Adaptive measures for mountain Mediterranean forest ecosystem services under climate and land cover change in the Mont-Ventoux regional nature park, France

Tuffery, Laetitia; Davi, Hendrik; López-García, Noelia; Rigolot, Eric; Jean, Florence; Stenger, Anne; Lefèvre, François

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Adaptive measures for mountain Mediterranean forest ecosystem services under climate and land cover change in the Mont-Ventoux regional nature park, France

Laetitia Tuffery¹,
Hendrik Davi²,
Noelia López-García³,
Eric Rigolot⁴,
Florence Jean⁴,
Anne Stenger⁵ &
François Lefèvre²

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Climate change (CC) and land use and land cover change (LULCC) threaten Mediterranean forests and the ecosystem services (ES) they provide. In complex socio-ecological systems and under high uncertainties, the resilience of ES has become the target objective for adaptive management strategies driven by decision-makers and local stakeholders. This work develops an integrative and territorial approach to combining biophysical modeling and local managers’ assessments to elaborate scenarios of LULCC in response to climate and socioeconomic changes. It also evaluates the impacts of forest ecosystem changes on coupled ES for different time horizons for a case study of the mountain Mediterranean forests of Mont-Ventoux regional nature park. The results demonstrate first that the future ES provisions predicted by biophysical modeling in this area are less affected by CC than expected by local managers. Furthermore, LULCC increases the changes in ES provision and accentuates the difference between climate scenarios. These results originate from a combination of two effects: (1) pessimistic predictions by local managers and, as a consequence, and (2) anticipatory actions that tend to reinforce or even accelerate the expected changes in the mountain Mediterranean forest area.

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The modeled climate scenario data follow the Representative Concentration Pathways (RCP)
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This work was supported by a grant from the ERA-NET FORESTERRA project INFORMED. The authors wish to thank the following for their cooperation and constructive discussions regarding the issues raised in this paper: Olivier Delaprison, Jean Ladier, Anthony Roux, Philippe Dreyfus, the different members of the INFORMED workshop, and reviewers/participants at the Ecosystem Services Partnership (ESP) Regional Europe conference (San Sebastian, 2018) for their useful comments.

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CEE-M, Univ. Montpellier, CNRS, INRAE, Institut Agro, Montpellier, France
Laetitia Tuffery
UR629, Écologie des Forêts Méditerranéennes, INRAE, Avignon, France
Hendrik Davi & François Lefèvre
Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre, Swedish, University of Agricultural Sciences, Box 49, 23053, Alnarp, Sweden
Noelia López-García
Écologie des Forêts Méditerranéennes, INRAE, Avignon, France
Eric Rigolot & Florence Jean
INRAE, Université de Strasbourg, BETA, 54000, Nancy, France
Anne Stenger

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Tuffery, L., Davi, H., López-García, N. et al. Adaptive measures for mountain Mediterranean forest ecosystem services under climate and land cover change in the Mont-Ventoux regional nature park, France. Reg Environ Change 21, 12 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-020-01732-4

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Mountain Mediterranean forests
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