Using land use/land cover trajectories to uncover ecosystem service patterns across the Alps.

ABSTRACT: Managing multiple ecosystem services (ES) in agricultural landscapes is a challenging task, especially in regions with complex topographical and agro-ecological conditions. These challenges require ES assessment approaches that go beyond the case study level and provide multi-temporal information at a transnational level. We used a spatiotemporal approach to examine the impact of specific land use/land cover (LULC) trajectories on eight ES for the past 150 years. We show how a spatially explicit ES upscaling procedure, from case study to an Alpine-wide level, based on topographical, agro-ecological and socioeconomic parameters, can improve our understanding of ES dynamics and bundles. Our results indicated that the provision of multiple ES was not stable during the 150 years surveyed, main

SUBMITTER: Egarter Vigl L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6959402 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature