Ecosystem service availability in view of long‐term land‐use changes: a regional case study in the czech republic
| Autor: | Jana Frélichová, Josef Fanta |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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0106 biological sciences
Czech Ecology Land use business.industry Environmental resource management 010501 environmental sciences Management Monitoring Policy and Law 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences language.human_language Ecosystem services Geography Order (exchange) Agriculture language Ecosystem Arable land business Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics Environmental quality 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | Ecosystem Health and Sustainability. 1:1-15 |
| ISSN: | 2332-8878 2096-4129 |
| DOI: | 10.1890/ehs15-0024.1 |
| Popis: | This study aims to analyze how changes in land use influenced the delivery of ecosystem services in Cezava, a South Moravian agricultural region in the Czech Republic, in the period of 1845–2010. An observation of this period covering more than 160 years made it possible to reflect on social forces driving processes of transformation in the country. To capture the landscape multifunctionality and to indicate the environmental quality of the area under study, seven services provided in parallel by arable land, forests, and bodies of water were studied. The quantification of ecosystem services is based primarily on the transfer of values from the existing literature and on chronicle reviews and map analysis. Because looking back to the more distant past is a challenge and reliable information resources are lacking, a simple scoring method defining the functional features of the ecosystems was applied in order to evaluate the change of qualitative characteristics of the observed ecosystems. Besides that, the findings of these integrated assessments were supported by an analysis performed using landscape metrics. A comparison of service provision over the decades revealed that regulating and cultural services were significantly reduced, while provisioning services increased due to the proliferation of arable land, land consolidation, and agricultural intensification. However, a trend of improvement in the delivery of ecosystem services was introduced after 1990. Despite several uncertainties, this study demonstrates that it is possible to analyze long‐term land‐use trends to generate more meaningful, spatially explicit information, which can form the basis for landscape planning and ecosystem management. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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