Pub Date : 2024-04-17DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2024.101621
Marco Nilgen , Julian Rode , Tobias Vorlaufer , Björn Vollan
The behavior of local natural resource users is not only affected by economic incentives but also by a diverse set of motivations and underlying values. These non-monetary drivers are crucial in safeguarding long-term positive conservation outcomes. However, measuring these factors still constitutes a significant challenge. Building on lessons learned from established methodology such as attitudinal or behavioral measures, we showcase how a contingent valuation method and experimental donation tasks can be used to measure relative changes in non-use values and are a good proxy for conservation preferences. We exemplify this approach within the context of a case study in northern Namibia, where it was employed to investigate whether exposure to a community-based conservation program affects individual conservation preferences. Our findings show that our approach can serve as a complement to established measures for conservation preferences while avoiding some of the existing pitfalls such as demand effects or costly data collection associated with behavioral and attitudinal measures.
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Pub Date : 2024-04-11DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2024.101622
Tegegne Molla Sitotaw , Louise Willemen , Derege Tsegaye Meshesha , Andrew Nelson
Human activities have rapidly altered natural ecosystems worldwide, resulting in fragmented ecosystems that are either culturally or formally protected. These ecosystem patches can be critical for ecosystem services (ES) that support human well-being. In the Ethiopian highlands, the remaining church forests and wetlands have a unique conservation status and are part of the global priority areas for biodiversity conservation. ES flows from these ecosystems to surrounding benefiting areas lack local-scale field evidence data and are not well-understood. Here, we empirically quantify the distance-dependent flows for four ES: grass biomass, microclimate regulation, crop pollination, and soil erosion retention since they exhibit considerable variation in spatial scales and processes of ES flows. The effect of spatial distance on each ES benefit flow was analysed using spatially explicit empirical models. The key findings are as follows: (1) The benefit of ES varies significantly with distance to the source ecosystems. (2) ES supply is determined by the extent (fragmentation) and condition of ecosystems, together with ecosystem type. (3) The quantity and number of ES provided decreases with distance from the source, and beneficiaries up to 3 km of the source only receive one type of ES (grass biomass). Approximately 80 % of the benefiting areas are within a radius of 200 m from forests and wetlands. Bundles of multiple ES types are received at the frontiers of service-providing ecosystems, where number of benefits are compared at particular locations from the source point. The investigated ecosystems (440 km2) provided benefits to 8,770 km2 for the four types of ES. Our findings imply that non-linear effects of key ecosystem variables need to be considered when mapping the distance-dependent ES flows. This study helps to understand the spatial connectivity between ecosystems and beneficiaries in the human-nature interdependency, which is useful for developing different strategies for ES conservation.
人类活动迅速改变了世界各地的自然生态系统,导致生态系统支离破碎,这些生态系统要么受到文化保护,要么受到正式保护。这些生态系统斑块对于支持人类福祉的生态系统服务 (ES) 至关重要。在埃塞俄比亚高原,剩余的教堂森林和湿地具有独特的保护地位,是全球生物多样性保护优先区域的一部分。从这些生态系统流向周边受益地区的生态系统服务(ES)缺乏当地尺度的实地证据数据,也没有得到很好的理解。在此,我们对草地生物量、小气候调节、作物授粉和土壤侵蚀保持这四种生态系统的距离依赖性流动进行了实证量化,因为它们在空间尺度和生态系统流动过程中表现出相当大的差异。利用空间显式经验模型分析了空间距离对每种环境服务效益流的影响。主要结论如下(1) 生态系统惠益随距离源生态系统的远近而显著不同。(2) 生态系统供应由生态系统的范围(破碎化)和状况以及生态系统类型决定。(3) 提供的生态系统服务的数量和种类随距离源的远近而减少,距离源 3 公里以内的受益者只能获得一种生态系统服务(草生物量)。约 80% 的受益区距离森林和湿地半径在 200 米以内。在提供服务的生态系统的前沿可获得多种 ES 类型的捆绑,在此可比较从源点出发的特定地点的受益数量。所调查的生态系统(440 平方公里)为 8,770 平方公里提供了四种 ES 的效益。我们的研究结果表明,在绘制与距离相关的 ES 流量图时,需要考虑关键生态系统变量的非线性效应。这项研究有助于了解人与自然相互依存关系中生态系统与受益者之间的空间连接性,这对制定不同的生态系统服务保护策略非常有用。
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Pub Date : 2024-04-04DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2024.101619
Małgorzata Wistuba , Ireneusz Malik , Yongbo Tie , Elżbieta Gorczyca , Xianzheng Zhang , Jiazhu Wang , Tuo Lu
Landslides are destructive geomorphological processes that cause economic and social losses. This stimulates the development of new tools related to landslide hazard. Recently, trees, their growth rings and dendrochronology have become widely used in landslide studies. Thus, this study aims to explore the potential of trees in providing landslide-monitoring ecosystem services through dendrochronology. In our opinion, establishing such an idea would help promote empirical evidence on the efficiency of tree-ring-based tools to decision-makers. We use the example of a landslide in the Moxi basin, Sichuan, China and present results of dendrochronological analysis of growth eccentricity in 48 Nepalese alder (Alnus nepalensis) trees. This analysis provided data on event timing and magnitudes, average frequency and recurrence interval for reactivation of the study landslide, as well as spatial variability of landslide active. Based on dendrochronological data we were also able to determine the current slope balance and general hazard of landslide reactivation on the study slope. Our study shows that trees and dendrochronology can provide data on the activity of landslides that can complement and improve the results of standard engineering methods. Moreover, dendrochronology itself can provide the full information needed for landslide hazard assessment, monitoring and prediction.
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Pub Date : 2024-04-03DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2024.101618
Roberto Moreno , André Nery , Ricardo Zamora , Ángel Lora , Carmen Galán
Urban green areas, such as parks, squares, and tree-lined streets, are part of nature-based solutions (NBS) that provide ecosystem services to address these urban issues. However, there is limited knowledge about the contribution of tree species and overall ecosystem services provided by urban trees under public management, especially in Latin America. This study aimed to provide information on the contribution of urban trees in reducing highly incident pollutants, such as CO2, particulate matter (PM 2. 5 and 10), and greenhouse effect gas compounds (GEG) in the city of Lima (Peru), using the I-tree package software tool for estimating ecosystem services. The results demonstrate that urban trees under public management in Lima significantly contribute to pollutant reduction and the sequestration and storage of CO2 in the city, being that storage is nearly 50% of the levels observed in native temperate forests in Latin America and higher than the value measured in some xerophytic native forests in the same region. Other evaluated pollutantś levels are significantly reduced. Differences among tree species were observed, showing amatillo (Ficus pertusa L. f.) and red eucalyptus (Eucalyptus camaldulensis Dehnh.) as higher contributions to pollutant reduction, with Erythrina falcata Benth. as a native species having significant carbon storage (1,27 t/individual).
This information is highly relevant for professionals and public institutions involved in urban planning and management, particularly urban tree management. It shows that tree species selection influences the mitigation of pollutant levels in cities while increasing other ecosystem services, thereby contributing to improving citizens' health.
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Air pollution on a worldwide scale poses significant risks to our health and food security. Trees, as ecosystem units, play a huge role in mitigating air pollution but quantifying this ecosystem service in the most polluted regions of the world is difficult due to a lack of relevant data. The ability of trees to mitigate air emissions is evaluated by the i-Tree Eco tool, which uses the tree inventory data based on high-resolution data such as LiDAR, which is predominantly available for the countries in the global north. In contrast, for most countries in the global south, collating such information is difficult and, therefore, obtaining the tree inventory and usage of i-Tree Eco is challenging. To circumvent these lacunae, in this study, we propose a method hinging on remote sensing based on readily available Landsat satellite images. We validate our approach on Balboa Park, San Diego, California, for which both LiDAR and Landsat data are available, and showcase its applicability to the South Delhi and Chennai city regions of India, where LiDAR data are not available.
{"title":"Quantifying ecosystem services from trees by using i-tree with low-resolution satellite images","authors":"Reena Sharma , Bhavik R. Bakshi , Manojkumar Ramteke , Hariprasad Kodamana","doi":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2024.101611","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2024.101611","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Air pollution on a worldwide scale poses significant risks to our health and food security. Trees, as ecosystem units, play a huge role in mitigating air pollution but quantifying this ecosystem service in the most polluted regions of the world is difficult due to a lack of relevant data. The ability of trees to mitigate air emissions is evaluated by the i-Tree Eco tool, which uses the tree inventory data based on high-resolution data such as LiDAR, which is predominantly available for the countries in the global north. In contrast, for most countries in the global south, collating such information is difficult and, therefore, obtaining the tree inventory and usage of i-Tree Eco is challenging. To circumvent these lacunae, in this study, we propose a method hinging on remote sensing based on readily available Landsat satellite images. We validate our approach on Balboa Park, San Diego, California, for which both LiDAR and Landsat data are available, and showcase its applicability to the South Delhi and Chennai city regions of India, where LiDAR data are not available.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51312,"journal":{"name":"Ecosystem Services","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2024-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140320994","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-03-28DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2024.101616
Solen le Clech , Lenny G.J. van Bussel , Marjolein E. Lof , Bart de Knegt , István Szentirmai , Erling Andersen
Linear landscape elements, such as field margins, are agricultural practices whose adoption is supported by agri-environmental climate measures (AECMs). AECMs are meant to improve ecological conditions on farms and surrounding areas. The effectiveness of AECMs to enhance the supply of multiple ecosystem services (ESs) is still debated and knowledge on the resulting ESs bundles under different practices stemming from AECMs is still lacking. We aimed at assessing the potential of AECMs that promote the implementation of linear landscape elements to provide high levels of multiple ESs and at analyzing bundles at landscape level in different geographical contexts. We assessed the potential effects of linear landscape elements (woody, grassy, flower and a mix) on six ESs (food and feed provision, pollination, pest control, climate regulation, aesthetics, and habitat maintenance), combining scenarios and spatially explicit modelling approaches. Our results showed the positive effects of linear landscape elements on all regulating and cultural ESs. The more abundant the linear elements, the higher the overall ESs supply. However, the effect of linear landscape elements on multiple ESs depended on the types of linear elements and the geographical context of their implementation. When the supply of the ES was already high in the baseline situation, the changes induced by the implementation of the linear elements were much lower than when the baseline situation showed a lower initial supply of one or several of the ESs. Our analyses give insights on the efficiency of AECMs on multiple environmental targets. Our approach is a first step towards a general framework for an ex-ante integrated analysis of AECMs that can be used to design agri-environmental policies. From a more practical perspective, our results can form a basis for additional payments for AECMs. Our study also confirms the relevance of the EU biodiversity strategy that commits to ensure at least 10% of agricultural area as high-biodiversity landscape features such as linear landscape elements, and the relevance of the enhanced conditionality and eco-schemes in the reformed Common agricultural Policy targeting non-productive elements and biodiversity.
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Pub Date : 2024-03-25DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2024.101617
Md. Nazmul Haque , Ayyoob Sharifi
Ecosystem services are crucial for urban resilience, climate change adaptation and mitigation, and sustainable development. Incorporating these services in urban environments involves various principles, partnerships, organizational strategies, and methodologies. A vast body of research exists on ecosystem services. However, there is a lack of studies that address equity concerns in access to urban ecosystem services. This paper critically reviews the literature to investigate the state of access to ecosystem services in urban areas. We use deductive content analysis for this purpose. We explore traditional concepts of justice and update them by examining the sources and types of ecosystem services in urban environments. We examine justice typology considering various social, environmental, infrastructural, ecological, and mobility issues. We also explore different justice dimensions, including distributional, procedural, recognitional, and restorative issues. Results showed a notable prioritization of green infrastructures (73%) over blue infrastructures (5%). Furthermore, there has been an apparent emphasis on cultural services (42%) and regulating services (25%) in offering recreational activities, fostering social integration, improving place-making capabilities, showcasing adaptability, and demonstrating resilience. An important finding is that most of the publications (87%) highlight that there is no justice in access to ecosystem services. Regarding typologies, we found that there has been more attention to environmental justice, and infrastructural, ecological, and mobility justice are underexplored. As for dimensions, more attention has been paid to distributional and recognitional justice at the cost of restorative justice. A key shortcoming is that cities in the Global South are not adequately represented in the literature, despite their significance for achieving sustainable urban development in the coming decades.
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Pub Date : 2024-03-21DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2024.101615
Stephanie Natho , Paul Hudson
Floodplains are among the most valuable and most threatened ecosystems. Worldwide, degradation and restoration are taking place at the same time. In Germany, more than 90% of the floodplains are degraded, and restoration is carried out through several projects because the benefits floodplains provide are already known, though not yet quantified. Decision makers and politicians are still in need of economic values, e.g. for cost-benefit analyses. Therefore, we sought to conduct a review of ecosystem services (ES) in German floodplains to provide a policy-relevant summary of estimated ES valuation efforts. While there are many reviews and meta-analyses in the scientific literature, they use data on an international scale. While international synthesis has value, assuming internationally synthesized values can be used to represent local or national values can be problematic due to unknowable transfer errors. In focusing on only German studies, we found that there were not enough data available for a German floodplain meta-analysis or review that could produce locally policy-relevant information. Only five floodplain ES were investigated in 14 studies between the years 2000 and 2021 within Germany, which provided enough data and study descriptions for a comparison of homogenized values. In total, ES of more than 4000 €2015/ha/yr were provided for German floodplains, which is much lower than global reviews, however, because of which and how ES are considered. There is an urgent need for representative studies examining how ecosystem values are generated and perceived to provide locally relevant information. There is a strong focus within meta-analytical studies on the international scale to overcome the data scarcity issue at the expense of local relevance. This is a fundamental trade-off that must be acknowledged.
洪泛平原是最宝贵也是最受威胁的生态系统之一。在世界范围内,退化和恢复同时进行。在德国,90% 以上的洪泛平原已经退化,恢复工作通过多个项目进行,因为洪泛平原带来的益处虽然尚未量化,但已经为人所知。决策者和政治家仍然需要经济价值,例如用于成本效益分析。因此,我们试图对德国洪泛区的生态系统服务 (ES) 进行回顾,以提供与政策相关的 ES 估值工作总结。虽然科学文献中有许多综述和荟萃分析,但它们使用的都是国际范围内的数据。虽然国际综合分析有其价值,但由于不可知的转移误差,假设国际综合分析得出的数值可用于代表地方或国家的数值可能会有问题。在只关注德国研究的过程中,我们发现没有足够的数据可用于德国洪泛区荟萃分析或综述,从而产生与当地政策相关的信息。2000 年至 2021 年期间,在德国的 14 项研究中只调查了 5 个洪泛区 ES,这些研究提供了足够的数据和研究说明,可用于比较同质化数值。总体而言,德国洪泛平原的 ES 值超过了 4000 欧元/公顷/年,但由于 ES 的考量对象和考量方式不同,这一数值远低于全球评估值。目前急需开展具有代表性的研究,考察生态系统价值是如何产生和被感知的,以提供与当地相关的信息。荟萃分析研究非常重视国际规模,以克服数据稀缺问题,但却牺牲了地方相关性。这是必须承认的基本权衡。
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Pub Date : 2024-03-14DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2024.101614
Yingyi Cheng , Bing Zhao , Siqi Peng , Kai Li , Yue Yin , Jinguang Zhang
National Forest Parks (NFPs) represent the highest level of the forest park system in China and have long been considered to cultivate positive experiences among visitors through their rich cultural services. However, there is limited knowledge of the relationship between the cultural dimension of landscape services (CLSs) in NFPs and visitors’ positive experiences. This study represents the first effort to investigate the effects of NFP CLSs on visitors’ expressed sentiments and aims to further identify the relative importance of various CLS features. A total of 267 NFPs across 31 provinces in China were selected as case studies, and approximately 300,000 visitors’ online comments from a widely used travel platform (CTrip) were obtained for sentiment analysis using natural language processing. A novel systematic framework for assessing CLSs was proposed, encompassing five principal features and 19 indicator subcategories. Ordinary least-squares and spatial regression models were used to reveal associations between NFP CLSs and expressed sentiments, whereas the XGBoost model and Shapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP) values were employed to identify the relative importance of NFP CLS features. Three major findings were observed: First, the feature scoring of CLSs in NFPs was unevenly distributed across the country, with scores along the eastern seaboard relatively higher than those inland in the northwest. Second, beneficial associations between the five principal CLS features and visitors’ expressed sentiments were suggested. Third, the influence of landscape aesthetics was particularly prominent in promoting visitors’ positive sentiments, followed by education, physical activities and health, recreation and tourism, and cultural heritage and spiritual practices. These findings provide valuable insights for health-oriented NFP management, policies, and planning.
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Pub Date : 2024-03-13DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2024.101612
Eeva Primmer , Eeva Furman
In 2012 we sought to operationalize ecosystem services for governance, and asked in our Ecosystem Services paper (Primmer and Furman, 2012): “Do measuring, mapping and valuing integrate sector-specific knowledge systems?” Since our paper, much operationalization and innovation work has been done toward integration. In this paper, we analyze articles addressing governance of ecosystem services and measuring, mapping and valuation from 2013 to today. Our review shows that much of the research addressing governance does it in relatively distanced ways, suggesting analytical and operational tools and improvements, rather than analyzing governance in-depth. Yet, it is apparent that over the ten years, inventorying of ecosystem services has given way to meaningfully integrated assessments and trade-off analyses as well as to in-depth analyses of stakeholder perceptions and argumentation. Participatory approaches, stakeholder mapping and actors’ roles have been integrated with more technical mapping, grounding analyses in decision-making. Valuation has become routine, yet also more explorative and in-depth, feeding to specific decision-making situations and general policy discussions. Based on the still existing gaps, we suggest that while measuring, mapping and governance should continue to be integrated into governance processes, also the political and administrative processes driving governance need a strong message from the scientific community analyzing ecosystem services governance; so strong that it is on par with the alarming messages about the state and trends of biodiversity and ecosystem services. Governance research has already produced the core message: Securing sustainability of ecosystem service provision, together with safeguarding ecosystem functions and the biodiversity that those functions rely on, requires knowledge integrating locally adapted tools and engaging transparent policy processes.
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