Interactions between changes in land cover and potential of ecosystem services in Lithuania at temporal and spatial scale

IF 3.1 3区环境科学与生态学 Q2 ECOLOGY

Ecological Complexity Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI:10.1016/j.ecocom.2022.100984

Gintarė Sujetovienė, Giedrius Dabašinskas

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Abstract

The growing interest in ecosystem services is mainly related to land use changes. The aim of the study is to analyse spatial-temporal changes in the capacity to supply of ES in Lithuania based on land use changes in 1990–2018. The results show some balance between loss and gains of ecosystem services capacity due to land use changes. Decrease in heterogenous agricultural areas had negative impact on provision of ecosystem integrity and services. Considerable increase in scrubland and herbaceous vegetation areas significantly increased the ecosystem service potential. The conversion of former agricultural land to less intensively managed ecosystems enhance the potential of valuable habitats for biodiversity and ecosystem services associated with natural grasslands, moors and heathland, transitional woodland shrubs. The urbanization process along with increase in urban fabric areas had little effect on ESs potential since artificial vegetated areas had compensated the loss of ESs due to increased areas of urbanized ecosystems. Despite the area of open spaces slightly increased, this led to decrease of provision of ESs. Temporal changes in overall ESs capacity indicated an increase in Lithuania over the last two decades. Given the observed dynamic context of land cover, the structure of ecosystem services may face potential threats from land use change due to urban development and agricultural activities.

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立陶宛土地覆盖变化与生态系统服务潜力的时空相互作用

对生态系统服务日益增长的兴趣主要与土地利用变化有关。该研究的目的是基于1990-2018年土地利用变化分析立陶宛ES供应能力的时空变化。结果表明，由于土地利用变化，生态系统服务能力的损益之间存在一定的平衡。异质性农业区的减少对生态系统完整性和服务的提供产生了负面影响。灌丛和草本植被面积的显著增加显著提高了生态系统服务潜力。将以前的农业用地转变为集约管理较少的生态系统，增加了与天然草原、沼泽和石楠地、过渡林地灌木有关的生物多样性和生态系统服务的宝贵生境的潜力。城市化进程和城市肌构面积的增加对生态环境潜力的影响不大，因为人工植被面积弥补了城市化生态系统面积增加所造成的生态环境潜力损失。虽然休憩用地的面积略有增加，但这导致社会福利的供应减少。总ESs容量的时间变化表明立陶宛在过去二十年中有所增加。鉴于观测到的土地覆盖动态背景，城市发展和农业活动导致的土地利用变化可能对生态系统服务结构构成潜在威胁。

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Ecological Complexity 环境科学-生态学

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7.10

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3 months

期刊介绍： Ecological Complexity is an international journal devoted to the publication of high quality, peer-reviewed articles on all aspects of biocomplexity in the environment, theoretical ecology, and special issues on topics of current interest. The scope of the journal is wide and interdisciplinary with an integrated and quantitative approach. The journal particularly encourages submission of papers that integrate natural and social processes at appropriately broad spatio-temporal scales. Ecological Complexity will publish research into the following areas: • All aspects of biocomplexity in the environment and theoretical ecology • Ecosystems and biospheres as complex adaptive systems • Self-organization of spatially extended ecosystems • Emergent properties and structures of complex ecosystems • Ecological pattern formation in space and time • The role of biophysical constraints and evolutionary attractors on species assemblages • Ecological scaling (scale invariance, scale covariance and across scale dynamics), allometry, and hierarchy theory • Ecological topology and networks • Studies towards an ecology of complex systems • Complex systems approaches for the study of dynamic human-environment interactions • Using knowledge of nonlinear phenomena to better guide policy development for adaptation strategies and mitigation to environmental change • New tools and methods for studying ecological complexity