Plant‐trait‐based Modeling Assessment of Ecosystem‐service Sensitivity to Land‐use Change

Quétier, Fabien; Lavorel, Sandra; Thuiller, Wilfried; Davies, Ian D.

doi:10.1890/06-0750.1

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“…We used a previously published data set depicting changes in FD and EP in subalpine grasslands under different combinations of past and present land use (24,40,41). Key ES of importance to regional stakeholders, including farmers, other local residents, and tourists, were related to grassland EP (Table 1) (41).…”

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“…Our case study illustrates the variety of ways in which EP underlying the delivery of ES can be related to abiotic factors and different components of FD. The quantitative models produced can also be applied to make projections of the future delivery of ES under contrasting land cover change scenarios (41). The links between CWM of plant traits and EP are strong and widespread, as shown by theory and accumulating empirical evidence under contrasting ecological and biogeographical contexts.…”

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“…If no significant effects could be found in steps 2 and 3 we included the abundance of F. paniculata, the grass species that strongly dominates unmown grasslands (24). Previous analyses highlighted the effects of this species' abundance on EP and ES identified by local stakeholders (41).…”

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Incorporating plant functional diversity effects in ecosystem service assessments

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Global environmental change affects the sustained provision of a wide set of ecosystem services. Although the delivery of ecosystem services is strongly affected by abiotic drivers and direct land use effects, it is also modulated by the functional diversity of biological communities (the value, range, and relative abundance of functional traits in a given ecosystem). The focus of this article is on integrating the different possible mechanisms by which functional diversity affects ecosystem properties that are directly relevant to ecosystem services. We propose a systematic way for progressing in understanding how land cover change affects these ecosystem properties through functional diversity modifications. Models on links between ecosystem properties and the local mean, range, and distribution of plant trait values are numerous, but they have been scattered in the literature, with varying degrees of empirical support and varying functional diversity components analyzed. Here we articulate these different components in a single conceptual and methodological framework that allows testing them in combination. We illustrate our approach with examples from the literature and apply the proposed framework to a grassland system in the central French Alps in which functional diversity, by responding to land use change, alters the provision of ecosystem services important to local stakeholders. We claim that our framework contributes to opening a new area of research at the interface of land change science and fundamental ecology.biodiversity ͉ land change ͉ mass ratio hypothesis ͉ plant functional traits G lobal environmental changes, including land use and land cover changes, have considerable impacts on the ecological properties of ecosystems and therefore on the ecosystem services (ES) that societies derive from them (1). Although links between ecosystem properties (EP) and ES are not always trivial, many ES and their changes can be reasonably quantified by EP that are routinely measured in ecological studies (2). Global change effects on EP can be direct, through their effects on physical and chemical processes and on the metabolism and behavior of organisms. Global change drivers can also influence EP indirectly through their impacts on biodiversity, either through their effects on local biota or by altering the ability of organisms to disperse through landscapes. Relevant changes in biodiversity are manifested through changes in plant functional diversity (FD), i.e., the value, range, and relative abundance of plant functional traits in a given ecosystem (2). Although often subtler than direct effects of global change drivers (3, 4), these indirect biotic effects remain a major source of uncertainty in predicting the impacts of global change on ES provision.Conceptual models accounting for links between the functional trait values of local plant communities and EP are scattered in the literature, and the conceptual connections between them are not always clear. We articulate the most important of those models i...

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“…Several studies have shown that changes in land use lead to changes in species composition, interactions between species and available ecosystem services (Quétier et al, 2007;Chemini & Rizzoli, 2014). The Alps do, in fact, provide a great number of ecosystem services: protection from natural hazards, CO 2 storage and accumulation in soil or biomass, provision of raw materials, provision of water, genetic diversity and tourism opportunities (Grêt-Regamey et al, 2008).…”

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Landscape Conservation: The Perspectives of Experts and Other Stakeholders

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The idea that landscape fulfils many different functions and provides multiple benefits for human society is gaining strength. This new vision of landscape changes both, the interests and the needs of the persons involved and the use and management of the landscape itself. The objective of this paper is to study landscape conservation in a particular mountainous area of Italy, which requires an institutional, non-generic approach. Using the contingent valuation method, we investigated whether there is a relationship between experts' and casual observers' evaluations of ten different scenarios in the Leno Valleys. Results show that direct knowledge of the site characteristics increases the awareness of the importance of the site, significantly impacting on conservation choices and strategies.

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“…These semi-natural grasslands are of major importance for nature conservation as they often harbour a diverse flora and fauna containing rare species . However, these species assemblages are specifically adapted to management and therefore strongly endangered by changes in management (Quétier et al 2007). Since the beginning of the last century traditional land-use practices were often altered due to economical reasons since agriculture was intensified or sites were abandoned (Watkinson and Ormerod 2001;Poschlod and WallisDeVries 2002;Poschlod et al 2005).…”

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Mycorrhizal infection indicates the suitability of different management treatments for nature conservation in calcareous grassland

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The vegetation composition of calcareous grasslands in Central Europe is mainly determined by the applied management treatments and the nutrient status of the ecosystems, but these factors cannot clearly be separated. Recently several authors reported a shift in growthlimiting plant nutrients from nitrogen to phosphate. Therefore, we tested the interaction between management and plant available phosphate in a long-term experiment in Southern Germany with different management treatments applied to calcareous grassland. We measured mycorrhization rates, which are assumed to be high at low phosphate availability, to explore the interaction between management, phosphate availability and vegetation composition. By correlating mycorrhization rates to vegetation and soil data we found that treatments involving nutrient removal show a greater degree of mycorrhization than treatments leading to nutrient enrichment. According to decreasing suitability for grassland conservation, the six different management treatments could be ranked as mowing, followed by mulching (twice a year, once a year and every second year), burning and undisturbed succession. It was shown, that mycorrhizal infection rates (1) can be used to evaluate different management treatments for their suitability to conserve the initial vegetation composition, and (2) may provide information about the processes of adaptation to the current management, namely to differences in plant available phosphate. However, as discussed for the undisturbed succession treatment, it might not be sufficient to look at the degree of mycorrhization only. These are related to phosphate availability, but to detect adaptation processes to management, the degree of mycorrhization should be analysed together with plant's internal nutrient relocation patterns.

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Plant‐trait‐based Modeling Assessment of Ecosystem‐service Sensitivity to Land‐use Change

Cited by 132 publications

References 57 publications

Incorporating plant functional diversity effects in ecosystem service assessments

Incorporating plant functional diversity effects in ecosystem service assessments

Landscape Conservation: The Perspectives of Experts and Other Stakeholders

Mycorrhizal infection indicates the suitability of different management treatments for nature conservation in calcareous grassland

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