Potential conflict between future development of natural resources and high-value wildlife habitats in boreal landscapes

Suzuki, Nobuya; Parker, Katherine L.

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“…The conservation of cultural landscapes is very relevant within the framework of the European Landscape Convention and its implementation, which has allowed recognizing important conceptual and spatial links between European cultural landscape and the Protected Area network, favoring the resilience of social-ecological systems in the rural areas of Europe [11,12]. However, the method of exploiting ecosystems and the conflict of interest between stakeholders has led to a "conservation against development model" [13][14][15], affecting both the functionality of natural ecosystems and the sustainability of the coupled human and natural systems [16]. The concept of development has been usually associated with the maximization of the supply of those ecosystem services (ES) with the highest direct market values, basically provisioning services, which likely produce spatial and composition homogenization of the landscape and lead indirectly to the decline of the delivery of other regulating or cultural services [17,18].…”

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Linking Biophysical and Economic Assessments of Ecosystem Services for a Social–Ecological Approach to Conservation Planning: Application in a Biosphere Reserve (Biscay, Spain)

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The search for a balance between nature conservation and sustainable development remains a scientific and spatial planning challenge. In social-ecological systems based on traditional rural activities and associated with protected areas, this balance is particularly complex. Quantifying the economic impact of land use changes on ecosystem services can be useful to advise policy makers and improving social-ecological sustainability. In this study, we evaluated the land use changes in a time series and estimated the monetary value of the ecosystem services of the Urdaibai Biosphere Reserve (Biscay, Spain). In addition, we linked the monetary and biophysical values of land uses in each zoning units of the reserve, in order to identify the spatial adjustment between both assessments. Results showed that land use changes have clearly homogenized the landscape without substantially affecting its economic value. The methodological approach allowed detection that the reserve zoning was performed based more on its biophysical values than on economic ones. Thus, evident divergences between the biophysical and economic assessments were found. The core area was the one that had the highest coincidences (medium values) between both ecosystem services assessments, which highlights its importance not only in biophysical terms, is also economical. The procedure followed proved to be a useful tool to social-ecological planning and design of specific conservation strategies for the sustainable development of the area.

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Linking Biophysical and Economic Assessments of Ecosystem Services for a Social–Ecological Approach to Conservation Planning: Application in a Biosphere Reserve (Biscay, Spain)

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“…My research provides a means of not only assessing the current state of wilderness within the M-KMA, but it can also be used to examine changes over time, and can be used in combination with other resource value mapping (see for example Suzuki & Parker, 2016).…”

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“…Using data developed by other resource value mapping projects, land stewards and managers can assess possible resource conflict, compatibility, management, and planning. These data for the natural resource layers (forestry, oil and gas potential, mineral potential and wind energy potential) were previously developed (Suzuki & Parker, 2016). I reclassified each of the resource layers into four categories and then separated out the highest valued category for each resource to overlap with the very-high wilderness category.…”

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“…Each ecological and social indicator was developed into a fluid raster grid with reclassified values ranking from 1 to 10. This 1 to 10 ranking was chosen to be compatible with methodology in "Potential Conflict Between Future Development of Natural Resources and High-value Wildlife Habitats in Boreal Landscapes", where 1 was low value and 10 was high value(Suzuki & Parker, 2016).…”

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“…The Ecological Wilderness Characteristic Map and the Social Wilderness CharacteristicMap were then added together to create the final Map of Wilderness Character for the Muskwa-Kechika Management Area.4.5.2 Analysis of the Wilderness Map Compared to Other Resources Once the final wilderness map was developed, I examined how wilderness values compared to other resource values, in particular where the high wilderness values overlapped with other high values of different resources. To do this, I used previously created layers developed bySuzuki & Parker (2016) for mineral, timber, oil and gas, and wind energy potential…”

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Mapping wilderness character in the Muskwa-Kechika Management Area

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Mapping Wilderness Character in the Muskwa-Kechika Management Area Wilderness is an abstract concept containing both an ecological component more generally referred to as naturalness, and a social/human component attributed with recreation; it varies geographically, culturally and jurisdictionally. This thesis focuses on a case study of the Muskwa-Kechika Management Area (M-KMA) in northern British Columbia, Canada where maintaining wilderness is central to the vision. Previous mapping within the M-KMA has focused on wildlife and resource values, whereas this thesis aimed to define and map the wilderness character of the M-KMA. This thesis assesses the current state of wilderness to potentially examine changes over time and to spatially compare wilderness with other uses such as resource potential. When wilderness character data are separated into categories (lower, moderate, high and very-high), 55% is represented in the very-high quality category and only 9% by the lower category. In addition, there is 26% overlap between high resource potential values and very-high wilderness values.

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Vegetation and prescribed fire: Implications for Stone's sheep and elk

2018

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Fire is the dominant single natural disturbance influencing northern mountain and boreal landscapes. We evaluated fire-induced changes in forage resources for 2 focal ungulates, Stone's sheep (Ovis dalli stonei) and elk (Cervus canadensis), in northern British Columbia, Canada. We implemented 4 prescribed fires and monitored short-term vegetation (quantity and quality) and ungulate (Stone's sheep and elk) responses. We took measurements prior to burning, the year of burning, and 1 year after burning in treatment areas and adjacent unburned control areas in winter and summer at 2 scales. At a fine scale, we used vegetation transects and pellet counts; at the landscape scale, we used Landsat imagery for vegetation and aerial survey flights for animals. Following prescribed fire, shrub cover declined and burned communities increased in herbaceous cover. Plant species diversity also declined but increased to almost that of unburned areas by 1 year after burning. Burning increased quality of forage most (2-7 percentage points more digestibility and 0.3-6.3 percentage points more crude protein than unburned areas) in the summer of the burn. In winter, forage biomass and available digestible dry matter increased to pre-burn levels by 1 year after burning. Stone's sheep and elk always used burned areas more than unburned control areas in winter at both scales. Whereas elk used sites with higher forage quantity, Stone's sheep appeared to respond to forage quality at the fine scale. Ungulate grazing during the 2 years of this study did not alter forage quantity on burned or unburned sites, as determined from range exclosures. Based on our findings in this area, maximum benefits to elk would be achieved from large prescribed fires on south-aspect slopes that result in the greatest amounts of forage biomass. Smaller prescribed fires at high burn intensities on west-aspect slopes intermixed with rocky outcrops and talus scree (less frequented by elk) would most benefit Stone's sheep requirements for highquality forage and escape terrain. Ó 2018 The Wildlife Society.

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Potential conflict between future development of natural resources and high-value wildlife habitats in boreal landscapes

Cited by 12 publications

References 102 publications

Linking Biophysical and Economic Assessments of Ecosystem Services for a Social–Ecological Approach to Conservation Planning: Application in a Biosphere Reserve (Biscay, Spain)

Linking Biophysical and Economic Assessments of Ecosystem Services for a Social–Ecological Approach to Conservation Planning: Application in a Biosphere Reserve (Biscay, Spain)

Mapping wilderness character in the Muskwa-Kechika Management Area

Vegetation and prescribed fire: Implications for Stone's sheep and elk

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