Mapping and Identification of Ecosystem Services Hotspots in the Brazilian Pampa Biome.
The intensification and expansion of changes in land use and land cover (LULC) can reduce the availability and quality of natural habitats and ecosystem services (ES). These changes have generated environmental damage in different parts of the world, especially in biomes more susceptible to modifica...
| Publicado en: | Environmental Management Vol. 75; no. 3; pp. 538 - 551 |
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Springer Nature
Mar2025
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=183283640&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 183283640 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 0364152X O5H jtl: Environmental Management issn: 0364152X maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Mar2025 vid: 75 iid: 3 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature place: New York, New York artinfo: ui: 183283640 180420681 10.1007/s00267-024-02069-y 183283640 ppf: 538 ppct: 13 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Mapping and Identification of Ecosystem Services Hotspots in the Brazilian Pampa Biome. aug: au: da Silva, Cássia Fernanda Martins Campos, Murillo César Céspedes da Silva Costa, Diógenes Félix Schneck, Fabiana Hepp, Luiz Ubiratan affil: https://ror.org/05hpfkn88 Programa de Pós-graduação em Biologia de Ambientes Aquáticos, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Rio Grande, Rio Grande, RS, Brazil sug: ab: The intensification and expansion of changes in land use and land cover (LULC) can reduce the availability and quality of natural habitats and ecosystem services (ES). These changes have generated environmental damage in different parts of the world, especially in biomes more susceptible to modifications, such as the Pampa biome in the extreme south of Brazil. The Pampa biome has been neglected by environmental protection laws, despite its broad ecosystem and social importance. In this study, we used InVEST models to map and quantify five ES provided (i.e., water supply, carbon stock, groundwater stock, sediment retention and habitat quality) by 14 watersheds distributed in the Brazilian Pampa biome as well as determine ES hotspots by summing the areas with high provision of ES. We identified low availability of water supply and groundwater stock in practically the entire study area. High sediment retention and carbon stock were reported in areas with the presence of native vegetation. In addition, despite the large degraded areas, we observed high habitat quality associated with native vegetation in all studied watersheds. The hotspots varied spatially in the study area according to the proposed scenarios, the supply and the overlap of ES. Scenario 1 (>50% of ES) presented a larger area of high provision of ES. In contrast, scenario 2 (>75% of ES) presented smaller patches of areas with high provision of ES distributed across different watershed. We observed that large territorial extensions with high and medium provision of ES are vulnerable to the negative effects of LULC. Our study presented scenarios that indicate areas of high provision of ES, contributing to a more practical application, being a simplified and useful tool that can assist conservation and sustainable policies. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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