Valuing and mapping cork and carbon across land use scenarios in a Portuguese montado landscape

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Autor(a) principal: von Essen, Marius
Data de Publicação: 2019
Outros Autores: Rosário, Inês T., Santos-Reis, Margarida, Nicholas, Kimberly A.
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10451/50292
Resumo: 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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title Valuing and mapping cork and carbon across land use scenarios in a Portuguese montado landscape
spellingShingle Valuing and mapping cork and carbon across land use scenarios in a Portuguese montado landscape
von Essen, Marius
title_short 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_sort Valuing and mapping cork and carbon across land use scenarios in a Portuguese montado landscape
author von Essen, Marius
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Rosário, Inês T.
Santos-Reis, Margarida
Nicholas, Kimberly A.
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Santos-Reis, Margarida
Nicholas, Kimberly A.
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Santos-Reis, Margarida
Nicholas, Kimberly A.
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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