Monitoring social–ecological networks for biodiversity and ecosystem services in human-dominated landscapes
The demand the human population is placing on the environment has triggered accelerated rates of biodiversity change and created trade-offs among the ecosystem services we depend upon. Decisions designed to reverse these trends require the best possible information obtained by monitoring ecological...
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| author | Carina Rauen Firkowski Amanda M. Schwantes Marie-Josée Fortin Andrew Gonzalez |
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| description | The demand the human population is placing on the environment has triggered accelerated rates of biodiversity change and created trade-offs among the ecosystem services we depend upon. Decisions designed to reverse these trends require the best possible information obtained by monitoring ecological and social dimensions of change. Here, we conceptualize a network framework to monitor change in social–ecological systems. We contextualize our framework within Ostrom’s social–ecological system framework and use it to discuss the challenges of monitoring biodiversity and ecosystem services across spatial and temporal scales. We propose that spatially explicit multilayer and multiscale monitoring can help estimate the range of variability seen in social–ecological systems with varying levels of human modification across the landscape. We illustrate our framework using a conceptual case study on the ecosystem service of maple syrup production. We argue for the use of analytical tools capable of integrating qualitative and quantitative knowledge of social–ecological systems to provide a causal understanding of change across a network. Altogether, our conceptual framework provides a foundation for establishing monitoring systems. Operationalizing our framework will allow for the detection of ecosystem service change and assessment of its drivers across several scales, informing the long-term sustainability of biodiversity and ecosystem services. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-bde1c019f612423e8a5fff6eaf0729722022-12-21T18:22:16ZengCanadian Science PublishingFACETS2371-16712021-10-01611670169210.1139/facets-2020-0114Monitoring social–ecological networks for biodiversity and ecosystem services in human-dominated landscapesCarina Rauen Firkowski0Amanda M. Schwantes1Marie-Josée Fortin2Andrew Gonzalez3Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3A 1B1, Canada Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 3B2, CanadaDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 3B2, CanadaDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 3B2, CanadaDepartment of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3A 1B1, CanadaThe demand the human population is placing on the environment has triggered accelerated rates of biodiversity change and created trade-offs among the ecosystem services we depend upon. Decisions designed to reverse these trends require the best possible information obtained by monitoring ecological and social dimensions of change. Here, we conceptualize a network framework to monitor change in social–ecological systems. We contextualize our framework within Ostrom’s social–ecological system framework and use it to discuss the challenges of monitoring biodiversity and ecosystem services across spatial and temporal scales. We propose that spatially explicit multilayer and multiscale monitoring can help estimate the range of variability seen in social–ecological systems with varying levels of human modification across the landscape. We illustrate our framework using a conceptual case study on the ecosystem service of maple syrup production. We argue for the use of analytical tools capable of integrating qualitative and quantitative knowledge of social–ecological systems to provide a causal understanding of change across a network. Altogether, our conceptual framework provides a foundation for establishing monitoring systems. Operationalizing our framework will allow for the detection of ecosystem service change and assessment of its drivers across several scales, informing the long-term sustainability of biodiversity and ecosystem services.https://doi.org/10.1139/facets-2020-0114ecosystem servicesmonitoringmultilayermultiscalenetworkssocial–ecological systems |
| spellingShingle | Carina Rauen Firkowski Amanda M. Schwantes Marie-Josée Fortin Andrew Gonzalez Monitoring social–ecological networks for biodiversity and ecosystem services in human-dominated landscapes FACETS ecosystem services monitoring multilayer multiscale networks social–ecological systems |
| title | Monitoring social–ecological networks for biodiversity and ecosystem services in human-dominated landscapes |
| title_full | Monitoring social–ecological networks for biodiversity and ecosystem services in human-dominated landscapes |
| title_fullStr | Monitoring social–ecological networks for biodiversity and ecosystem services in human-dominated landscapes |
| title_full_unstemmed | Monitoring social–ecological networks for biodiversity and ecosystem services in human-dominated landscapes |
| title_short | Monitoring social–ecological networks for biodiversity and ecosystem services in human-dominated landscapes |
| title_sort | monitoring social ecological networks for biodiversity and ecosystem services in human dominated landscapes |
| topic | ecosystem services monitoring multilayer multiscale networks social–ecological systems |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1139/facets-2020-0114 |
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