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Impacts of land use and land cover change on the interactions among multiple soil-dependent ecosystem services (case study: Jiroft plain, Iran)

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The spatial and temporal distribution pattern is an outstanding feature of the relationship among ecosystem services (ESs) that explains links between human activities and disturbed chemical composition of ecosystems. This study investigated the spatiotemporal variation of land use/cover changes (LUCC) and quantifies the change in four essential ecosystem services with an emphasis on soil (nutrient delivery ratio, carbon storage, crop production, and water yield) and their relationships in the Jiroft plain, Iran, during 1996–2016 through analytical tools including Land Change Modeler, and the Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Tradeoff. During the 20-year concentrate period, there was a considerable overall gain in cropland (5396 km2) and urban (1787 km2), loss of unused land (5692 km2), water (2088 km2), and forest (1083 km2). As a result of LUCC, while crop production and nutrient delivery ratio showed a rising trend, overall carbon storage and water yield decreased. The spatiotemporal trade-off between carbon storage and crop production, the temporal trade-off between crop production and water yield, and synergy between water yield and crop production were widespread in Jiroft plain. These results showed that the interaction among ESs mutates over time and can be changed under planning and policies. This study will enrich the research of the geographical distribution of ESs interaction in dryland ecosystems to provide practical ecosystem management under local conditions.

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  • 12 February 2022

    This article is part of the special issue “Reclamation of polluted soils for food production and human health: Part 2” inadvertently published in the regular issue Vol. 43(10)”.

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This study, as an Internal Research Project, was supported by the Iran National Science Foundation (Grant No.: 98012044). The authors would like to thank Professor Mette Termansen, Department of Food and Resource Economics, the University of Copenhagen, for her critically reviewing the manuscript and constructive feedback.

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FA contributed to conceptualization and methodology, software writing–original draft preparation. HJ contributed to supervision and validation. BM contributed to data curation and reviewing. TM contributed to reviewing and editing. WZ contributed to data curation, reviewing, and editing. AK contributed to validation and supervision.

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This article is part of the special issue "Reclamation of polluted soils for food production and human health: Part 2” inadvertently published in the regular issue Vol. 43(10)”

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Adelisardou, F., Jafari, H.R., Malekmohammadi, B. et al. Impacts of land use and land cover change on the interactions among multiple soil-dependent ecosystem services (case study: Jiroft plain, Iran). Environ Geochem Health 43, 3977–3996 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10653-021-00875-5

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