incorporates a wider range of categories than the SolVES model, particularly for hiking. The robust character of the SolVES model is reflected by narrowing the spectrum of categories of this recreation activity. The differences in the map view are marked in the case of biking and cross-country skiing. Overall, the grasslands of the study area in Slovakia offer mainly medium relevant capacity (53.90% by the results of the SolVES, 64.90% by the results of the RegMOD) for providing selected outdoor recreation activities. The less productive (53.88% of all non-productive grasslands by the results of the SolVES, 48.00% by the results of the RegMOD) and non-productive grasslands represent a higher relevant capacity (41.18% of all non-productive grasslands by the results of the SolVES, 54.40% by the results of the RegMOD) for providing outdoor recreation activities. This brings about a new view of their management as well as use. The RegMOD developed in this paper is replicable and could be applied by managers mainly at the regional level on condition of their proficiency in geographical information systems.

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“…This may involve moving toward quantitative rather than qualitative data, and simplifying the mapping process. Finally, future stakeholder engagement around territorial planning projects could be enriched with maps of ES supply (Martínez-Harms and Balvanera 2012, Schulp et al 2012) so as to confront perceptions of and demand for ES, with the physical reality of their presence and production possibilities. Indeed, an analysis of socio-preferences of ES would merit substantially from being coupled with biophysical analysis of the landscape in order to further explore the complex links between biophysical elements, ecological processes, and perceived ES (Crossman et al 2013).…”

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Reading Ecosystem Services at the Local Scale through a Territorial Approach: the Case of Peri-Urban Agriculture in the Thau Lagoon, Southern France

Ruoso¹,

Plant²,

Maurel³

et al. 2015

E&S

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ABSTRACT. In recent years, the ecosystem services (ES) concept has become a major paradigm for natural resource management. While policy-makers demand "hard" monetary evidence that nature conservation would be worth investing in, ongoing attempts are being made to formalize the concept as a scientifically robust "one size fits all" analytical framework. These attempts have highlighted several major limitations of the ES concept. First, to date, the concept has paid little attention to the role of humans in the production of ES. Second, the ongoing formalization of the ES concept is turning it into a "technology of globalization," thereby increasingly ignoring the socio-cultural context and history within which ecosystems emerge. Third, economic valuation has been shown to limit local stakeholders in expressing their daily and immediate ways of interacting with their environment over and beyond extrinsic motivation provided by financial gains. We address these three limitations by analyzing a social evaluation of the roles of peri-urban farmland from a territorial perspective. Our case study is the Thau lagoon in southern France. We conducted in-depth interviews with a broad range of stakeholders and ran two participatory workshops. Using a territorial meta-model that distinguishes three levelsphysical, logical, and existential-stakeholder data were analyzed to unravel the interplay of territorial elements at these three levels that gives rise to ES in two broad categories: food production and aesthetic landscape. The coupling of ES and territory concepts opens up several novel analytical perspectives. It allows partitioning of ES in a manner that "re-contextualizes" them and gives insight about both their physical constituents and their meaning at the territorial level. Additional research should incorporate the dynamics of service demand and supply, and further investigate options for implementation.

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Mapping ecosystem functions and services in Eastern Europe using global-scale data sets

Cited by 58 publications

References 63 publications

Potential contributions of remote sensing to ecosystem service assessments

Potential contributions of remote sensing to ecosystem service assessments

An approach to mapping the potential of cultural agroecosystem services

Reading Ecosystem Services at the Local Scale through a Territorial Approach: the Case of Peri-Urban Agriculture in the Thau Lagoon, Southern France

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