Prevention of erosion in mountain basins: A spatial-based tool to support payments for forest ecosystem services

This paper presents a spatial-based decision support system (DSS) to assist public and private forest managers in the analysis of potential feasibility in payments for forest ecosystem services (PES) for the prevention of soil erosion. The model quantifies the maximum willingness to pay (WTP) of managers of a reservoir to prevent soil loss. The minimum willingness to accept (WTA) of forest owners for the activation of a private market is also computed. The comparison of WTP and WTA identifies the forest area where PES are ideally feasible with additional potential for compensation to enable the schemes. The DSS highlights forest idiosyncrasies as well as local socio-economic and geomorphological characteristics influencing PES suitability at a geographic level. The potential applications and future improvements of the model are also discussed.

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Mapping the Supply of Local Forest Ecosystem Services: Based on Delphi and Land Use Scoring Method

Journal of the Association of Korean Geographers ◽

10.25202/jakg.9.2.5 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

pp. 295-312

Author(s):

Jang-Hwan Jo ◽

Moon-Ki Choi ◽

Oh Seok Kim ◽

Kyeong-hak Lee ◽

Chang-Bae Lee

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Ecosystem Services ◽

Forest Ecosystem ◽

Scoring Method ◽

Forest Ecosystem Services

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Assessing the impacts of changing climate on forest ecosystem services and livelihood of Balakot mountainous communities

Pakistan Journal of Botany ◽

10.30848/pjb2019-4(1) ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 51 (4) ◽

Author(s):

Laila Shahzad ◽

Arifa Tahir ◽

Faiza Sharif ◽

Ikram Ul Haq ◽

Hamid Mukhtar

Keyword(s):

Ecosystem Services ◽

Forest Ecosystem ◽

Changing Climate ◽

Forest Ecosystem Services ◽

Mountainous Communities

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Wald und Klimawandel in der inneralpinen Trockenregion Visp

Schweizerische Zeitschrift fur Forstwesen ◽

10.3188/szf.2012.0481 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 163 (12) ◽

pp. 481-492

Author(s):

Andreas Rigling ◽

Ché Elkin ◽

Matthias Dobbertin ◽

Britta Eilmann ◽

Arnaud Giuggiola ◽

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Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Ecosystem Services ◽

Forest Management ◽

Forest Ecosystem ◽

Bark Beetles ◽

Forest Ecosystems ◽

Field Experiments ◽

Forest Monitoring ◽

Management Interventions ◽

Forest Ecosystem Services

Forest and climate change in the inner-Alpine dry region of Visp Over the past decades, observed increases in temperature have been particularly pronounced in mountain regions. If this trend should continue in the 21st Century, frequency and intensity of droughts will increase, and will pose major challenges for forest management. Under current conditions drought-related tree mortality is already an important factor of forest ecosystems in dry inner-Alpine valleys. Here we assess the sensitivity of forest ecosystems to climate change and evaluate alternative forest management strategies in the Visp region. We integrate data from forest monitoring plots, field experiments and dynamic forests models to evaluate how the forest ecosystem services timber production, protection against natural hazards, carbon storage and biodiver-sity will be impacted. Our results suggest that at dry low elevation sites the drought tolerance of native tree species will be exceeded so that in the longer term a transition to more drought-adapted species should be considered. At medium elevations, drought and insect disturbances as by bark beetles are projected to be important for forest development, while at high elevations forests are projected to expand and grow better. All of the ecosystem services that we considered are projected to be impacted by changing forest conditions, with the specific impacts often being elevation-dependent. In the medium term, forest management that aims to increase the resilience of forests to drought can help maintain forest ecosystem services temporarily. However, our results suggest that relatively rigid management interventions are required to achieve significant effects. By using a combination of environmental monitoring, field experiments and modeling, we are able to gain insight into how forest ecosystem, and the services they provide, will respond to future changes.

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