Assessing land use and flood management impacts on ecosystem services in a river landscape (Upper Danube, Germany)

Autor: Mathias Scholz, Bernd Cyffka, Helmut Fischer, Andrea Rumm, Christiane Schulz-Zunkel, Dietmar Mehl, Christina von Haaren, Marion Gelhaus, Martin T. Pusch, Christian Damm, Hans Dieter Kasperidus, Simone A. Podschun, Julia Thiele, Stephanie Ritz, Barbara Stammel, Christian Albert, Alexandra Dehnhardt, Tim G. Hoffmann, Marin Rayanov, Lars Gerstner, Markus Venohr, Christine Fischer, Francis Foeckler, Kathrin Linnemann, Janette Iwanowski
Přispěvatelé: Fischer, Christine, 2 Department of Conservation Biology Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research—UFZ Leipzig Germany, Cyffka, Bernd, 1 Floodplain Institute Neuburg Catholic University of Eichstätt‐Ingolstadt Neuburg/Donau Germany, Albert, Christian, 4 Institute of Geography Ruhr University Bochum Bochum Germany, Damm, Christian, 5 Department of Wetland Ecology KIT‐Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Karlsruhe Germany, Dehnhardt, Alexandra, 6 Environmental and Land Economics Technical University of Berlin Berlin Germany, Fischer, Helmut, 8 Federal Institute of Hydrology (BfG) Koblenz Germany, Foeckler, Francis, 9 ÖKON—Ass. for Landscape Ecology, Limnology, and Environmental Planning Ltd. Kallmünz Germany, Gerstner, Lars, Hoffmann, Tim G., 10 Biota—Institute of Ecological Research and Planning Ltd. Bützow Germany, Iwanowski, Janette, Kasperidus, Hans D., Linnemann, Kathrin, Mehl, Dietmar, Podschun, Simone A., 11 Leibniz‐Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) Berlin Germany, Rayanov, Marin, Ritz, Stephanie, Rumm, Andrea, Scholz, Mathias, Schulz‐Zunkel, Christiane, Thiele, Julia, 12 Institute of Environmental Planning Leibniz University Hannover Hannover Germany, Venohr, Markus, von Haaren, Christina, Pusch, Martin T., Gelhaus, Marion
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
Předmět:
0106 biological sciences
index
River ecosystem
Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::570 | Biowissenschaften
Biologie
Floodplain
Geography & travel
assessment
0208 environmental biotechnology
02 engineering and technology
01 natural sciences
stakeholders
Ecosystem services
ddc:690
ddc:570
Regional planning
Environmental Chemistry
333.91
ddc:910
General Environmental Science
Water Science and Technology
geography
geography.geographical_feature_category
Flood myth
Land use
business.industry
010604 marine biology & hydrobiology
Environmental resource management
cultural
inter-sectoral management
020801 environmental engineering
regulating and provisioning ecosystem services
Water Framework Directive
floodplains
Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik::690 | Hausbau
Bauhandwerk
inter‐sectoral management
Habitats Directive
business
Zdroj: River Research and Applications 37 (2020), Nr. 2
River research and applications, 37 (2), 209-220
ISSN: 1535-1459
1535-1467
DOI: 10.23689/fidgeo-4169
Popis: Rivers and floodplains provide many regulating, provisioning and cultural ecosystem services (ES) such as flood risk regulation, crop production or recreation. Intensive use of resources such as hydropower production, construction of detention basins and intensive agriculture substantially change ecosystems and may affect their capacity to provide ES. Legal frameworks such as the European Water Framework Directive, Bird and Habitats Directive and Floods Directive already address various uses and interests. However, management is still sectoral and often potential synergies or trade‐offs between sectors are not considered. The ES concept could support a joint and holistic evaluation of impacts and proactively suggest advantageous options. The river ecosystem service index (RESI) method evaluates the capacity of floodplains to provide ES by using a standardized five‐point scale for 1 km‐floodplain segments based on available spatial data. This scaling allows consistent scoring of all ES and their integration into a single index. The aim of this article is to assess ES impacts of different flood prevention scenarios on a 75 km section of the Danube river corridor in Germany. The RESI method was applied to evaluate scenario effects on 13 ES with the standardized five‐point scale. Synergies and trade‐offs were identified as well as ES bundles and dependencies on land use and connectivity. The ratio of actual and former floodplain has the strongest influence on the total ES provision: the higher the percentage and area of an active floodplain, the higher the sum of ES. The RESI method proved useful to support decision‐making in regional planning.
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100002347
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