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{"title":"Sustainability threshold for multiple ecosystem services in the Venice lagoon, Italy","authors":"Silvia Rova,&nbsp;Alice Stocco,&nbsp;Fabio Pranovi","doi":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2023.101568","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2023.101568","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>One of the biggest challenges for ecosystem services (ES) science is to make the concept operational for decision-making purposes. The capacity to understand the long-term sustainability of multiple ES is still limited, while being highly needed to improve the management of natural resources. This work aims to use ES, and particularly the assessment of their capacity and flow, to explore the sustainability of the ES provision in the coastal social-ecological system of the Venice lagoon, Italy, by adopting a spatially explicit approach. By applying multivariate analysis on the ES maps, a zonation is derived which reflects the different bundles of ES in the lagoon. A new approach to analyze the ES bundles is presented, which determines their degree of sustainability. Building on the rationale that not all combinations of ES are desirable for the long-term maintenance of ES capacity, a ‘sustainability threshold’ for multiple ES is proposed. This threshold corresponds to a balance between ES capacity and flow, and to a balance between the flow of regulating ES and the flow of ES mediated by human activities. The results show that about 53% of the lagoon’s surface is exploited to a level that falls beyond the ‘sustainability threshold’ and thus should be considered in an unsustainable condition. This reveals the need to intervene to change the patterns of ES uses in some areas of the lagoon, to enjoy the benefits offered by the ecosystem without impairing its capacity to provide them. Some potential directions for change are discussed, moving towards a more sustainable management of the lagoon social-ecological system.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51312,"journal":{"name":"Ecosystem Services","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2023-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49739333","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":"Profit-efficiency analysis of forest ecosystem services in the southeastern US","authors":"Andres Susaeta ,&nbsp;Ester Gutiérrez ,&nbsp;Sebastián Lozano","doi":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2023.101567","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2023.101567","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Technical, allocative, and profit efficiency of longleaf pine (<em>Pinus palustris.</em> Mill) forests in the southeastern United States, producing ecosystem services such as timber, tree biodiversity, water, and carbon sequestration, were estimated. This study employed a non-parametric two-stage approach involving data envelopment analysis (DEA) and robust linear regression. Utilizing data from the Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program spanning 1977–2015 and covering 2,282 forest plots, most longleaf pine forest plots were technically and profit inefficient in ecosystem service production. The inefficiency in profit appeared more attributable to allocative rather than technical inefficiency. Furthermore, the impact of various exogenous variables on inefficiency scores was assessed through robust linear regression. The findings suggested that forest disturbances under private ownership could reduce technical inefficiency. Surprisingly, contrary to stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) results, the robust regression model, considering geographical factors, disturbance, ownership, management, and time in the presence of outliers/influential observations, indicated that disturbances often increased technical inefficiency. Therefore, forest management strategies aiming to mimic or replicate the effects of forest disturbances might compromise the efficiency of ecosystem service provision.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51312,"journal":{"name":"Ecosystem Services","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2023-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49739400","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":"Advancing spatial decision-making in a transboundary catchment through multidimensional ecosystem services assessment","authors":"Alicia Correa ,&nbsp;Jorge Forero ,&nbsp;Jorge Marco Renau ,&nbsp;Ivan Lizarazo ,&nbsp;Mark Mulligan ,&nbsp;Daniele Codato","doi":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2023.101554","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2023.101554","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Global change has led to significant impacts on ecosystem services, posing a threat to the livelihoods of local communities worldwide. It is essential to assess these services to integrate them into regional planning, and policy design. We conduct ecosystem services assessments to inform spatial decision-making in a transboundary catchment. We focus on Mira-Mataje (11617 km²) transboundary catchment as an example of a natural unit, rich in natural resources that hosts an important cultural heritage of Indigenous and Afro-descendant ethnic groups.</p><p>We utilize three dimensions to evaluate ecosystem services: Firstly, the monetary dimension; secondly, the biophysical relevance, including current pressures and future threats; and thirdly, the social dimension. We combine globally available economic and remotely sensed datasets with the spatial ecosystem services modeling and mapping tool, Co$tingNature, and local knowledge and worldviews from community leaders.</p><p>Our results show that the total valuation of ecosystem services in the catchment is USD 2013344397 per year, with pixel values ranging from 3.7 to 4905783. High values concentrated near cities and main roads. We found that monetary values and current pressures on ecosystems services are correlated to total potential services for the entire catchment (-0.58 and −0.4 respectively). In addition, with our multidimensional assessment, we distinguish areas that require different types of management due to their specificities. For instance, the Awá territories hosts the largest total potential services, and will face greater threats in the future. This demonstrates the community's capacity to maintain the natural resources, but a more efficient control of illegal and unsustainable external activities is necessary. Afro-descendant territories on the highlands show overexploitation of its natural resources. Territories and land ownership must be recognized and to promote the transition to sustainable production. We provide advances in the research on the services valuation for potential integration into differentiated regional planning and sustainable policies.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51312,"journal":{"name":"Ecosystem Services","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2023-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49739374","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":"Stakeholder perceptions of agricultural landscape services, biodiversity, and drivers of change in four European case studies","authors":"Monika Suškevičs ,&nbsp;Katrin Karner ,&nbsp;Claudia Bethwell ,&nbsp;Florian Danzinger ,&nbsp;Sonja Kay ,&nbsp;Takamasa Nishizawa ,&nbsp;Johannes Schuler ,&nbsp;Kalev Sepp ,&nbsp;Rando Värnik ,&nbsp;Michael Glemnitz ,&nbsp;Maaria Semm ,&nbsp;Christina Umstätter ,&nbsp;Tobias Conradt ,&nbsp;Felix Herzog ,&nbsp;Noëlle Klein ,&nbsp;Thomas Wrbka ,&nbsp;Peter Zander ,&nbsp;Martin Schönhart","doi":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2023.101563","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2023.101563","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Many studies have explored farmers’ perspectives on biodiversity and ecosystem services, but fewer qualitative and cross-country comparisons exist. We develop a socio-ecological system to analyse agricultural landscape services, biodiversity, and drivers that have affected these services in recent decades. Via a systematic stakeholder mapping and 49 semi-structured interviews, we identify stakeholder perceptions of this system. We compare the perceptions across four regional case studies (Austria, Estonia, Germany, Switzerland), and two stakeholder groups (land managers and administrators). The case studies share certain commonalities in perceptions (e.g., provisioning and regulating services discussed in all of them) but also show differences (e.g., changes in biodiversity and landscape services more often perceived in the Swiss and German cases, but less in the Austrian and Estonian case studies). Across all case studies, typical land use change can be attributed to multiple drivers of various strengths, with climate change being the most often perceived driver directly affecting landscape services, followed by policies and market-based drivers, which affect services and biodiversity indirectly via land use. Compared to the administrators (e.g., decision-makers, scientists), the managers (e.g., farmers, NGOs) discuss more often the drivers, like various biodiversity and landscape service categories, as well as climate change, markets, and technologies. However, the administrators focus more on cultural services, policies as drivers, and consider more often links between drivers and landscape services and/or biodiversity. Hence, both of the groups’ (administrators and managers) perceptions partly complement each other. Since policy making should be based on the best knowledge of different stakeholder groups, active knowledge exchange between managers and administrators should be supported and outcome considered in decision making. The resulting regional differences in stakeholder perceptions of the drivers and their respective impact on agricultural landscapes suggest that future agricultural policies need regional targeting and the consideration of landscape-specific characteristics.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51312,"journal":{"name":"Ecosystem Services","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2023-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49739135","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 remote sensing choices influence ecosystem services monitoring and evaluation results of ecological restoration interventions","authors":"Trinidad del Río-Mena,&nbsp;Louise Willemen,&nbsp;Anton Vrieling,&nbsp;Andy Nelson","doi":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2023.101565","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2023.101565","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Large-scale ecological restorations are recognized worldwide as an effective strategy to combat environmental degradation and promote sustainability. Remote sensing (RS) imagery, such as obtained from Landsat and Sentinel-2 satellites, can provide spatial, spectral, and temporal information on ecosystem service supply to support monitoring and evaluation of restoration interventions. However, because of the abundance of satellite data and methodological analysis options, choices in data selection and processing options need to be made. This study explored the effect of RS choices on the evaluation of changes in ecosystem services as a result of ecological restoration interventions. Using the ecosystem service of forage provision for wildlife as an example, we used a before-after-control-impact (BACI) analysis to compare how the following choices affected restoration evaluation outcomes: a) different number of control pixels; b) different spatial distribution of control pixels; c) intra-annual image selection; and d) different reference periods. In addition, e) we evaluated the effect of using two different satellite sensor types, using the ecosystem service ‘erosion prevention’ as an example. We explored the effect of these five choices for restoration sites in the Baviaanskloof, South Africa. Results showed that the choice of intra-annual image selection, and the reference period describing the ‘before state’ had a strong effect on the outcomes, often leading to opposite BACI evaluation results. BACI results were less sensitive to choices related to the number of control points in the evaluation. The impact of methodological choices on the BACI outcomes was greater for the less degraded areas of our study site. Satellite sensor choice resulted in similar temporal trajectories of estimated supply. We demonstrated that RS choices have a strong effect on the evaluation results of restoration interventions. Therefore, we recommend that documenting the key RS choices results is essential when communicating restoration evaluation results in order to properly understand, manage and adapt restoration initiatives.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51312,"journal":{"name":"Ecosystem Services","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2023-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49739438","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":"Network analysis of water-related ecosystem services in search of solutions for sustainable catchment management: A case study in Sutlej-Beas River systems, India","authors":"Shuying Yu ,&nbsp;Jian Peng ,&nbsp;Pei Xia ,&nbsp;Qi Wang ,&nbsp;Robert C Grabowski ,&nbsp;Adani Azhoni ,&nbsp;Brij Bala ,&nbsp;Vijay Shankar ,&nbsp;Jeroen Meersmans","doi":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2023.101557","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2023.101557","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Hydrological processes and ecosystem interactions are instrumental in sustaining local populations by providing various water-related ecosystem services (ES). Numerous studies gave priority to the theories and methods of building networks that emphasized different stakeholders. However, little study has examined the complex relationships among water-related ES themselves and how relevant human activities affect ES networks. To narrow this gap, in this study we quantified four critical water-related ES (flood mitigation, hydropower production, soil retention, and water conservation), set up six ES network types based on the synergy relationship, and further explored the effect of human activities on these networks. The results showed that among six ES network categories, networks with four fully linked ES occupied a large percentage of 23.20% while the network with one central ES linking two others accounted for the lowest percentage (9.28%). Compared with other ES, soil retention tended to be less centralized within the networks. In addition, land use intensity was found to greatly influence the ES networks compared with other indicators, especially for less complex networks. Our results highlighted the importance of network analysis in searching solutions for sustainable catchment management.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51312,"journal":{"name":"Ecosystem Services","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45519368","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":"Seagrass ecosystem services show complex spatial patterns and associations","authors":"J. McHenry, A. Rassweiler, S. Lester","doi":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2023.101543","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2023.101543","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51312,"journal":{"name":"Ecosystem Services","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"54150510","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":"Measuring uncertainty in ecosystem service correlations as a function of sample size","authors":"David W. Shanafelt ,&nbsp;Josep M. Serra-Diaz ,&nbsp;Géraldine Bocquého","doi":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2023.101546","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2023.101546","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The ecosystem service literature has drastically expanded since the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, yet the nature of how ecosystem services interact across space is still poorly understood. A key unresolved question is how efforts in sampling (a proxy for data availability) affect the calculation of the interactions or associations among ecosystem services. We contribute to answering this question by estimating a suite of ecosystem services and asking how the values of their interactions – in the form of spatial correlations – change as a function of the sampling rate of the landscape. Specifically, we estimate a set of seven ecosystem services for France (agricultural production potential, biodiversity, carbon storage, livestock grazing potential, net ecosystem productivity, pollination, and soil loss), applying four different measures for biodiversity, seven different methods for carbon storage, and three for pollination. We find that spatial correlations are fairly robust to the sampling rate, supporting the notion that moderate sampling rates across a heterogenous landscape are sufficient to obtain reliable estimates of the average correlation occurring across the landscape. In other words, despite heterogeneity in the spatial distribution of ecosystem services, at sufficient sample sizes we only need to randomly sample ten percent of the landscape to acquire an accurate measure of the correlations between all ecosystem services averaged across the entire landscape. Our results have implications for management, with applications for sampling extent and intensity and the identification of ecosystem service bundles.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51312,"journal":{"name":"Ecosystem Services","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44714468","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":"Participatory research on ecosystem services in the face of disputed values and other uncertainties: A review","authors":"Cécile Barnaud ,&nbsp;Florence De Longueville ,&nbsp;Gabriel Gonella ,&nbsp;Martine Antona ,&nbsp;Nicolas Dendoncker ,&nbsp;Kerry A Waylen","doi":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2023.101551","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2023.101551","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Participatory approaches are widely used in ecosystem services (ES) research. They are particularly advocated for situations characterized by complexity, uncertainties and multiple values. However, behind the intention to do participatory research on ES, there is likely a wide range of practices. In this paper, we undertook a systematic literature review to examine how participatory ES research is implemented in practice. Drawing on 93 reviewed articles, we explore how – and how far – various practices elicit and consider different types of uncertainties related to ES, namely ethical uncertainties (plurality of worldviews, values and interests), epistemic uncertainties (multiple representations) and radical uncertainties (unpredictability). Our review shows a high level of diversity of methods within participatory ES research. Three main types of studies were identified: (1) those centered on socio-cultural valuation of ES, that acknowledge plurality of specific values; (2) those describing more scientific driven processes focusing on assessments of representations of ES dynamics, that partially acknowledge epistemic uncertainties; and (3) those (less numerous) describing more deliberative and collective processes, that navigate all uncertainty types, including plurality of interests, plurality of knowledge systems and radical uncertainties. In total, three main conclusions are drawn from this work. First, plurality of worldviews is seemingly not a strong concern for participatory ES research. This lends credence to concerns that ES framings may encourage a dualistic, anthropocentric and utilitarian framing of nature. Second, although a plurality of specific ES values were generally considered, conflicts of interests and trade-offs between these were much less often considered, which potentially reflects a lack of connection of participatory ES research to real life decision making and a limited ability to navigate power asymmetries and strategic political agendas. Third, while there was often appraisal of non-scientific stakeholders’ representations of ES dynamics, radical uncertainties and differences between scientific and non-scientific representations were rarely addressed. This suggests that participatory ES research remains largely anchored in a Western science’s positivist stance.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51312,"journal":{"name":"Ecosystem Services","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45427283","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":"Comparison of Ecosystem Services and Replacement Value calculations performed for urban trees","authors":"Marzena Suchocka ,&nbsp;Jakub Heciak ,&nbsp;Magdalena Błaszczyk ,&nbsp;Joanna Adamczyk ,&nbsp;Marek Gaworski ,&nbsp;Agnieszka Gawłowska ,&nbsp;Jacek Mojski ,&nbsp;Hazem M. Kalaji ,&nbsp;Karolina Kais ,&nbsp;Joanna Kosno-Jończy ,&nbsp;Magdalena Wojnowska Heciak","doi":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2023.101553","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2023.101553","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Trees provide ecosystem services such as improvements to air and water quality, landscaping, and thermal comfort, energy conservation or carbon sequestration. To find a financial value to urban trees, an assessment of 1,099 trees in Warsaw, Poland, was performed based on the Ecosystem Services (ES) in I-Tree Eco and the Replacement Value (RV) Calculations. An indicator, the Degree of Duplication (DDC), was proposed to compare two different tree evaluation methods. We measured trees growing nearby streets, at multi-family residential areas and park trees. In the park zone, according to the trunk formula method, we identified the Ecosystem Services provided by trees as the most effective: $25/one tree and the highest tree Replacement Value ($6,089/one tree). The results confirm that good tree vitality is essential for achieving maximum levels of Ecosystem Services. We propose to combine both approaches (RV and ES) to improve green infrastructure management effectively.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51312,"journal":{"name":"Ecosystem Services","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41472015","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}