When to Use What: A Comparison of Three Approaches to Quantify Relationships Among Ecosystem Services

Land, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 14(3), P. 644 - 644

Published: March 18, 2025

Sustainable landscape management requires accurately identifying the trade-offs and synergies among ecosystem services (ES). Three commonly utilized approaches to quantify ES trade-off/synergy relationships include space-for-time approach, background-adjusted temporal trend approach. However, similarities differences these three in same area remain unclear. Thus, we conducted a case study rapidly urbanizing Yangtze River Delta region, comparing based on annual data spanning from 2001 2020 for 12 types of ES. We found that: (1) detected by exhibit significant divergence, with only 1.45% consistency 66 pairs relationships. (2) All can overlook trade-offs, miss synergies, erroneously detect interactions where none exist. (3) The mechanisms contributing misidentification include: neglecting underlying assumptions different approaches, insufficient time interval length, short series data, aggregation effects, non-linear changes ESs, lag effects relationships, others. Our results indicate that each has its own advantages disadvantages Prior selecting an approach between ESs specific area, careful consideration availability characteristics chosen type, thorough examination uncertainties are imperative.

Language: Английский

Landscape science, coastal instruments, and landscape change: Evolutionary insights from Portugal

Progress in Planning, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 196, P. 100959 - 100959

Published: April 9, 2025

Language: Английский