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Valuing and mapping cork and carbon across land use scenarios in a Portuguese montado landscape
The ecosystem services approach can inform decision-making by accounting for both short- and long-term benefits from different land use options. Here we used the InVEST toolkit to quantify and map key ecosystem services at the largest publicly-owned agro-silvo-pastoral farmstead in Portugal–a site r...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6405188/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30845222 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0212174 |
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author | von Essen, Marius do Rosário, Inês T. Santos-Reis, Margarida Nicholas, Kimberly A. |
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description | The ecosystem services approach can inform decision-making by accounting for both short- and long-term benefits from different land use options. Here we used the InVEST toolkit to quantify and map key ecosystem services at the largest publicly-owned agro-silvo-pastoral farmstead in Portugal–a site representative for the montado landscape. We analyzed how Provisioning (cork production) and Regulating & Maintenance (carbon storage and sequestration) services would be affected under three land use change scenarios, which were developed in collaboration with the forest manager of the study area: Cattle Intensification, Forest Improvement, and Residential Development. Results show that increasing cattle or residential development would deliver substantially lower levels of services. We find that extensive management, improvements to forest quality, and promotion of traditional livestock grazing would provide the highest levels of assessed ecosystem services, resulting in 13.5% more carbon storage (worth between $0.34-$7.79 million USD depending on carbon price) and 62.7% more cork production (total value of USD $3.5 million) than the current land use. However, a shift in economic incentives to make sustainable cork harvesting and traditional low-density grazing of smaller ruminants like sheep and goats profitable are likely needed to reward traditional land stewardship and help support this iconic Mediterranean landscape in the future. |
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spelling | pubmed-64051882019-03-17 Valuing and mapping cork and carbon across land use scenarios in a Portuguese montado landscape von Essen, Marius do Rosário, Inês T. Santos-Reis, Margarida Nicholas, Kimberly A. PLoS One Research Article The ecosystem services approach can inform decision-making by accounting for both short- and long-term benefits from different land use options. Here we used the InVEST toolkit to quantify and map key ecosystem services at the largest publicly-owned agro-silvo-pastoral farmstead in Portugal–a site representative for the montado landscape. We analyzed how Provisioning (cork production) and Regulating & Maintenance (carbon storage and sequestration) services would be affected under three land use change scenarios, which were developed in collaboration with the forest manager of the study area: Cattle Intensification, Forest Improvement, and Residential Development. Results show that increasing cattle or residential development would deliver substantially lower levels of services. We find that extensive management, improvements to forest quality, and promotion of traditional livestock grazing would provide the highest levels of assessed ecosystem services, resulting in 13.5% more carbon storage (worth between $0.34-$7.79 million USD depending on carbon price) and 62.7% more cork production (total value of USD $3.5 million) than the current land use. However, a shift in economic incentives to make sustainable cork harvesting and traditional low-density grazing of smaller ruminants like sheep and goats profitable are likely needed to reward traditional land stewardship and help support this iconic Mediterranean landscape in the future. Public Library of Science 2019-03-07 /pmc/articles/PMC6405188/ /pubmed/30845222 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0212174 Text en © 2019 von Essen et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article von Essen, Marius do Rosário, Inês T. Santos-Reis, Margarida Nicholas, Kimberly A. Valuing and mapping cork and carbon across land use scenarios in a Portuguese montado landscape |
title | Valuing and mapping cork and carbon across land use scenarios in a Portuguese montado landscape |
title_full | Valuing and mapping cork and carbon across land use scenarios in a Portuguese montado landscape |
title_fullStr | Valuing and mapping cork and carbon across land use scenarios in a Portuguese montado landscape |
title_full_unstemmed | Valuing and mapping cork and carbon across land use scenarios in a Portuguese montado landscape |
title_short | Valuing and mapping cork and carbon across land use scenarios in a Portuguese montado landscape |
title_sort | valuing and mapping cork and carbon across land use scenarios in a portuguese montado landscape |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6405188/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30845222 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0212174 |
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