The Impact of Land-Use Change on Ecosystem Services, Biodiversity and Returns to Landowners: A Case Study in the State of Minnesota

Polasky, Stephen; Nelson, Erik; Pennington, Derric; Johnson, Kris

doi:10.1007/s10640-010-9407-0

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“…The model uses habitat quality (Polasky et al, 2011) as a proxy for biodiversity assessment. Generally, degradation of habitat quality is caused by the intensity of nearby land-use expansion in relation to intensive human activities.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Conservation areas and protected lands were considered sites with minimum accessibility and were assigned a threat level of 0, while polygons with maximum accessibility were assigned 1 (Himlal et al, 2014;Tallis et al, 2013;Polasky et al, 2011) Sensitivity of habitat types to each threats A table of LUCC types. Sensitivity values range from 0 to 1 where 0 represents no sensitivity to a threat and 1 represents the greatest sensitivity.…”

Section: Land Management Scenarios In the Watershedmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Sensitivity values range from 0 to 1 where 0 represents no sensitivity to a threat and 1 represents the greatest sensitivity. Sensitivity scores were determined from the literature and expert knowledge (Himlal et al, 2014;Tallis et al, 2013;Polasky et al, 2011) Half-saturation constant…”

Section: Land Management Scenarios In the Watershedmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Simulating land-use change and its effect on biodiversity conservation in a watershed in northwest China

Liang

Liu

2017

Ecosyst Health Sustain

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Introduction: Land-use management strategies play a major role in biodiversity change. In many parts of the world, local governments are under increasing pressure to regulate human activity to mitigate negative impacts on ecosystems. Outcomes/other: This study aimed to analyze the effects of different land-use patterns on biodiversity change across a typical artificial desert watershed. We first analyzed land-cover change based on past and future management scenarios in a watershed spanning Gaotai, Linze, and Ganzhou counties in northwest China. We then analyzed the effect of different land-use patterns on biodiversity change in the watershed. We found that the crucial landcover changes are likely to occur in the wetland reserves and areas established for the Grain for Green Project around the oases, and such changes could affect biodiversity throughout the entire watershed landscape. Discussion: The use of spatial analysis to illustrate explicit changes in ecosystems is useful in fostering biodiversity awareness and the need for decision-making at different scales. Conclusion: Thus, these findings indicate that land-use management strategies for the middle and southeast parts of the watershed are particularly important for future management of biodiversity and the integrated ecosystem services of the entire watershed landscape.

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Simulating land-use change and its effect on biodiversity conservation in a watershed in northwest China

Liang

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2017

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“…The prospect of agricultural intensification reinforced views that the future of biodiversity in the Midlands demanded a 21 more sophisticated approach to dealing with socio--economic dimensions of the system, which is reasonable given experiences in other landscapes (Polasky, Nelson, Pennington, & Johnson, 2011).…”

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Fit-for-Purpose Institutions? An Evaluation of Biodiversity Conservation in the Agricultural Landscape of the Tasmanian Midlands, Australia

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Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning

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Biodiversity loss is a globally significant problem. Institutional failure to halt this loss suggests current arrangements are not fit for the purpose of conserving biodiversity. The objective of this paper is to diagnose institutional fitness for conserving biodiversity in the Tasmanian Midlands of Australia, a 2 highly modified agricultural landscape with critically endangered biodiversity values. This paper presents and applies a novel diagnostic framework that adopts a broad view of institutional fit, drawing on concepts from adaptive governance, institutional theory, and public administration, and finds four areas of poor fit that can guide reform efforts. The first is a narrow framing of biodiversity objectives, leading to neglect of key social and ecological concerns. Second, the interplay of current arrangements fails to buffer key economic and political drivers, and compromises adaptive capacity. Third, limited government authority and embedded power relations raise questions about the effectiveness and fairness of current approaches. Finally, the reluctance of governments to devolve authority and decision--making powers to self--organizing networks constrains adaptation. This suite of fit problems constrains achievement of biodiversity conservation, particularly in dealing with landscape multifunctionality, the need to balance private landholder rights and responsibilities, and the need to consider how to respond to emerging novel and hybrid ecosystems.

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“…Land use changes affect ecosystem services directly by changing ecosystem types, patterns and ecological processes. Therefore, land use change is an important driving force for changes in ecosystem services (Nelson et al, 2010;Polasky et al, 2011;Wardrop et al, 2011). Because land use change has become the focus of studies on global change, its impacts on ecosystem services have also attracted increasing attention (Folke et al, 2002;Daily et al, 2009;Swetnam et al, 2011).…”

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Spatio-temporal characteristics of disturbance of land use change on major ecosystem function zones in China

2015

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Abstract:In recent years, because of increasing human activities, ecosystems have been substantially disturbed and their service functions have been greatly compromised. Based on the effect of land use changes on the major ecosystem services, we estimated the ecosystem comprehensive anthropogenic disturbance index (ECADI) and analyzed the spatio-temporal characteristics of changes in the ECADI in China from 1990 to 2010. The average ECADI of the major ecosystem function zones in China in 2010 is approximately 0.382. The ECADI of Northeast China and North China is slightly higher than that of Northwest China and Southwest China. Most zones have slight changes in the ECADI. The average increases of ECADI in the major ecosystem function zones in China from 1990 to 2000 and from 2000 to 2010 are 0.0024 and 0.0002, respectively. The increase is mainly due to reclamation and urbanization, whereas the decrease is due to the implementation of ecosystem protection policies. During the last 20 years, the ECADI of water resources conservation zones increased first, and then stopped. The ECADI of soil conservation zones increased first, and then declined. The ECADI of sandstorm prevention zones, biodiversity conservation zones and flooding mitigation zones increased continuously. Our results may provide proposals to the government regarding land use planning and ecosystem protection plans in the major ecosystem zones. The major ecosystem function zones in the western part of China have been protected effectively. However, the major ecosystem function zones in the eastern part of China require more protection in the future. Keywords: land use change; major ecosystems services; disturbance; spatiotemporal patterns; China Citation: Ning Jia, Liu Jiyuan, Zhao Guosong, 2015. Spatio-temporal characteristics of disturbance of land use change on major ecosystem function zones in China.

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The Impact of Land-Use Change on Ecosystem Services, Biodiversity and Returns to Landowners: A Case Study in the State of Minnesota

Abstract: Ecosystem services, Biodiversity, Land use, Private returns to landowners, Net social benefits, Tradeoffs,

Cited by 622 publications

References 44 publications

Simulating land-use change and its effect on biodiversity conservation in a watershed in northwest China

Simulating land-use change and its effect on biodiversity conservation in a watershed in northwest China

Fit-for-Purpose Institutions? An Evaluation of Biodiversity Conservation in the Agricultural Landscape of the Tasmanian Midlands, Australia

Spatio-temporal characteristics of disturbance of land use change on major ecosystem function zones in China

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