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{"title":"Incorporating ecosystem service assessments into development planning − impact from a dredging project in South Australia on seagrass","authors":"Sam Gaylard ,&nbsp;Rachel Colella ,&nbsp;Matt Nelson ,&nbsp;Paul Lavery ,&nbsp;Michelle Waycott","doi":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2025.101738","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2025.101738","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Major infrastructure development is required for economic development and to improve human well-being, however conflict exists between developers and the community. Environmental impact assessment (EIA) is used in over 100 countries to evaluate potential impacts of major developments across environment, economy, and social benchmarks. However, EIA has been criticized for a lack of transparency and accountability, lack of consultation or participation and inadequate science. An ecosystem service assessment (ESA) recognizes the links between the environment and the socio-economic environment, resulting in a more holistic evaluation of potential impacts and effective community consultation. Despite this, its inclusion within EIA’s is rare.</div><div>An ESA was trialled within the evaluation stage of an EIA for a large capital dredging project in Adelaide, South Australia, an area dominated by long-lived seagrass. The process highlighted significant value to society from seagrass meadows, delivering provisioning, regulating and cultural services and many of these were at risk from the dredging proposal causing conflict with the community. The ESA provided clarity in links between ecological and social economic systems, assisting genuine and transparent engagement with the stakeholders and community. Monetary valuation of services provided context to decision makers arguing for changes to proposed methodology to protect seagrass and ecosystem services. Changes to the proposal resulted in substantially less seagrass loss than originally proposed, helping protect ecosystem services. This case study demonstrated the benefit of including an ESA into major development planning, increasing transparency, reducing conflict with the community, and assisting in providing a social licence to operate.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51312,"journal":{"name":"Ecosystem Services","volume":"74 ","pages":"Article 101738"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144146957","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}

{"title":"Revealing the hidden socioeconomic role of wild forest products for the European bioeconomy","authors":"Viola Di Cori ,&nbsp;Nicolas Robert ,&nbsp;Alfredo José Mainar-Causapé ,&nbsp;Cristiano Franceschinis ,&nbsp;Davide Matteo Pettenella ,&nbsp;Mara Thiene","doi":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2025.101735","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2025.101735","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Despite the increasing attention towards the socioeconomic role of wild forest products (WFPs) − also known as non-wood forest products (NWFPs) − their function as cultural service has yet to receive a comprehensive quantification. This, at least partially, is due to the attention given to WFPs as provisioning services, and their commercial values in the rural economy. In this study, we combined for the first time the economic evaluation of forest ecosystem services with a Social Accounting Matrix methodology to analyse the social component of WFPs in three European countries, namely Czechia, Italy, and Sweden. We estimated that WFPs have a direct effect on transport services, as well as food and accommodation services. At the same time, we estimated the value of household wellbeing via non-market valuation. Overall, our results highlight the value that cultural services linked to WFPs add to European bioeconomy. A better understanding of the complete range of available resources offered by forests can inform future policy decisions aimed at enhancing the socioeconomic benefits for societies while sustainably managing forest ecosystems.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51312,"journal":{"name":"Ecosystem Services","volume":"74 ","pages":"Article 101735"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144124886","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}

{"title":"Integrating multiple landscape management strategies to optimise conservation under climate and planning scenarios: a case study in the Iberian Peninsula","authors":"Miguel Cánibe Iglesias ,&nbsp;Virgilio Hermoso ,&nbsp;João C. Azevedo ,&nbsp;João C. Campos ,&nbsp;José Salgado-Rojas ,&nbsp;Ângelo Sil ,&nbsp;Adrián Regos","doi":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2025.101742","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2025.101742","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Global change demands dynamic landscape management that integrates different strategies (e.g. promoting rewilding or traditional farming practices) to address the impact of climate and land use change. Planning for management strategies individually can lead to severe trade-offs between objectives, high opportunity costs and challenging implementation. Integrated management plans are needed to optimise the combination of multiple management strategies. We used the multi-action planning tool ‘Prioriactions’ to prioritise the spatial allocation of four management strategies (Afforestation, Rewilding, Farmland Return and Agroforestry Return) in the Meseta Ibérica transboundary Biosphere Reserve. We aimed to achieve targets for conservation of species suitable area and ecosystem services supply while minimising fire hazard under different climate scenarios. We tested this approach under contrasting planning scenarios depicting different management priorities (<em>Equally Weighted, Forest Maximising</em> and <em>Open Maximising</em>). By integrating multiple management strategies, we could achieve management goals for biodiversity and ecosystem services under different planning scenarios, minimising trade-offs and deriving recommendations easier to uptake. The spatial allocation and extent of management strategies varied according to climate change and planning scenarios. Afforestation was needed when putting more priority on forest species and carbon sequestration, while more Farmland Return was allocated when preserving open habitat species and agriculture. Fire hazard was higher in Rewilding areas and lower in Farmland Return and Agroforestry Return areas. The novelty of our approach lies in its capacity to combine different management strategies and provide an optimised spatial arrangement based on management features, making it suitable for planning in dynamic and complex environments where multiple pressures and objectives must be considered.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51312,"journal":{"name":"Ecosystem Services","volume":"74 ","pages":"Article 101742"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144099664","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}

{"title":"How much is enough? Applying the law of large numbers to the measurement of interactions between ecosystem services","authors":"David W. Shanafelt","doi":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2025.101736","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2025.101736","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Ecosystem services (ES) are at the forefront of the scientific literature, finding themselves in the research profiles of the National Science Foundation and European Research Council, as well as many other national research agencies. Yet despite many publications on the topic, issues of data availability, quality and quantity, and uncertainty still remain limitations to the field. In a recent analysis, Shanafelt et al. (2023) found a general trend in the interactions between ES when sampling a landscape: sampling ten percent of the landscape was sufficient to recover the mean correlation between ES measured at the landscape scale. In this paper, we delve deeper into this finding. Specifically, we apply Chebyshev’s inequality and the law of large numbers to show that as the sample size increases, the sample correlation between any two ES approaches the “true” value measured from the underlying statistical distributions of those services across the landscape. Furthermore, there exists a sample size in which the difference between the sample correlation and the true value is tolerably null – the “ten’s rule” from Shanafelt et al. (2023). We hypothesize that this sample size depends on the underlying correlation strength between those ES and the similarity between their spatial distributions, and test this hypothesis using regression analysis in theoretically-generated landscapes. Finally, we test our ability to predict this sample size in the actual Shanafelt et al. (2023) data. Our findings have applications for sample and experimental design, as well as for devising and implementing policy.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51312,"journal":{"name":"Ecosystem Services","volume":"74 ","pages":"Article 101736"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144084619","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}

{"title":"Spatial patterns and interactions among multiple cultural ecosystem services across urban greenspaces","authors":"Haojie Cao ,&nbsp;Nataly G. Miguez ,&nbsp;Brittany M. Mason ,&nbsp;Corey T. Callaghan ,&nbsp;Jiangxiao Qiu","doi":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2025.101740","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2025.101740","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Urban greenspaces (UGS) deliver substantial benefits to human wellbeing by providing valuable ecosystem services. Prior research on UGS has been primarily focused on provisioning and regulating services, with comparatively fewer studies explicitly addressing cultural ecosystem services (CES), presumably due to conceptual and methodological challenges in their characterization and quantification. Social media data have emerged as novel datasets that could provide new insights into the quantification of these intangible, highly context-specific, but critically important CES. In this study, we merged multiple platforms, including TripAdvisor and Google Maps that are among the most comprehensive user-generated datasets, to map and quantify the spatial distribution of 11 CES. Employing named-entity recognition models, this study extracted 60,156 textual entities related to CES from scraped reviews, allowing us to categorize 30,599 reviews into different CES types across 426 urban greenspaces. Our research demonstrated substantial spatial heterogeneity in the presence and diversity of CES and identified six key CES bundles, revealing more occurrences of CES synergies than tradeoffs across UGS. Geographical random forest models were applied to determine the relative importance of natural landscape elements, biodiversity proxies, and human utility metrics in explaining the spatial heterogeneity of CES. We found that factors such as greenspace size, tree cover percentage, biodiversity, and water features emerged as strong predictors of CES provision. Our study provides a roadmap and research framework for understanding and quantifying CES in urban settings and has implications for the sustainable planning and management of UGS to improve social wellbeing through the contribution of diverse CES.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51312,"journal":{"name":"Ecosystem Services","volume":"73 ","pages":"Article 101740"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144071752","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}

{"title":"Examining innovative designs of agri-environmental schemes in Europe: A case comparison of impact pathways","authors":"Sven Wunder ,&nbsp;Cecilia Fraccaroli ,&nbsp;Elsa Varela ,&nbsp;Stefano Bruzzese ,&nbsp;Mette Termansen","doi":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2025.101728","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2025.101728","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Agri-environmental schemes (AES), a subtype of payments for ecosystem services (PES), aim to address Europe’s environmental and climate objectives by incentivising farmers to maintain or shift to farming practices that deliver additional ecosystem services (ES). We develop a theory of change (ToC) for AES, reviewing nine European case studies at different implementation stages, yet all featuring innovative contract solutions to increase ES provision (e.g., water quality, pollination) and enhance bird and grassland biodiversity. Mirroring ecosystem and geographic variety across Europe, we analyse observed strengths and weaknesses in designing, implementing, and evaluating AES, and flag emerging research gaps. Using the comparative case study (CCS) method to analyse case-specific secondary data, we highlight the importance of local contextualization and management customization across landscapes, differentiating contract types to target variable farmer groups. Some regionally implemented schemes outside the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) framework emphasize trust-building and prove well-tailored to local conditions. New result-based schemes may achieve both farmer uptake and incremental ES delivery, depending on ES types and costs. Spatial coordination incentives (agglomeration bonuses and thresholds) stimulate farmer uptake, but their cost effectiveness remains undocumented. Collective AES schemes can work well when collaborative traditions and accumulated social capital are ex-ante present. Mixing incentive policies with regulatory threat may boost AES uptake. Generally, high opportunity costs among intensively producing farms and complex administrative processes constitute key obstacles hampering AES success. Current research mostly measures AES success in terms of farmer participation (ToC <em>outputs</em>), while rigorous environmental impact evaluations (ToC <em>outcomes</em> and <em>impacts</em>) are essentially lacking. Addressing the identified obstacles and research gaps might enhance AES effectiveness, but also provides more educated perspectives on realistic potentials for AES to support European sustainability goals.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51312,"journal":{"name":"Ecosystem Services","volume":"73 ","pages":"Article 101728"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143941085","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}

{"title":"A dynamic hydro-economic model to assess the effectiveness and economic benefits and costs of wetland restoration and creation","authors":"Noureddine Bouzidi ,&nbsp;C. Dionisio Pérez-Blanco","doi":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2025.101737","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2025.101737","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper studies the environmental and socioeconomic performance and sustainability of wetland creation/restoration in agricultural watersheds under nonstationary climatic conditions. To this end, we develop a dynamic hydroeconomic modeling framework that integrates the Soil and Water Assessment Tool Plus (SWAT+), Positive Mathematical Programming (PMP), and economic valuation via the benefit transfer method to calculate the effectiveness (wetland area), benefits (economic value of wetland expansion) and costs (foregone agricultural profit) of wetland creation/restoration. Methods are illustrated with an application to the Flumen Watershed wetland restoration and construction project in NE Spain. Results highlight significant tradeoffs between environmental (wetland) and economic (agriculture) water uses, which aggravate over time and are particularly relevant under more severe climate change scenarios. Despite the growing costs and decreasing benefits of wetland creation/restoration due to reduced water availability and wetland surface under climate change, our results show that total wetland benefits over the series offset total wetland costs under all simulations and scenarios. Only during the last years of the series and for the most pessimistic climate change scenarios and combinations of models, costs start exceeding benefits. These results suggest a positive and robust performance of the wetland restoration and creation project in the Flumen Watershed.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51312,"journal":{"name":"Ecosystem Services","volume":"73 ","pages":"Article 101737"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143922277","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}

{"title":"Co-benefits of nature for birds, people, and climate in the United States","authors":"Rachel A. Neugarten ,&nbsp;Courtney L. Davis ,&nbsp;Guillermo Duran ,&nbsp;Amanda D. Rodewald","doi":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2025.101733","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2025.101733","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The concept of co-benefits is both conceptually and practically appealing, as it suggests that conservation efforts can be optimized to safeguard biodiversity and provide ecosystem services. However, limited availability of high-quality data on both ecosystem services and biodiversity has made it difficult to demonstrate empirically where, and to what extent, co-benefits exist. Leveraging newly available data on priority areas for eleven ecosystem services (nature’s contributions to people) and high-resolution abundance data for 479 bird species, we quantified the extent to which priority areas for ecosystem services could contribute to bird conservation in the U.S. We found that priority areas for ecosystem services can contribute meaningfully—more than expected by chance—to the populations of more than half of U.S. bird species, including &gt; 75 % of forest species. However, many other species, including species relying upon wetlands, water bodies and aridlands were poorly represented within important areas for ecosystem services. Spatial convergence of benefits points to areas where habitat conservation and restoration have the potential to help both biodiversity and people. Despite real potential for co-benefits, our results highlight the danger of generalizing about co-benefits in the absence of empirical data.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51312,"journal":{"name":"Ecosystem Services","volume":"73 ","pages":"Article 101733"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143906784","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}

{"title":"Review of methods for quantifying the benefits of coastal wetlands in absorbing and buffering extreme weather event impacts on coastal infrastructure","authors":"Phebe I. Rowland ,&nbsp;Micheli Duarte de Paula Costa ,&nbsp;Peter I. Macreadie ,&nbsp;Melissa Wartman","doi":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2025.101722","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2025.101722","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Coastal wetlands reduce extreme weather event impacts on coastlines globally. As climate change is expected to increase the frequency and intensity of these events, understanding how wetlands absorb and buffer extreme weather events is essential for promoting their conservation and restoration as a climate adaptation strategy. This systematic literature review examines methods used in previous research to quantify impacts of extreme weather events on the protective benefit of coastal wetlands (mangroves and tidal marshes) and the infrastructure they protect. Drawing from 129 studies, we categorise reported impacts on wetlands as: mechanical damage (33%), sediment dynamics (8%), and water properties (0.8%). Reductions in extreme weather event impacts by wetlands were categorised as infrastructure damage (23%), hydrodynamic forcing (39%), or social impacts (7%). On average, extreme weather events damaged 65% of mangroves and 8% tidal marshes. Coastal wetlands reduced wave height by 46% ± 27% and coastal flooding by 47% ± 15%, reducing infrastructure damage by up to 60%. Methodologies used to quantify impacts included: spatial models (25%), field-based approaches (28%), change analyses (19%), linear models (10%), non-linear regression (7.8%), economic valuation (4%), index development (4%), and Bayesian network models (2.3%). Choosing the best method depends on impact types, data availability, funding, and scale, with trade-offs between accuracy, cost-effectiveness, and scope. We discuss how these trade-offs may inform future investigations and the implications of robust methodologies for insuring properties and nature. Future research should assess variation in impacts along environmental gradients and explore how wetlands regulate socio-cultural consequences of extreme weather events.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51312,"journal":{"name":"Ecosystem Services","volume":"73 ","pages":"Article 101722"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143882859","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}

{"title":"Green gentrification drives socio-cultural shifts from provisioning to cultural valuation of ecosystem services","authors":"Celina Aznarez ,&nbsp;Juan Pablo Pacheco ,&nbsp;María Candelaria Domínguez ,&nbsp;Isabel Gadino ,&nbsp;Hugo Inda ,&nbsp;Fabiana Castellarini","doi":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2025.101731","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2025.101731","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Gentrification influences the social distribution of Ecosystem Services (ES) which can affect their use, perception and valuation, and lead to socio-ecological conflicts. This is particularly evident in coastal urban areas, where local underprivileged communities depending on ES for their livelihoods are often displaced due to real estate and tourism activities. Here, we analyse the use, perception and valuation of ES regarding the socio-economic status in a gentrified coastal area in Uruguay with an ongoing plan of urban transformation. We combined semi-structured interviews, participatory observation and mapping, for the identification, valuation, frequency of use, main pressures and trade-offs of ES. We evidenced a contrasting use and valuation of ES between neighbourhoods of different socio-economic status. Affluent neighbourhoods mainly recognized cultural-recreational ES, with sporadic use during summertime. Contrarily, residents of underprivileged areas identified a wider range of ES, used all year long, and had a higher valuation of provisioning ES due to their high dependence for basic needs. Accelerated gentrification, driven by the local urban management plan might exacerbate ES distributive inequities, and raise environmental justice concerns due to the restricted access to ES by the highly reliant underprivileged residents. This might induce a homogenisation in the use and valuation of ES towards cultural-recreational ones, more used and valued by affluent users. We emphasise the need for inclusive urban planning that acknowledges and integrates the diverse values and dependencies on ES across different socio-economic groups, to ensure sustainable and equitable development, preserve local livelihoods, and maintain ecological integrity.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51312,"journal":{"name":"Ecosystem Services","volume":"73 ","pages":"Article 101731"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143877538","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}