Identifying the optimal landscape configuration for landscape multifunctionality

Boesing, Andrea Larissa; Klaus, Valentin H.; Neyret, Margot; Le Provost, Gaëtane; Peter, Sophie; Fischer, Markus; Manning, Peter (2024). Identifying the optimal landscape configuration for landscape multifunctionality. Ecosystem Services, 67 Elsevier 10.1016/j.ecoser.2024.101630

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Increased pressure on land resources to provide multiple benefits calls for landscape strategies that optimize the supply of multiple ecosystem services (ES). Previous research into the drivers of landscape multifunctionality have focused on land use composition changes, but the spatial configuration of different land use types also drives ES supply. While the impact of landscape configuration on individual ES is well understood, the net outcome of these influences when considering many ES is not. Here we present the net-balance spatial interactions hypothesis, which posits that the strength and direction of local and surrounding landscape influences on the local supply of an individual ES will drive its optimal landscape configuration. Accordingly, the net balance of these influences across multiple prioritized ES will determine the optimal configuration for landscape multifunctionality. Further, ES that share the same optimal configuration strategy form a bundle that can be managed together. Using data from German grasslands we demonstrate that the net-balance spatial interactions hypothesis is applicable to land-use planning scenarios that aim to maximize multiple ES. It allows general rules to be applied when local, detailed ES data is not available, and can help identify the best option to minimize trade-offs in the face of multiple competing land-use objectives.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

08 Faculty of Science > Department of Biology > Institute of Plant Sciences (IPS)
08 Faculty of Science > Department of Biology > Institute of Plant Sciences (IPS) > Plant Ecology

UniBE Contributor:

Fischer, Markus

Subjects:

500 Science > 580 Plants (Botany)

ISSN:

2212-0416

Publisher:

Elsevier

Language:

English

Submitter:

Peter Alfred von Ballmoos-Haas

Date Deposited:

08 Jul 2024 08:53

Last Modified:

08 Jul 2024 08:53

Publisher DOI:

10.1016/j.ecoser.2024.101630

Uncontrolled Keywords:

Landscape structure, Ecosystem services, Spatial planning, Multifunctional landscapes, Stakeholders, Ecosystem multifunctionality, Agroecosystems

BORIS DOI:

10.48350/198499

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/198499

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