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Integrating supply and demand in ecosystem service bundles characterization across Mediterranean transformed landscapes

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Context

Humans continually transform landscapes, affecting the ecosystem services (ES) they provide. Thus, the spatial relationships among services vary across landscapes. Managers and decision makers have access to a variety of tools for mapping landscapes and analyzing their capacity to provide multiple ES.

Objectives

This paper characterizes and maps ES bundles across transformed landscapes in southeast Spain incorporating both the ecological and social perspectives. Our specific goals were to: (1) quantify ES biophysical supply, (2) identify public awareness, (3) map ES bundles, and (4) characterize types of ES bundles based on their social-ecological dimensions.

Methods

Biophysical models and face-to-face social surveys were used to quantify and map ES bundles and explore the public awareness in a highly transformed Mediterranean region. Then, we classified ES bundles into four types using a matrix crossing the degree of biophysical ES supply and the degree of social awareness.

Results

Results mapped seven ES bundles types representing diverse social-ecological dynamics. ES bundles mapped at the municipality level showed mismatches between their biophysical provision and the public awareness, which has important implications for operationalizing the bundles concept for landscape planning and management. ES bundles characterization identified four types of bundles scenarios.

Conclusions

We propose an ES bundles classification that incorporates both their social and ecological dimensions. Our findings can be used by land managers to identify areas in which ES are declining as well as priority areas for maximizing ES provision and can help to identify conflicts associated with new management and planning practices.

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Acknowledgements

Funding for the development of this research was provided by the Andalusian Center for the Assessment of Global Change (CAESCG) (GLOCHARID project). C.Q.S. was funded by a grant from the University of Almeria to perform a short research stay at the Stockholm Resilience Centre to develop the present study. A.J.C. was partially funded by the NSF Idaho EPSCoR Program and by the National Science Foundation under award number IIA-1301792. A grant from the Spanish National Institute for Agriculture and Food Research and Technology (INIA), which is co-funded by the Social European Fund provided support for M.G.L. Special thanks for Juan Miguel Requena for his valuable help and advices about R. This research is a contribution to the Programme on Ecosystem Change and Society (www.pecs-science.org).

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  1. Social-Ecological Interactions in Agricultural Systems Lab, Faculty of Organic Agricultural Sciences, University of Kassel, Steinstraße 19, 37213, Witzenhausen, Germany

    Cristina Quintas-Soriano

  2. Biology and Geology Department, Andalusian Center for the Assessment and Monitoring of Global Change (CAESCG), University of Almeria, 04120, Almería, Spain

    Cristina Quintas-Soriano & Antonio J. Castro

  3. FRACTAL Association, San Remigio 2, 28022, Madrid, Spain

    Cristina Quintas-Soriano

  4. Social-Ecological Systems Laboratory, Department of Ecology, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049, Madrid, Spain

    Marina García-Llorente

  5. Applied Research and Agricultural Extension Department, Madrid Institute for Rural, Agricultural and Food Research and Development (IMIDRA), Finca Experimental el Encín, 28800, Alcalá De Henares, Madrid, Spain

    Marina García-Llorente

  6. Stockholm Resilience Center, Stockholm University, Kräftriket 2B, SE-10691, Stockholm, Sweden

    Albert Norström, Megan Meacham & Garry Peterson

  7. Social-Ecological Research Laboratory, Department of Biological Sciences, Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID, 83209, USA

    Antonio J. Castro

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Quintas-Soriano, C., García-Llorente, M., Norström, A. et al. Integrating supply and demand in ecosystem service bundles characterization across Mediterranean transformed landscapes. Landscape Ecol 34, 1619–1633 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-019-00826-7

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