Spatio-temporal dynamics of regulating ecosystem services in Europe – The role of past and future land use change

Stürck, Julia; Schulp, Catharina J.E.; Verburg, Peter H.

doi:10.1016/j.apgeog.2015.06.009

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“…As addressed in Section 3, LULC change and land fragmentation measured with landscape metrics helped quantitatively illustrate the spatiotemporal pattern of deteriorated ecosystem services delivery during recent rural-urban transition. Such findings, which dynamically embodied the linkage between ESV cost/benefit supplying and LULC change [11,[57][58][59], can not only be used for retrospective review of previous LULC change and its consequent ecological loss, but be borrowed as baseline for varying land development scenarios. These results can further base scientific soundness for local authorities' decision-making process throughout making regulations, decisions, and policies towards effectively guiding land use and regulating the stakeholders' land development intensity.…”

Section: Implications For Policies Towards Sustainable Land Use and Ementioning

confidence: 99%

Analyzing Three-Decadal Patterns of Land Use/Land Cover Change and Regional Ecosystem Services at the Landscape Level: Case Study of Two Coastal Metropolitan Regions, Eastern China

Cai

et al. 2016

Sustainability

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Rapid urbanization, land scarcity, and accompanying ecological deterioration in China have received growing attention. In this paper, two fast-growing metropolitan regions, Greater Shanghai and Greater Hangzhou, were selected as case studies to quantify the impact of land use/land cover (LULC) change on regional ecosystem services value (ESV) at the landscape scale since the late 1970s. The results show that in both regions, dramatic LULC change, especially recent land development at the urban fringes, led to a steady decline in the available area of productive agricultural land, natural land and semi-natural land. This consequently caused remarkable landscape fragmentation along the urban-rural gradient as measured by five class-level landscape metrics. It was estimated that in Greater Shanghai, regulating, supporting, provisioning, and cultural ESVs decreased by 32.05%, 17.89%, 53.72%, and 17.06%, respectively. In Greater Hangzhou, these values decreased by 27.82%, 23.86%, 28.62%, and 22.85%, respectively. In addition, the relationship is quantified between zonal buffer-based ESV and class-level landscape metrics. Further analysis shows that spatiotemporal patterns of zonal ESVs along the urban-rural gradient in these two regions exhibited unbalanced patterns of ecological services delivery.

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Section: Implications For Policies Towards Sustainable Land Use and Ementioning

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Analyzing Three-Decadal Patterns of Land Use/Land Cover Change and Regional Ecosystem Services at the Landscape Level: Case Study of Two Coastal Metropolitan Regions, Eastern China

Cai

et al. 2016

Sustainability

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“…Our analysis contributes to this challenge by quantifying cumulative and individual contributions of climatological drivers to ES change, as well as the spatial structure of other nonclimatological drivers. Only a few studies ) combined both types of drivers in their analysis, while most focused exclusively on climate change (Nelson et al 2013, Scholes 2016 or land use change , Schirpke et al 2013, St€ urck et al 2015, Guerra et al 2016b, Martinez-Harms et al 2017. Therefore, our analysis represents a step forward in tackling the challenge of investigating effects of both climatological and non-climatological drivers on ES.…”

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Ecosystem service change caused by climatological and non‐climatological drivers: a Swiss case study

Braun

Jong

Schaepman

et al. 2019

Ecological Applications

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Understanding the drivers of ecosystem change and their effects on ecosystem services are essential for management decisions and verification of progress towards national and international sustainability policies (e.g., Aichi Biodiversity Targets, Sustainable Development Goals). We aim to disentangle spatially the effect of climatological and non‐climatological drivers on ecosystem service supply and trends. Therefore, we explored time series of three ecosystem services in Switzerland between 2004 and 2014: carbon dioxide regulation, soil erosion prevention, and air quality regulation. We applied additive models to describe the spatial variation attributed to climatological (i.e., temperature, precipitation and relative sunshine duration) and non‐climatological drivers (i.e., random effects representing other spatially structured processes) that may affect ecosystem service change. Obtained results indicated strong influences of climatological drivers on ecosystem service trends in Switzerland. We identified equal contributions of all three climatological drivers on trends of carbon dioxide regulation and soil erosion prevention, while air quality regulation was more strongly influenced by temperature. Additionally, our results showed that climatological and non‐climatological drivers affected ecosystem services both negatively and positively, depending on the regions (in particular lower and higher altitudinal areas), drivers, and services assessed. Our findings highlight stronger effects of climatological compared to non‐climatological drivers on ecosystem service change in Switzerland. Furthermore, drivers of ecosystem change display a spatial heterogeneity in their influence on ecosystem service trends. We propose an approach building on an additive model to disentangle the effect of climatological and non‐climatological drivers on ecosystem service trends. Such analyses should be extended in the future to ecosystem service flow and demand to complete ecosystem service assessments and to demonstrate and communicate more clearly the benefits of ecosystem services for human well‐being.

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“…However, the dynamic aspects of ES supply and demand have hardly been considered yet [13]. While in some cases ES providing and benefiting areas overlap, in others they do not.…”

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“…However, up to now there have been very few attempts to quantify ES flows. In addition, temporal dynamics, such as historic and future land use change, can also influence ES supply and demand [13]. Finally, a recent study [31] on marine and coastal ES explores the social and ecological dynamics of ES, called ecosystem service elasticity.…”

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Social-Ecological Dynamics of Ecosystem Services: Livelihoods and the Functional Relation between Ecosystem Service Supply and Demand—Evidence from Socotra Archipelago, Yemen and the Sahel Region, West Africa

2017

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Abstract:In aiming to halt global biodiversity loss, it is essential to address underlying societal processes. The concept of ecosystem services claims to bridge between biodiversity and society. At the same time there is a considerable research gap regarding how ecosystem services are provided, and how societal activities and dynamics influence the provision of ecosystem services. Interactions and dependencies between ecosystem services supply and demand come to the fore but context-specific dynamics have largely been neglected. This article is a critical reflection on the current research of ecosystem services supply and demand. We argue that there is a functional relation between the supply and demand for ecosystem services, with the two influencing each other. Scientific interest should focus on both the temporal and spatial dynamics of ecosystem services supply and demand. Presenting two studies from Socotra Archipelago, Yemen and the Sahel regions in Senegal and Mali, West Africa, we illustrate that the society behind the demand for ecosystem services is highly interrelated with ecosystem services supply. We thus advocate the adoption of a social-ecological perspective for current research on ecosystem services supply and demand in order to address these context-specific temporal and spatial dynamics.

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Spatio-temporal dynamics of regulating ecosystem services in Europe – The role of past and future land use change

Cited by 95 publications

References 69 publications

Analyzing Three-Decadal Patterns of Land Use/Land Cover Change and Regional Ecosystem Services at the Landscape Level: Case Study of Two Coastal Metropolitan Regions, Eastern China

Analyzing Three-Decadal Patterns of Land Use/Land Cover Change and Regional Ecosystem Services at the Landscape Level: Case Study of Two Coastal Metropolitan Regions, Eastern China

Ecosystem service change caused by climatological and non‐climatological drivers: a Swiss case study

Social-Ecological Dynamics of Ecosystem Services: Livelihoods and the Functional Relation between Ecosystem Service Supply and Demand—Evidence from Socotra Archipelago, Yemen and the Sahel Region, West Africa

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