Skip to main content

Advertisement

SpringerLink
Log in

Assessing spatial temporal patterns of ecosystem services in Switzerland

  • Research Article
  • Published:
Landscape Ecology Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

Context

Despite the importance of understanding the historical dynamics of ecosystem services (ES), little research has focused on a historical, spatially explicit, assessment of ES supply.

Objectives

This research is aimed at understanding the spatial patterns and potential drivers of temporal variations of ES supply. It has assessed associations of ES temporal variations, delineated ES bundles from changes in ES supply over time, and identified potential drivers of ES bundles. Finally, we discuss the potential implications for spatial planning.

Methods

We reconstructed the spatio-temporal patterns of 11 ES supply in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland, between 1979 and 2014. We used Spearman’s rank coefficient, k-means clustering and redundancy analysis to understand the spatial patterns and potential drivers of temporal variations of ES supply.

Results

Municipalities were grouped into four clusters based on ES supply changes over four decades. Food production showed the most negative associations with other ES. Regulating ES were not always synergetic and were less related to increases in population density than cultural ES, which were found in low population density municipalities. In general, synergetic ES may not respond to the same potential drivers. Municipalities were able to supply ES at different levels but none showed an increase in all ES.

Conclusions

ES can be synergetic in one bundle, but antagonistic in another. Different processes can cause a change in the same ES depending on their supply location. It seems unrealistic to require each municipality to have a multifunctional territory in the current political context.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Fig. 1
Fig. 2
Fig. 3
Fig. 4

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  • Baró F, Gómez-Baggethun E, Haase D (2017) Ecosystem service bundles along the urban-rural gradient: insights for landscape planning and management. Ecosyst Serv 24:147–159

    Google Scholar 

  • Baró F, Palomo I, Zulian G, Vizcain P, Haase D, Gómez-Baggethun E (2016) Mapping ecosystem service capacity flow and demand for landscape and urban planning: a case study in the Barcelona metropolitan region. Land Use Policy 57:405–417

    Google Scholar 

  • Bennett EM, Peterson GD, Gordon LJ (2009) Understanding relationships among multiple ecosystem services. Ecol Lett 12:1394–1404

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Bennett EM, Cramer W, Begossi A, Cundill G, Díaz S, Egoh BN, Lebel L (2015) Linking biodiversity ecosystem services and human well-being: three challenges for designing research for sustainability. Curr Opin Environ Sustain 14:76–85

    Google Scholar 

  • Brand F, Seidl R, Le Q, Brändle J, Scholz R (2013) Constructing consistent multiscale scenarios by transdisciplinary processes: the case of mountain regions facing global change. Ecol Soc 18(2):43

    Google Scholar 

  • Braun D, Damm A, Hein L, Petchey OL, Schaepman ME (2018) Spatio-temporal trends and trade-offs in ecosystem services: an Earth observation based assessment for Switzerland between 2004 and 2014. Ecol Indic 89:828–839

    Google Scholar 

  • Burkhard B, Kroll F, Nedkov S, Müller F (2012) Mapping ecosystem service supply demand and budgets. Ecol Indic 21:17–29

    Google Scholar 

  • Castro AJ, Martín-López B, López E, Plieninger T, Alcaraz-Segura D, Vaughn CC, Cabello J (2015) Do protected areas networks ensure the supply of ecosystem services? Spatial patterns of two nature reserve systems in semi-arid Spain. Appl Geogr 60:1–9

    Google Scholar 

  • Cohen J (1992) A power primer. Psychol Bull 112(1):155

    CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Costanza R, de Groot R, Braat L, Kubiszewski I, Fioramonti L, Sutton P, Farber S, Grasso M (2017) Twenty years of ecosystem services: how far have we come and how far do we still need to go? Ecosyst Serv 1(28):1–6

    Google Scholar 

  • Crouzat E, Mouchet M, Turkelboom F, Byczek C, Meersmans J, Berger F, Lavorel S (2015) Assessing bundles of ecosystem services from regional to landscape scale: insights from the French Alps. J Appl Ecol 52(5):1145–1155

    Google Scholar 

  • Dade MC, Mitchell MG, McAlpine CA, Rhodes JR (2018) Assessing ecosystem service trade-offs and synergies: the need for a more mechanistic approach. Ambio. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-018-1127-7

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Dallimer M, Davies ZG, Diaz-Porras DF, Irvine KN, Maltby L, Warren PH, Gaston KJ (2015) Historical influences on the current provision of multiple ecosystem services. Glob Environ Change 31:307–317

    Google Scholar 

  • DeFries RS, Foley JA, Asner GP (2004) Land-use choices: balancing human needs and ecosystem function. Front Ecol Environ 2(5):249–257

    Google Scholar 

  • Directorate General for the Environment (DGE) (2019) Sites protégés. https://www.vd.ch/themes/environnement/biodiversite-et-paysage/sites-proteges/#c2043936. Accessed 05 Feb 2019

  • Dittrich A, von Wehrden H, Abson DJ, Bartkowski B, Cord AF, Fust P, Nieto-Romero M (2017) Mapping and analysing historical indicators of ecosystem services in Germany. Ecol Indic 75:101–110

    Google Scholar 

  • Federal Office for Environment (FOEN) (2019a) Paysages d’importance nationale. https://www.bafu.admin.ch/bafu/fr/home/themes/paysage/info-specialistes/conserver-et-developper-la-qualite-du-paysage/paysages-d_importance-nationale.html. Accessed 05 Feb 2019

  • Federal Office for Environment (FOEN) (2019b) Biotopes d’importance nationale. https://www.bafu.admin.ch/bafu/fr/home/themes/biodiversite/info-specialistes/mesures-de-conservation-de-la-biodiversite/infrastructure-ecologique/biotopes-d_importance-nationale.html. Accessed 05 Feb 2019

  • Fei L, Shuwen Z, Jiuchun Y, Kun B, Qing W, Junmei T, Liping C (2016) The effects of population density changes on ecosystem services value: a case study in Western Jilin China. Ecol Indic 64:328–337

    Google Scholar 

  • Gos P (2013) Modélisation des bouquets de services écosystémiques et intensification écologique des pratiques d’élevage dans Vercors. Doctoral dissertation, Université Grenoble Alpes

  • Groß J (2003) Variance inflation factors. R News 3(1):13–15

    Google Scholar 

  • Guerra CA, Metzger MJ, Maes J, Pinto-Correia T (2016) Policy impacts on regulating ecosystem services: looking at the implications of 60 years of landscape change on soil erosion prevention in a Mediterranean silvo-pastoral system. Landscape Ecol 31(2):271–290

    Google Scholar 

  • Haines-Young R, Potschin M (2013) Common international classification of ecosystem services (CICES): consultation on version 4 August–December 2012. EEA Framework Contract No. EEA/IEA/09/003

  • Harrell FE Jr (2019) Package ‘Hmisc’. https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/Hmisc/Hmisc.pdf. Accessed 15 Feb 2019

  • Howe C, Suich H, Vira B, Mace GM (2014) Creating win-wins from trade-offs? Ecosystem services for human well-being: a meta-analysis of ecosystem service trade-offs and synergies in the real world. Glob Environ Change 28:263–275

    Google Scholar 

  • Huang L, Cao W, Xu X, Fan J, Wang J (2018) Linking the benefits of ecosystem services to sustainable spatial planning of ecological conservation strategies. J Environ Manag 222:385–395

    Google Scholar 

  • Jaligot R, Chenal J, Bosch M, Hasler S (2019) Historical dynamics of ecosystem services and land management policies in Switzerland. Ecol Indic 101:81–90

    Google Scholar 

  • Jaligot R, Hasler S, Chenal J (2018) National assessment of cultural ecosystem services: participatory mapping in Switzerland. Ambio. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-018-1138-4

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Jopke C, Kreyling J, Maes J, Koellner T (2015) Interactions among ecosystem services across Europe: Bagplots and cumulative correlation coefficients reveal synergies trade-offs and regional patterns. Ecol Indic 49:46–52

    Google Scholar 

  • Kienast F, Frick J, van Strien MJ, Hunziker M (2015) The Swiss Landscape Monitoring Program—a comprehensive indicator set to measure landscape change. Ecol Model 295:136–150

    Google Scholar 

  • Legendre P, Legendre LF (2012) Numerical ecology, vol 24. Elsevier, Amsterdam

    Google Scholar 

  • Lin S, Wu R, Yang F, Wang J, Wu W (2018) Spatial trade-offs and synergies among ecosystem services within a global biodiversity hotspot. Ecol Indic 84:371–381

    Google Scholar 

  • Liu Y, Lü Y, Fu B, Harris P, Wu L (2019) Quantifying the spatio-temporal drivers of planned vegetation restoration on ecosystem services at a regional scale. Sci Total Environ 650:1029–1040

    CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Lorilla R, Poirazidis K, Kalogirou S, Detsis V, Martinis A (2018) Assessment of the spatial dynamics and interactions among multiple ecosystem services to promote effective policy making across Mediterranean Island landscapes. Sustainability 10(9):3285

    Google Scholar 

  • Luo Y, Lü Y, Fu B, Zhang Q, Li T, Hu W, Comber A (2019) Half century change of interactions among ecosystem services driven by ecological restoration: quantification and policy implications at a watershed scale in the Chinese Loess Plateau. Sci Total Environ 651:2546–2557

    CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Lüscher, C. 2003. 10 Jahre Fahrplan Fruchtfolge- flachen (FFF). Erfahrungen der Kantone, Erwartungen an den Bund. Bern, Switzerland

  • Maes J, Teller A, Erhard M, Liquete C, Braat L, Berry P, Egoh B, Puydarrieux P, Fiorina C, Santos F, Paracchini ML (2018) Mapping and assessment of ecosystems and their services: an analytical framework for ecosystem condition. Publications office of the European Union, Luxembourg

  • Mastrangelo ME, Weyland F, Villarino SH, Barral MP, Nahuelhual L, Laterra P (2014) Concepts and methods for landscape multifunctionality and a unifying framework based on ecosystem services. Landsc Ecol 29(2):345–358

    Google Scholar 

  • Mouchet MA, Lamarque P, Martín-López B, Crouzat E, Gos P, Byczek C, Lavorel S (2014) An interdisciplinary methodological guide for quantifying associations between ecosystem services. Glob Environ Change 28:298–308

    Google Scholar 

  • Mouchet MA, Paracchini ML, Schulp CJE, Stürck J, Verkerk PJ, Verburg PH, Lavorel S (2017) Bundles of ecosystem (dis) services and multifunctionality across European landscapes. Ecol Indic 73:23–28

    Google Scholar 

  • Oksanen J, Kindt R, Legendre P, O’Hara B, Stevens MHH, Oksanen MJ, Suggests MASS (2007) The vegan package. Community Ecol Package 10:631–637

    Google Scholar 

  • Opdam P, Steingröver E, Van Rooij S (2006) Ecological networks: a spatial concept for multi-actor planning of sustainable landscapes. Landsc Urban Plan 75(3–4):322–332

    Google Scholar 

  • Palomo I, Martín-López B, Potschin M, Haines-Young R, Montes C (2013) National Parks buffer zones and surrounding lands: mapping ecosystem service flows. Ecosyst Serv 4:104–116

    Google Scholar 

  • Paracchini ML, Pacini C, Jones MLM, Pérez-Soba M (2011) An aggregation framework to link indicators associated with multifunctional land use to the stakeholder evaluation of policy options. Ecol Indic 11:71–80

    Google Scholar 

  • Plieninger T, Draux H, Fagerholm N, Bieling C, Bürgi M, Kizos T, Verburg PH (2016) The driving forces of landscape change in Europe: a systematic review of the evidence. Land Use Policy 57:204–214

    Google Scholar 

  • Power AG (2010) Ecosystem services and agriculture: tradeoffs and synergies. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B 365(1554):2959–2971

    Google Scholar 

  • Qiu J, Carpenter SR, Booth EG, Motew M, Zipper SC, Kucharik CJ, Turner MG (2018) Understanding relationships among ecosystem services across spatial scales and over time. Environ Res Lett 13(5):054020

    Google Scholar 

  • Qiu J, Turner MG (2013) Spatial interactions among ecosystem services in an urbanizing agricultural watershed. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 110(29):12149–12154

    CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Queiroz C, Meacham M, Richter K, Norström AV, Andersson E, Norberg J, Peterson G (2015) Mapping bundles of ecosystem services reveals distinct types of multifunctionality within a Swedish landscape. Ambio 44(1):89–101

    PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Rabe SE, Gantenbein R, Richter KF, Grêt-Regamey A (2018) Increasing the credibility of expert-based models with preference surveys–Mapping recreation in the riverine zone. Ecosyst Serv 31:308–317

    Google Scholar 

  • Rall E, Bieling C, Zytynska S, Haase D (2017) Exploring city-wide patterns of cultural ecosystem service perceptions and use. Ecol Indic 77:80–95

    Google Scholar 

  • Raudsepp-Hearne C, Peterson GD, Bennett EM (2010) Ecosystem service bundles for analyzing tradeoffs in diverse landscapes. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 107(11):5242–5247

    CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Renard D, Rhemtulla JM, Bennett EM (2015) Historical dynamics in ecosystem service bundles. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 112(43):13411–13416

    CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Rewitzer S, Huber R, Grêt-Regamey A, Barkmann J (2017) Economic valuation of cultural ecosystem service changes to a landscape in the Swiss Alps. Ecosyst Serv 26:197–208

    Google Scholar 

  • Roces-Díaz JV, Vayreda J, Banqué-Casanovas M, Díaz-Varela E, Bonet JA, Brotons L, de-Miguel S, Herrando S, Martínez-Vilalta J (2018) The spatial level of analysis affects the patterns of forest ecosystem services supply and their relationships. Sci Total Environ 626:1270–1283

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Rodríguez-Loinaz G, Alday JG, Onaindia M (2015) Multiple ecosystem services landscape index: a tool for multifunctional landscapes conservation. J Environ Manag 147:152–163

    Google Scholar 

  • Santos-Martín F, Zorrilla-Miras P, Palomo-Ruiz I, Montes C, Benayas J, Maes J (2019) Protecting nature is necessary but not sufficient for conserving ecosystem services: a comprehensive assessment along a gradient of land-use intensity in Spain. Ecosyst Serv 35:43–51

    Google Scholar 

  • Schirpke U, Candiago S, Vigl LE, Jäger H, Labadini A, Marsoner T, Tappeiner U (2019) Integrating supply flow and demand to enhance the understanding of interactions among multiple ecosystem services. Sci Total Environ 651:928–941

    CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Schirpke U, Tasser E, Tappeiner U (2013) Predicting scenic beauty of mountain regions. Landsc Urban Plan 111:1–12

    Google Scholar 

  • Schneider MK, Homburger H, Scherer-Lorenzen M, Lüscher A (2013) Intensité de pâture et services écosystémiques dans les alpages. Rech Agron Suisse 4(5):222–229

    Google Scholar 

  • Schwaab J, Deb K, Goodman E, Kool S, Lautenbach S, Ryffel A, Grêt-Regamey A (2018) Using multi-objective optimization to secure fertile soils across municipalities. Appl Geogr 97:75–84

    Google Scholar 

  • Scott A, Carter C, Hardman M, Grayson N, Slaney T (2018) Mainstreaming ecosystem science in spatial planning practice: exploiting a hybrid opportunity space. Land Use Policy 70:232–246

    Google Scholar 

  • SFSO (Swiss Federal Statistical Office) (2015) L’utilisation du sol en Suisse: exploitation et analyse. https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/fr/home/statistiques/espace-environnement/utilisation-couverture-sol.assetdetail.349275.html. Accessed 25 May 2018

  • SFSO (Swiss Federal Statistical Office) (2018) Annuaire statistique de la Suisse 2018. https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/fr/home/statistiques/catalogues-banques-donnees/publications/ouvrages-synthese/annuaire-statistique-suisse.assetdetail.4522228.html. Accessed 25 May 2018

  • Spake R, Lasseur R, Crouzat E, Bullock JM, Lavorel S, Parks KE, Mouchet M (2017) Unpacking ecosystem service bundles: towards predictive mapping of synergies and trade-offs between ecosystem services. Glob Environ Change 47:37–50

    Google Scholar 

  • Statistique Vaud (2017) Districts et Communes: Autres tableaux. http://www.scris.vd.ch/Default.aspx?DomId=33. Accessed 15 Dec 2018

  • Statistique Vaud (2018) Finances communales: tableaux. http://www.scris.vd.ch/Default.aspx?DomID=1951. Accessed 05 Feb 2019

  • Stürck J, Schulp CJ, Verburg PH (2015) Spatio-temporal dynamics of regulating ecosystem services in Europe—the role of past and future land use change. Appl Geogr 63:121–135

    Google Scholar 

  • Swisstopo (2001) DHM25. https://shop.swisstopo.admin.ch/en/products/height_models/dhm25. Accessed May 2018

  • Tomscha SA, Gergel SE (2016) Ecosystem service trade-offs and synergies misunderstood without landscape history. Ecol Soc 21(1):43

    Google Scholar 

  • Tomscha SA, Sutherland IJ, Renard D, Gergel SE, Rhemtulla JM, Bennett EM, Clark EE (2016) A guide to historical data sets for reconstructing ecosystem service change over time. BioScience 66(9):747–762

    Google Scholar 

  • Turkelboom F, Leone M, Jacobs S, Kelemen E, García-Llorente M, Baró F, Thoonen M (2018) When we cannot have it all: ecosystem services trade-offs in the context of spatial planning. Ecosyst Serv 29:566–578

    Google Scholar 

  • Turner KG, Odgaard MV, Bøcher PK, Dalgaard T, Svenning JC (2014) Bundling ecosystem services in Denmark: trade-offs and synergies in a cultural landscape. Landsc Urban Plan 125:89–104

    Google Scholar 

  • Urban MC, Skelly DK, Burchsted D, Price W, Lowry S (2006) Stream communities across a rural–urban landscape gradient. Divers Distrib 12(4):337–350

    Google Scholar 

  • Vallet A, Locatelli B, Levrel H, Pérez CB, Imbach P, Carmona NE, Oszwald J (2016) Dynamics of ecosystem services during forest transitions in Reventazón Costa Rica. PLoS ONE 11(7):e0158615

    PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Vallet A, Locatelli B, Levrel H, Wunder S, Seppelt R, Scholes RJ, Oszwald J (2018) Relationships between ecosystem services: comparing methods for assessing tradeoffs and synergies. Ecol Econ 150:96–106

    Google Scholar 

  • van Berkel DB, Verburg PH (2014) Spatial quantification and valuation of cultural ecosystem services in an agricultural landscape. Ecol Indic 37:163–174

    Google Scholar 

  • Verhagen W, Van Teeffelen AJ, Compagnucci AB, Poggio L, Gimona A, Verburg PH (2016) Effects of landscape configuration on mapping ecosystem service capacity: a review of evidence and a case study in Scotland. Landscape Ecol 31(7):1457–1479

    Google Scholar 

  • Vigl LE, Schirpke U, Tasser E, Tappeiner U (2016) Linking long-term landscape dynamics to the multiple interactions among ecosystem services in the European Alps. Landscape Ecol 31(9):1903–1918

    Google Scholar 

  • Vigl LE, Tasser E, Schirpke U, Tappeiner U (2017) Using land use/land cover trajectories to uncover ecosystem service patterns across the Alps. Reg Environ Change 17(8):2237–2250

    Google Scholar 

  • Weller DE, Baker ME, Jordan TE (2011) Effects of riparian buffers on nitrate concentrations in watershed discharges: new models and management implications. Ecol Appl 21(5):1679–1695

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Wu J (2014) Urban ecology and sustainability: the state-of-the-science and future directions. Landsc Urban Plan 125:209–221

    Google Scholar 

  • Xu M, Dong X, Yang X, Wang R, Zhang K, Zhao Y, Jeppesen E (2017) Using palaeolimnological data and historical records to assess long-term dynamics of ecosystem services in typical Yangtze shallow lakes (China). Sci Total Environ 584:791–802

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Zarrineh N, Abbaspour K, van Griensven A, Jeangros B, Holzkämper A (2018) Model-based evaluation of land management strategies with regard to multiple ecosystem services. Sustainability 10(11):3844

    Google Scholar 

  • Zimmermann RC (2006) Recording rural landscapes and their cultural associations: some initial results and impressions. Environ Sci Policy 9(4):360–369

    Google Scholar 

  • Zuur AF, Ieno EN, Walker NJ, Saveliev AA, Smith G (2009) Mixed effects models and extensions in ecology with R. In: Gail M, Krickeberg K, Samet JM, Tsiatis A, Wong W (eds) Statistics for biology and health. Springer, New York

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Acknowledgements

This research would not have been possible without the help of those who provided assistance and data, including scientists from the Federal Office for Environment, the Federal Office for Agriculture, the Federal Statistical Office and the Federal Institute for Forests and Snow. We are also grateful to the experts at ETH Zürich and the University of Geneva for their input regarding the selection of ecosystem services.

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Urban and Regional Planning Community, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Rémi Jaligot, Jérôme Chenal & Martí Bosch

Authors
  1. Rémi Jaligot
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Jérôme Chenal
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Martí Bosch
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Rémi Jaligot.

Additional information

Publisher's Note

Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.

Electronic supplementary material

Below is the link to the electronic supplementary material.

Supplementary material 1 (DOCX 2910 kb)

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Jaligot, R., Chenal, J. & Bosch, M. Assessing spatial temporal patterns of ecosystem services in Switzerland. Landscape Ecol 34, 1379–1394 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-019-00850-7

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-019-00850-7

Keywords

Search

Navigation