Synergies and trade-offs in ecosystem services from urban and peri‑urban forests and their implication to sustainable city design and planning

Cueva, Jessica; Yakouchenkova, Iulia Almeida; Fröhlich, Katrin; Dermann, Anna Floria; Dermann, Florian; Köhler, Mario; Großmann, Josef; Meier, Winfried; Bauhus, Jürgen; Schröder, Dietrich; Sardemann, G.; Thomas, Carolin; Carnicero, Arturo Romero; Saha, Somidh

doi:10.1016/j.scs.2022.103903

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“…Paired ecosystem services may show a trade-off relationship in one region and synergistic relationships in other regions. This finding aligns with several previous studies that highlighted heterogeneity within urban ecosystems [6,40,41]. For example, for the carbon sequestration-water retention pair, the coastline of the Pearl River estuary was an LL synergy area; however, the partial region of northern Guangdong and Western Guangdong were HL or LH trade-off areas.…”

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“…Human interference is strong in this region, exhibited by intense land development and the destruction of various ecological environments due to industrial development. The same is happening in other parts of the world with rapid urbanization [40,41]. This decline in ecosystem service capacity and destruction of natural vegetation inhibit the positive succession of ecosystems, reducing their regulatory service capacity.…”

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Spatial Trade-Offs and Synergies between Ecosystem Services in Guangdong Province, China

Xu,

Yang,

Yang

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The trade-offs between ecosystem services directly affect the quality of the ecological environment and the survival and development of human society, which is of great concern to academia, governments, and non-governmental organizations. Guangdong Province is a strong economic performer in China; hence, we selected it to explore the trade-off and synergy differences between different ecosystem services, and to investigate the mechanisms of their influence in economically developed regions with a large population density. Our results showed three main points: (1) The ecosystem services in Guangdong Province showed clear spatial heterogeneity. In addition, northern Guangdong has high levels of water retention, with a value of 5804.73 × 104 m3/km2 and high values for carbon sequestration and soil retention. Western Guangdong is a functional area for food production, and the Pearl River Delta is an economically developed region with low levels of ecosystem services. (2) Overall, in Guangdong Province, three pairs of ecosystem services, namely water retention–soil retention, carbon sequestration–water retention, and carbon sequestration–soil retention, showed a strong positive correlation and good synergistic relationships. The other three pairs of relationships show strong trade-off effects. (3) The relationships between similar ecosystem services show completely different characteristics in different regions. Carbon sequestration and water retention, carbon sequestration and biodiversity conservation, water retention and biodiversity conservation, and soil retention and biodiversity conservation were mainly manifested in high–high synergies, particularly in northern Guangdong; carbon sequestration and soil retention and water retention and soil retention, primarily manifested synergies; carbon sequestration and food production, water retention and food production, and soil retention and food production mainly manifested as trade-off relationships.

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Spatial Trade-Offs and Synergies between Ecosystem Services in Guangdong Province, China

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Yang,

Yang

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“…Guangdong Province is a large economic province in China and its economic center is mainly distributed in the Pearl River Delta region. Human interference is strong in this region, exhibited by intense land development and the destruction of various ecological environments due to industrial development (Jafarzadeh et al, 2021;Cueva et al, 2022). This decline of ecosystem service capacity and destruction of natural vegetation inhibit the positive succession of ecosystems, reducing their regulatory service capacity.…”

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Spatial trade-offs and synergies among ecosystem services in Guangdong Province, China

Xu,

Yang,

Yang

et al. 2023

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The trade-offs between ecosystem services directly affect the quality of the ecological environment and the survival and development of human society, which is of great concern to academia, governments, and non-governmental organizations. Based on ecosystem service data from the Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the trade-offs and synergies among different ecosystem services in Guangdong Province in China were analyzed. Moreover, the differences in their impact and impact mechanisms were investigated. Our results showed three main points: (1) The ecosystem services in Guangdong Province showed clear spatial heterogeneity. Also, Northern Guangdong has high water retention, with a value of 5,804.73×104 m3/km2 and high values for carbon sequestration and soil retention. Western Guangdong is a functional area for food production, and the Pearl River Delta is an economically developed region. (2) In the overall Guangdong Province, three pairs of ecosystem services, namely water retention–soil, carbon sequestration–water, and carbon sequestration–soil retention, showed a strong positive correlation and a good synergistic relationship. The other three pairs of relationships show strong trade-off effects. (3) The trade-offs and synergies between pairs of ecosystem services are clearly different in space, and the relationships between the same ecosystem services show completely different characteristics in different regions, resulting from the complex influence of different natural local conditions and human activities.

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“…As related research progresses, a range of assessment methods and mathematical models have been developed to measure the interaction between distinct functions, for example, correlation analysis (Turkelboom et al, 2018), scenario simulation (Egoh et al, 2011), coupling coordination degree model (Han et al, 2022), and production possibility frontier (Vallet et al, 2018). These studies have made substantial progress and found that the trade‐off/synergy among distinct functions in natural and semi‐natural ecosystems are unevenly distributed across space due to different geographical contexts and diversified human activities (Cueva et al, 2022; Verburg et al, 2009). The evolution process of these trade‐offs/synergies significantly affected the stability and security of territorial space, thereby inhibiting its sustainable development (Rallings et al, 2019).…”

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Exploring the urban–rural gradient effects of construction land expansion processes on land use function trade‐off/synergy in rapidly urbanizing areas

Li,

Zhu,

Deng

2023

Land Degrad Dev

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Construction land expansion greatly affects the supply and interaction of distinct land use functions, particularly in rapidly urbanizing areas. However, existing research rarely focuses on the urban–rural gradient role of different construction land expansion processes in affecting the interactions between land use functions, which limits the refined high‐quality development of territorial space. Using the main urban area of Hangzhou as an example, this research analyzed the spatiotemporal transmission process of trade‐offs/synergies among distinct functions between urban and rural regions from the living‐production‐ecological function perspective, and probed the differences in the impact of distinct urban and rural construction land expansion processes on them across different urban–rural gradients, thereby proposing the urban–rural spatial development pathways for promoting synergistic territorial spatial patterns. The results showed that the changes in different functions had an obvious urban–rural gradient difference. During 2000–2020, the trade‐off between living function and other functions increased continuously, and regions with a higher trade‐off primarily shifted from urban development areas to urban–rural transition areas. The infilling and edge‐expansion of urban construction land were more favorable to the increased synergy between distinct functions; the infilling and edge‐expansion of rural construction land in urban development and urban–rural transition areas greatly reduced the functional trade‐off level, while its leapfrogging in rural development areas strongly affected the synergy between distinct functions. These findings can help to restrict unreasonable urban and rural construction land expansion processes as well as promote synergistic territorial space patterns in rapidly urbanizing regions.

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Synergies and trade-offs in ecosystem services from urban and peri‑urban forests and their implication to sustainable city design and planning

Cited by 48 publications

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Spatial Trade-Offs and Synergies between Ecosystem Services in Guangdong Province, China

Spatial Trade-Offs and Synergies between Ecosystem Services in Guangdong Province, China

Spatial trade-offs and synergies among ecosystem services in Guangdong Province, China

Exploring the urban–rural gradient effects of construction land expansion processes on land use function trade‐off/synergy in rapidly urbanizing areas

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