Data from the study: Strong temporal dynamics of ecosystem services through succession

<p>Human activities can strongly influence the capacity of ecosystems to provide flood regulating ecosystem services (ES). Therefore, the effects of land use alteration, population migration and urbanization are key aspects to be considered when dealing with flood management. This study aims at analyzing the spatio&#8209;temporal dynamics of flood regulating ES to support watershed management planning. The spatial explicit analysis of flood regulating ES is carried out with SWAT - Soil and Water Assessment Tool, using daily meteorological data between 2000 and 2014. Two indicators are elaborated in order to evaluate the retention capacity of each land use setting and to map the ES supply. Demand quantification is obtained from the information derived by the existing flood management plans (i.e. PAI-Piano per l&#8217;Assetto Idrogeologico and PGRA-Piano di Gestione del Rischio Alluvioni) which contain the identification and the perimeter of hydraulic hazard classes. Supply and demand data are then merged in order to obtain budget maps of flood regulating ES and their evolution from 1960 up to 2012 (1960, 1990, 2000 and 2012). The results show that both the demand and the supply of ecosystem services change during the time. With the increasing urbanization, the demand values have grown in the Arno floodplains, where residential, industrial and commercial zones are located. At the same time, land use changes (e.g. intensive agriculture) have caused negative effects on water regulation supply. This work shows the advantages of assessing flood regulating ES to improve flood regulation in the Arno river basin and provide a sound base of knowledge to identify floods prevention and mitigation measures.</p>

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Data, models and ecosystem services: the Marine Ecosystems Research Programme

10.7287/peerj.preprints.26749 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Paul J. Somerfield

Keyword(s):

Ecosystem Services ◽

Food Web ◽

Temporal Dynamics ◽

Marine Ecosystem ◽

Research Programme ◽

Marine Ecosystems ◽

Marine Food Webs ◽

Common Framework ◽

Spatio Temporal ◽

Ecosystem Changes

The effects of marine ecosystem changes on ecosystem services are difficult to predict because of our limited understanding of marine food-webs, how they respond to changes in pressures, and how those changes then influence services. Biogeochemical ecosystem models do a good job of representing change in groups of organisms primarily influenced by spatio-temporal dynamics in physics and chemistry, such as phytoplankton and small zooplankton. For groups of organisms higher in the food-web, such as fish, mammals and birds, a variety of different modelling approaches are used. No particular approach attempts to model the entire system, each viewing the food-web from a different perspective. Links to services are rarely explicit. To allow us to respond appropriately to change we need to improve our understanding of, and ability to model, the marine ecosystem as a whole, and links between changes in the marine ecosystem and its ability to deliver services. The Marine Ecosystems Research Programme (www.marine-ecosystems.org.uk) provides mechanisms to bring together existing data, targeted new data, different models, and to link them to ecosystem services within a common framework. A key aim is to project effects of possible policy decisions on ecosystem services which are mediated by ecosystem processes.

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Temporal Dynamics of Ecosystem Services

Ecological Economics ◽

10.1016/j.ecolecon.2018.05.009 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 151 ◽

pp. 122-130 ◽

Cited By ~ 19

Author(s):

Anna-Lena Rau ◽

Henrik von Wehrden ◽

David J. Abson

Keyword(s):

Ecosystem Services ◽

Temporal Dynamics

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A Petri net modeling approach to explore the temporal dynamics of the provision of multiple ecosystem services

The Science of The Total Environment ◽

10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.11.184 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 655 ◽

pp. 1047-1061 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Silvia Rova ◽

Patrick Meire ◽

Felix Müller ◽

Marta Simeoni ◽

Fabio Pranovi

Keyword(s):

Ecosystem Services ◽

Petri Net ◽

Temporal Dynamics ◽

Modeling Approach

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Long-term assessment of ecosystem services at ecological restoration sites using Landsat time series

PLoS ONE ◽

10.1371/journal.pone.0243020 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 16 (6) ◽

pp. e0243020

Author(s):

Trinidad del Río-Mena ◽

Louise Willemen ◽

Anton Vrieling ◽

Andy Snoeys ◽

Andy Nelson

Keyword(s):

Ecosystem Services ◽

Ecological Restoration ◽

Temporal Dynamics ◽

Opportunity To Learn ◽

Parent Material ◽

Rural Landscape ◽

Landsat Images ◽

Landsat Satellite ◽

The Impact

Reversing ecological degradation through restoration activities is a key societal challenge of the upcoming decade. However, lack of evidence on the effectiveness of restoration interventions leads to inconsistent, delayed, or poorly informed statements of success, hindering the wise allocation of resources, representing a missed opportunity to learn from previous experiences. This study contributes to a better understanding of spatial and temporal dynamics of ecosystem services at ecological restoration sites. We developed a method using Landsat satellite images combined with a Before-After-Control-Impact (BACI) design, and applied this to an arid rural landscape, the Baviaanskloof in South Africa. Since 1990, various restoration projects have been implemented to halt and reverse degradation. We applied the BACI approach at pixel-level comparing the conditions of each intervened pixel (impact) with 20 similar control pixels. By evaluating the conditions before and after the restoration intervention, we assessed the effectiveness of long-term restoration interventions distinguishing their impact from environmental temporal changes. The BACI approach was implemented with Landsat images that cover a 30-year period at a spatial resolution of 30 meter. We evaluated the impact of three interventions (revegetation, livestock exclusion, and the combination of both) on three ecosystem services; forage provision, erosion prevention, and presence of iconic vegetation. We also evaluated whether terrain characteristics could partially explain the variation in impact of interventions. The resulting maps showed spatial patterns of positive and negative effects of interventions on ecosystem services. Intervention effectiveness differed across vegetation conditions, terrain aspect, and soil parent material. Our method allows for spatially explicit quantification of the long-term restoration impact on ecosystem service supply, and for the detailed visualization of impact across an area. This pixel-level analysis is specifically suited for heterogeneous landscapes, where restoration impact not only varies between but also within restoration sites.

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Impacts of large-scale landscape restoration on spatio-temporal dynamics of ecosystem services in the Chinese Loess Plateau

Landscape Ecology ◽

10.1007/s10980-021-01346-z ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Hao Chen ◽

Luuk Fleskens ◽

Johanna Schild ◽

Simon Moolenaar ◽

Fei Wang ◽

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Keyword(s):

Ecosystem Services ◽

Large Scale ◽

Temporal Dynamics ◽

Chinese Loess Plateau ◽

Land Restoration ◽

Restoration Project ◽

Cultural Services ◽

Chinese Loess ◽

Regulating Services ◽

Trade Offs

Abstract Context From 1999 onwards, China has initiated a large-scale landscape restoration project in the Chinese Loess Plateau, which has had profound but variable impacts on the local ecosystem services supply. The dynamics of ecosystem services throughout the restoration process remain poorly understood. Objectives To analyze the spatial and temporal dynamics in ecosystem services before and after the implementation of the land restoration project, and to understand trade-offs and synergies between multiple ecosystem services. Methods We used the InVEST model and statistical yearbook data to quantify the ecosystem services over the period 1990–2018 for the Yan’an area and applied the concept of ecosystem service bundles to understand the dynamics of 11 ecosystem services over its 13 constituent counties. Results A significant increase of fruit production, sediment retention, habitat quality, aesthetic landscape value, and learning and inspiration value was found over time in the Yan’an area, while a decrease of timber production and water yield was also observed. The majority of the county-level ecosystem service bundles were transformed from having a focus on timber production to aesthetic landscape value. The dynamics of ecosystem services change induced by land restoration was discovered to start with increasing regulating services at the expense of provisioning services, while cultural services exceeded regulating services and occupied the main proportion subsequently. Conclusion Both trade-offs and synergies were found between provisioning, regulating and cultural services. Implementation of the large-scale restoration project is recognized as a key driving force inducing change of ecosystem services, starting with an improvement of regulating services followed by a gradually evolving prominence of cultural services.

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Temporal resource continuity increases predator abundance in a metapopulation model: insights for conservation and biocontrol

10.1101/2020.03.25.006882 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Brian J. Spiesman ◽

Benjamin Iuliano ◽

Claudio Gratton

Keyword(s):

Ecosystem Services ◽

Temporal Dynamics ◽

Landscape Heterogeneity ◽

Habitat Type ◽

Landscape Scale ◽

Metapopulation Model ◽

Biological Pest Control ◽

Temporal Variance ◽

Basal Resources ◽

Predator Abundance

AbstractThe amount of habitat in a landscape is an important metric for evaluating the effects of land cover and land use on biodiversity and ecosystem services, yet it fails to capture complex temporal dimensions of resource availability that could be consequential for species population dynamics. If ephemeral resources across multiple habitat patches are synchronously available, resource gaps could be detrimental to population growth. In contrast, asynchronously available resources create a mosaic of temporally complementary resources that mobile organisms can track across the landscape. Knowledge is especially lacking on the relevance of temporal complementation for tri-trophic interactions and biological pest control. Here we use a spatially-explicit predator-prey metapopulation model to test the effect of different spatiotemporal resource patterns on insect predators and their prey. We examined prey and predator responses in model landscapes that varied in both the amount and temporal variability of basal vegetation resources. Further, we examined cases where prey comprised either a single generalist species or two specialist species that use different resources available either early or late in the growing season. We found that predators and generalist prey benefitted from lower temporal variance of basal resources, which increased both of their landscape-scale abundances. However, increasing the amount of basal resources also increased the variability of generalist prey populations, resulting in a negative correlation between basal resource amount and predator abundance. Specialist prey, on the other hand, did not benefit from less temporally variable in basal resources, since they were restricted by habitat type while also suffering greater predation. Predators feeding on specialists achieved greater prey suppression in landscapes with less temporally variable resources. Our simulations demonstrate the joint importance of landscape-scale temporal dynamics of resources and resource amount in understanding how landscape heterogeneity influences biodiversity and ecosystem services such as the biological control of agricultural pests.

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