TY  - JOUR
A1  - Schmidt, Katja
A1  - Martin-Lopez, Berta
A1  - Phillips, Peter M.
A1  - Julius, Eike
A1  - Makan, Neville
A1  - Walz, Ariane
T1  - Key landscape features in the provision of ecosystem services
BT  - Insights for management
JF  - Land use policy
N2  - Whereas ecosystem service research is increasingly being promoted in science and policy, the utilisation of ecosystem services knowledge remains largely underexplored for regional ecosystem management. To overcome the mere generation of knowledge and contribute to decision-making, scientists are facing the challenge of articulating specific implications of the ecosystem service approach for practical land use management. In this contribution, we compare the results of participatory mapping of ecosystem services with the existing management plan for the Pentland Hills Regional Park (Scotland, UK) to inform its future management plan. By conducting participatory mapping in a workshop with key stakeholders (n = 20), we identify hotspots of ecosystem services and the landscape features underpinning such hotspots. We then analyse to what extent these landscape features are the focus of the current management plan. We found a clear mismatch between the key landscape features underpinning the provision of ecosystem services and the management strategy suggested. Our findings allow for a better understanding of the required focus of future land use management to account for ecosystem services.
KW  - Participatory mapping
KW  - PPGIS
KW  - Landscape features
KW  - Content analysis
KW  - Land use management
KW  - Operationalisation
Y1  - 2018
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.12.022
SN  - 0264-8377
SN  - 1873-5754
VL  - 82
SP  - 353
EP  - 366
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Oxford
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Schildgen, Taylor F.
A1  - Robinson, Ruth A. J.
A1  - Savi, Sara
A1  - Phillips, William M.
A1  - Spencer, Joel Q. G.
A1  - Bookhagen, Bodo
A1  - Scherler, Dirk
A1  - Tofelde, Stefanie
A1  - Alonso, Ricardo N.
A1  - Kubik, Peter W.
A1  - Binnie, Steven A.
A1  - Strecker, Manfred
T1  - Landscape response to late Pleistocene climate change in NW Argentina: Sediment flux modulated by basin geometry and connectivity
JF  - Journal of geophysical research : Earth surface
N2  - Fluvial fill terraces preserve sedimentary archives of landscape responses to climate change, typically over millennial timescales. In the Humahuaca Basin of NW Argentina (Eastern Cordillera, southern Central Andes), our 29 new optically stimulated luminescence ages of late Pleistocene fill terrace sediments demonstrate that the timing of past river aggradation occurred over different intervals on the western and eastern sides of the valley, despite their similar bedrock lithology, mean slopes, and precipitation. In the west, aggradation coincided with periods of increasing precipitation, while in the east, aggradation coincided with decreasing precipitation or more variable conditions. Erosion rates and grain size dependencies in our cosmogenic Be-10 analyses of modern and fill terrace sediments reveal an increased importance of landsliding compared to today on the west side during aggradation, but of similar importance during aggradation on the east side. Differences in the timing of aggradation and the Be-10 data likely result from differences in valley geometry, which causes sediment to be temporarily stored in perched basins on the east side. It appears as if periods of increasing precipitation triggered landslides throughout the region, which induced aggradation in the west, but blockage of the narrow bedrock gorges downstream from the perched basins in the east. As such, basin geometry and fluvial connectivity appear to strongly influence the timing of sediment movement through the system. For larger basins that integrate subbasins with differing geometries or degrees of connectivity (like Humahuaca), sedimentary responses to climate forcing are likely attenuated.
KW  - berylium-10
KW  - optically stimulated luminescence
KW  - Humahuaca Basin
KW  - South American Monsoon System
KW  - fluvial terraces
KW  - landscape connectivity
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1002/2015JF003607
SN  - 2169-9003
SN  - 2169-9011
VL  - 121
SP  - 392
EP  - 414
PB  - American Geophysical Union
CY  - Washington
ER  -