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Ecosystem services at risk from disturbance in Europe's forests

<p>This repository contains the risk map for each ecosystem service (timber supply, carbon storage, soil erosion control, outdoor recreation) and disturbance (windthrows, bark beetle, wildfires). It also includes the individual risk components: exposed values, hazard magnitude, susceptibility and lack of adaptive capacity. The exact details and methods are described in the following paper:&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p>Lecina-Diaz J, Senf C, Gr&uuml;nig M, Seidl R (2024). Ecosystem services at risk from disturbance in Europe&rsquo;s forests. Global Change Biology. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16172">https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17242</a></p> <p>The spatial reference system is EPSG 3035 (ETRS89 / LAEA Europe).</p>

opencc-by-4.0Feb 2024View details →
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Data from: Accounting for uncertainty in marine ecosystem service predictions for spatial prioritisation

<p>Spatial assessments of Ecosystem Services (ES) are increasingly used in environmental management and spatial planning, but rarely provide information on the accuracy of predictions. Uncertainty estimates are essential to allow for confidence in the quality and credibility of ES assessments to enable informed decision-making. In marine environments, the need for uncertainty assessments for ES is unparalleled as they are data scarce, poorly (spatially) defined, with complex interconnectivity of seascapes. This study illustrates the uncertainty associated with a principle-based method for ES modelling by accounting for model variability, data coverage, and uncertainty in thresholds and parameters. A sensitivity analysis was applied on ES models for marine bivalves (<em>Austrovenus stutchburyi</em> and <em>Paphies australis</em>) and their contribution to <em>Food provision, Water quality regulation, Nitrogen removal,</em> and <em>Sediment stabilisation</em>.<em> </em>ES estimates from the sensitivity analysis were compared against baseline ES predictions. Spatial uncertainty patterns were analysed for individual ES through bi-plots and multiple ES through spatial prioritisation using Zonation. Results showed spatially explicit differences in uncertainty patterns for ES and between species. <em>Food</em><em> provision</em> had highest maximum uncertainty (&gt;5 points) but also the largest area of high ES and high certainty conditions. Zonation analysis conducted on baseline and conservative ES values showed overall robust outcomes of top 30% area, but important nuances through shifts in top 10% and top 5% area that allowed for a consistently better representation of ES when accounting for uncertainty. The spatial prioritisation in combination with the ES uncertainty biplots provide tools for spatial planning of individual and multiple ES to focus on area of highest value with highest certainty and can thereby help reduce risk and aid informed decision-making at acceptable confidence levels. This type of information is urgently needed in marine ES assessments and their management, but likewise extends to other environments to improve transparency. </p>

opencc-zeroMar 2024View details →
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Data from: Beyond the metropolis: street tree communities and resident perceptions on ecosystem services in small urban centers in India

<p>This dataset includes road transect characteristics, tree data and interview data (linked through transect number) from two cities in India - Kochi and Panjim, collected in 2019-2020 as part of the study:</p> <p>Beyond the metropolis: street tree communities and resident perceptions on ecosystem services in small urban centers in India</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>

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The combined effects of resource landscapes and herbivory on pollination services in agro-ecosystems

<p>We apply a resource landscape approach to map the spatial distribution of floral resources across landscapes using neighbourhood modelling and empirical data on floral availability at specific land-use types. In each of 25 Mediterranean landscapes, spanning a gradient of natural-agricultural land use intensity, we established a pair of arrays of potted phytometer plants (White Wall-rocket, <em>Diplotaxis erucoides</em>)<em> </em>that were either aphid-infested or aphid-free. In each array, we recorded the activity of insect flower visitors and subsequent seed-set. At the same time, we also recorded the relative flower abundance in dominant land uses at 1 km radii around each array.</p>

opencc-zeroMar 2024View details →
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Global trends and scenarios for terrestrial biodiversity and ecosystem services from 1900-2050. Data and Code. Project BES-SIM 1.

<p>This archive contains all scripts and data used for analysis and figures for the paper <strong>Pereira et al. (2024). Global trends and scenarios for terrestrial biodiversity and ecosystem services from 1900-2050. Science.&nbsp;</strong>The paper is the result of the BES SIM 1 project.&nbsp;</p>

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Disentangling effects of climate and land use on biodiversity and ecosystem services – a multi-scale experimental design

<p>1. Climate and land-use change are key drivers of environmental degradation in the Anthropocene, but too little is known about their interactive effects on biodiversity and ecosystem services. Long-term data on biodiversity trends are currently lacking. Furthermore, previous ecological studies have rarely considered climate and land use in a joint design, did not achieve variable independence or lost statistical power by not covering the full range of environmental gradients.</p> <p>2. Here, we introduce a multi-scale space-for-time study design to disentangle effects of climate and land use on biodiversity and ecosystem services. The site selection approach coupled extensive GIS-based exploration and correlation heatmaps with a crossed and nested design covering regional, landscape and local scales. Its implementation in Bavaria (Germany) resulted in a set of study plots that maximize the potential range and independence of environmental variables at different spatial scales.</p> <p>3. Stratifying the state of Bavaria into five climate zones (reference period 1981–2010) and three prevailing land-use types, i.e. near-natural, agriculture and urban, resulted in 60 study regions (5.8x5.8 km quadrants) covering a mean annual temperature gradient of 5.6–9.8 °C and a spatial extent of ~310x310 km. Within these regions, we nested 180 study plots located in contrasting local land-use types, i.e. forests, grasslands, arable land or settlement (local climate gradient 4.5–10 °C). This approach achieved low correlations between climate and land use (proportional cover) at the regional and landscape scale with |r≤0.33| and |r≤0.29|, respectively. Furthermore, using correlation heatmaps for local plot selection reduced potentially confounding relationships between landscape composition and configuration for plots located in forests, arable land and settlements.</p> <p>4. The suggested design expands upon previous research in covering a significant range of environmental gradients and including a diversity of dominant land-use types at different scales within different climatic contexts. It allows independent assessment of the relative contribution of multi-scale climate and land use on biodiversity and ecosystem services. Understanding potential interdependencies among global change drivers is essential to develop effective restoration and mitigation strategies against biodiversity decline, especially in expectation of future climatic changes. Importantly, this study also provides a baseline for long-term ecological monitoring programs.</p>

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Complex landscapes stabilize farm bird communities and their expected ecosystem services

<p>1. Birds play many roles within agroecosystems including as consumers of crops and pests, carriers of pathogens, and beloved icons. Birds are also rapidly declining across North America, in part due to agricultural intensification. Thus, it is imperative to identify how to manage agroecosystems to best support birds for multi-functional outcomes (e.g., crop production and conservation). Both the average amounts of services/disservices provided and their temporal stability are important for effective farm planning.</p> <p>2. Here, we conducted point-count surveys for four years across 106 locations on 27 diversified farms in Washington and Oregon, USA. We classified birds as ecosystem service or disservice providers using indices spanning supporting, regulating, provisioning, and cultural services/disservices. We then examined service/disservice index pairwise correlations and assessed the relative importance of local, farm, and landscape complexity on the average and temporal stability of avian service/disservice provider indices.</p> <p>3. Generally, service provider indices (production benefitting birds, grower appreciation, and conservation scores) were positively correlated with each other. Foodborne pathogen risk, grower disapproval, and identity/iconic value indices were also positively correlated with each other. However, the crop damaging bird index generally had low correlations with other indices.</p> <p>4. Farms that implemented more conservation-friendly management practices generally had higher average service provider indices, but farm management did not impact disservice provider indices, except for grower disapproval. Average disservice provider indices were lower on farms in complex landscapes.</p> <p>5. Local vertical vegetation complexity tended to increase the temporal stability of service provider indices but did not affect the disservice provider indices. Greater landscape complexity was generally associated with increased temporal stability of service and disservice provider indices. Increased landscape complexity may stabilize bird communities by increasing bird community evenness, which in turn, positively predicted temporal stability of all service/disservice provider indices.</p> <p>6. <i>Policy implications</i>: Our results suggest that farmers can effectively manage their farms to harness ecosystem services from birds through farm diversification. Disservices provided by birds, however, appear to be most negatively impacted by landscape-level complexity. Thus, greater incentives for farmers to increase seminatural cover at the landscape-scale are likely necessary to achieve multifunctional outcomes for conservation and agriculture.</p>

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Dataset to study "Disentangling ecosystem services perceptions from blue infrastructure around a rapidly expanding megacity"

<p>This dataset includes the raw data of a survey of 536 local residents along two rural-urban gradients around Bengaluru, India. The dataset sheet presents respondents&#39; socio-demographic characteristics (village, village stratum, gender, age education, religion, length of residence, caste, occupation). It then displays Likert-scale answers, ranging from 1 (&quot;not important&quot; to 5 (&quot;very important&quot;), on agreement about the importance of water-filled and dry lakes (shown on photographs) for the provision of the respective ecosystem services and disservices, based on their livelihood needs and experiences. It then shows the answers to open questions on challenges and management options regarding lakes. The complete method is described in: Plieninger, T., Thapa, P., Bhaskar, D., Nagendra, H., Torralba, M., &amp; Zoderer, B. M. (2022): Disentangling ecosystem services perceptions from blue infrastructure around a rapidly expanding megacity. Landscape and Urban Planning, in press.</p>

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Parasitism dramatically alters the ecosystem services provided by freshwater mussels

<p>Parasites can indirectly affect ecosystem function by altering host phenotype, but the trait-mediated impacts of parasitism at an ecosystem level remain poorly characterised. However, understanding the influence of parasites is central to understanding the ecosystem services provided by host species, especially in an era of global environmental change.</p> <p>We examined the effect of native (the trematode <em>Rhipidocotyle campanula</em>) and invasive (the bitterling fish <em>Rhodeus amarus</em>) parasites, and their interaction, on the clearance rates of unionid mussels, a dominant ecosystem-engineering group that modifies freshwater ecosystems worldwide. We used a combination of field experiments, laboratory experiments, and ecological simulations to demonstrate the phenotypic impact of parasites on the functional response of two mussel species across an environmental gradient (suspended particle concentration), and extended this with host and parasite community data to demonstrate the consequences for a real-world ecosystem, the Old West River in Cambridgeshire, England.</p> <p>Both parasites altered the clearance rates of their hosts but in contrasting fashion: while <em>R. campanula</em> increased host clearance rates relative to uninfected conspecifics under all conditions, <em>R. amarus</em> suppressed clearance rates at high suspended particle concentrations (eutrophic conditions) but elevated them otherwise. The parasites displayed different infection patterns in the two host species, and the invasive <em>R. amarus</em> rarely co-infects mussels with <em>R. campanula</em>.</p> <p>Given their disparate effects, the parasites' distributions reversed the relative filtration capacity of the two host species under high vs. low concentrations of suspended particles, demonstrating how differences between the infection patterns of native and invasive parasites, as well as their individual effects, need to be considered. Overall, the proportion of daily river discharge filtered by the combined mussel community changed by up to 96% in the presence of parasites. By incorporating multiple host species and multiple parasite species, we provide ecologically relevant evidence for the trait-mediated effects of parasites on ecosystem processes.</p> <p>Our study demonstrates that parasitism can significantly alter wider ecosystem processes by changing the phenotype of their host. Future work on ecosystem function should take parasitism into account, and consider both trait-mediated and density-mediated effects.</p>

opencc-zeroMay 2022View details →
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Climate change threatens the distribution of major woody species and ecosystem services provision in southern Africa

<p>Species occurrence points used in this study to investigate the effect of climate change on the distribution of eight tree species in 18 countries in southern Africa, covering 36% of the continent. We proposed a loser/winner ranking of the species based on the changes in climatic suitability within their historical distributions as well as future gains and losses of suitable areas. We interpreted these findings in terms of changes in the provision of key ES (timber, food, energy, and medicine), and identified hotspots of ES provision decline. We used species presence data from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, climatic data from the AfriClim dataset, and the MaXent algorithm to project the changes in species&#39; land suitability. &nbsp;</p>

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Functional composition of plant communities mediates biomass effects on ecosystem service recovery across an experimental dryland restoration network

<p>Land degradation can result in a loss of critical ecosystem services that we often seek to restore through re-establishment of desired plant communities. Trait-based approaches have the potential to target specific ecosystem services based on associations between the functional composition of plant communities and ecosystem properties that serve as indicators of those services. The effect of functional composition on ecosystem recovery may depend on the amount of restored plant biomass, itself a supporting service frequently targeted in restoration efforts. Yet, interactions between functional composition and biomass are not formally integrated into trait-based analytical frameworks. We tested the hypothesis that functional composition of plant communities both drives, and interacts with, biomass production to influence indicators of soil functioning and weed suppression across a network of degraded dryland restoration experiments. This networked approach allowed us to identify generalized effects of functional composition on ecosystem recovery across a range of dryland climate conditions. Climate had a substantial effect on ecosystem indicators, with weed cover and soil surface stability increasing in more arid climates, water infiltration increasing with precipitation, and aggregate structure increasing with less freezing. After accounting for climate effects across study sites, we found significant effects of community-weighted mean (CWM) trait values on biomass, particularly a positive effect of leaf carbon-to-nitrogen ratio, and of CWM-biomass interactions on other ecosystem indicators. Cover of exotic species was reduced in restored communities with a combination of low leaf dry matter content and high biomass, soil water infiltration increased with lower specific root length and high biomass, and soil aggregate stability increased with higher root dry matter content and high biomass, among other effects. Functional diversity had no significant effects on any ecosystem indicators. Synthesis: The influence of community functional composition on ecosystem properties increases with community biomass, particularly in disturbed or low productivity systems. This suggests that active management should not only focus on trait values that optimize individual ecosystem indicators, but also how those functional strategies are complementary or counter to those that increase biomass.</p>

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Mitigating ecosystem service tradeoffs in rangelands by using grazing duration and timing to manage water quality

<p>1. Mitigating ecosystem service (ES) tradeoffs is a key management goal in locations where stakeholders value different and potentially conflicting ecosystem services (ESs). However, studies are not often designed to examine how local management actions address ES tradeoffs, and therefore do not provide options that can alleviate conflict.</p> <p>2. In semi-arid rangelands, we examined the potential for managers to mitigate tradeoffs between livestock production and water quality. To move away from solutions that offer cattle removal as a singular management strategy, we examined how cattle presence, plus two elements of rotational grazing - the length of time cattle spend on rangeland (i.e., duration), and the season grazed (i.e., timing), affected stream Escherichia coli (E. coli concentrations). We also modeled how grazing duration and timing affected the ability to meet regulatory benchmarks for water quality throughout a grazing season.</p> <p>3. Grazing duration controlled the length of time E. coli concentrations were high in streams. In short- and medium-duration systems, E. coli concentrations were high for shorter periods of time than in long-duration systems, resulting in fewer violations of national and state water quality standards.</p> <p>4. Stream E. coli concentrations showed a consistent seasonal pattern, starting low in spring, peaking in summer, and declining towards fall. Thus, grazing during spring or fall, rather than in summer, reduced the number of days that E. coli levels exceeded water quality standards.</p> <p>5. Our results suggest that reducing the grazing duration and shifting its timing are complementary strategies that can mitigate the tradeoffs between livestock grazing and water quality without fencing-off riparian areas or removing cattle from pastures with streams.</p> <p>6. Synthesis and applications. In this study, we found grazing duration and timing can be used as tools to mitigate ES tradeoffs between cattle production and water quality in rangeland streams. Shorter grazing durations reduced the number of days <i>E. coli</i> levels were above regulatory limits, as did grazing that occurred either early or late in the season. These results support the idea that rotational grazing can be an effective strategy to manage water quality in semi-arid rangelands. They also highlight the need for more grazing studies that incorporate gradients of duration and timing into study designs.</p>

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Survey results for: Public perceptions of cultural ecosystem services provided by beach nourishment and eelgrass restoration in southern Sweden

<p>Ecosystem-based protection is becoming a viable adaptation option to conventional engineered solutions to rising sea levels and coastal erosion. While the environmental and biological ecosystem services provided by ecosystem-based adaptation measures such as beach nourishment and/or seagrass plantations are being acknowledged and analysed, less attention has been paid to the social or cultural dimensions of these services. This paper builds upon the emerging body of research that explores cultural ecosystem services in coastal areas and how they are perceived by the people who live, work and recreate in these areas. The aim of the paper is to take stock of and understand public and stakeholder perceptions of the cultural ecosystem services that may accrue through eelgrass (<em>Zostera marina</em>) restoration in tandem with beach nourishment in Southern Sweden. The empirical research is based on an online open-ended questionnaire in the coastal municipalities of Båstad, Trelleborg, Ystad and Kristianstad. The results demonstrate that virtually all respondents had noticed a change in the coastline in recent years, mainly that the coastline had retreated. While beach nourishment measures were recognized among respondents to counter the shoreline erosion, there was very little understanding of the role that eelgrass plantations can play in creating biodiversity and benefits for society. Still, most acknowledged the importance of making room for water and biodiversity at the coast, stating how the coastline was valued for primarily health and spiritual reasons. This knowledge will help local, regional, and national decision-makers and regulatory authorities to make evidence-based choices for coastal protection, by complementing the analysis of environmental and physical ecosystem-services with cultural and socio-economic considerations. Nature-based solutions such as eelgrass reintroduction or beach nourishment should be tailored to the values, perspectives, and perceptions of the local communities to help ensure their continued contribution to biodiversity.</p>

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Data for article: Mapping temporal variations in ecosystem services: a case study of European wood supply and demand between 2008 and 2018

<p>The data consists of the indicators for spatio-temporal analysis of wood Ecosystem Service (ES) potential, supply, and demand across Europe between 2008 and 2018. This dataset was used for the analysis of temporal trends of wood ES in the study "Mapping temporal variations in ecosystem services: a case study of European wood supply and demand between 2008 and 2018".</p> <p>The data are collected and compiled from open access statistical databases. They consist of three parts:</p> <p>1. &nbsp; &nbsp; The PDF file with a detailed description of the data and all the input sources from which it was derived.</p> <p>2. &nbsp; &nbsp; The Zip file with 3 separate Excel files containing the short description of the indicators for mapping spatio-temporal changes, namely wood ES potential, wood ES supply and wood ES demand and their values between 2008 and 2018 at three different levels: continental, national and regional. Note that for the regional level only supply and demand indicators are available.</p> <p>3. &nbsp; &nbsp; The tiff file representing the spatial resolution for visualisation and analysis of the data.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Resolution:</p> <p>Data are available for 3 spatial levels, in the temporal dimension between 2008 and 2018 (annually). All 3 indicators are available at continental (European) and national scales. The study area covers 24 countries of the European Union (EU) and Switzerland. Supply and demand are also available at regional level. At the regional scale, we assessed supply and demand using the nomenclature of territorial units for statistics (NUTS 3; n = 1061) and local administrative units (LAU; n = 957) from the year 2016 (<a href="https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/gisco/geodata/reference-data/administrative-units-statistical-units.">Eurostat, 2016</a>).&nbsp;The visualisation of the resolution is available in the tiff file attached to the data.</p> <p>The data are visualised and analysed in the ETRS 1989 LAEA projection.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>For more information on the indicators used, data collection and processing, see the supplementary files of the published article.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>DEFINITIONS of ES mapping indicators used in the study: </strong></p> <p><em>ES potential</em> - the hypothetical maximum yield of services potentially available for supply.</p> <p><em>ES supply</em> &ndash; the amount of the mobilized service within the ecosystem capable to provide a service at a given location in a certain time (frequently referred in literature as ES flow).</p> <p><em>ES demand </em>- the need for the ecosystem-based service by the end users. In this study demand is analysed from the perspective of service end-user.</p>

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Data from: Forest carbon sink in the U.S. (1870–2012) driven by substitution of forest ecosystem service flows

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Fig. 4 in Preliminary Biophysical Assessment Of Forest Ecosystem Services: Two Model Area Examples

Fig. 4. Ecosystem class: mediation of noise impacts, indicator: Estimated noise reduction.

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Data from: Quantifying coextinctions and ecosystem service vulnerability in coastal ecosystems experiencing climate warming

<p>Climate change is negatively impacting ecosystems and their contributions to human well-being, known as ecosystem services. Previous research has mainly focused on the direct effects of climate change on species and ecosystem services, leaving a gap in understanding the indirect impacts resulting from changes in species interactions within complex ecosystems. This knowledge gap is significant because the loss of a species in a food web can lead to additional species losses or "co-extinctions," particularly when the species most impacted by climate change are also the species that play critical roles in food web persistence or provide ecosystem services. Here, we present a framework to investigate the relationships among species vulnerability to climate change, their roles within the food web, their contributions to ecosystem services, and the overall persistence of these systems and services in the face of climate-induced species losses. To do this, we assess the robustness of food webs and their associated ecosystem services to climate-driven species extinctions in eight empirical rocky intertidal food webs. Across food webs, we find that highly connected species are not the most vulnerable to climate change. However, we find species that directly provide ecosystem services are more vulnerable to climate change and more connected than species that do not directly provide services, which results in ecosystem service provision collapsing before food webs. Overall, we find that food webs are more robust to climate change than the ecosystem services they provide and show that combining species roles in food webs and services with their vulnerability to climate change offer predictions about the impacts of coextinctions for future food web and ecosystem service persistence. However, these conclusions are limited by data availability and quality, underscoring the need for more comprehensive data collection on linking species roles in interaction networks and their vulnerabilities to climate change.</p>

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Effect size data for the meta-analysis article ""Effects of vegetation management intensity on biodiversity and ecosystem services in vineyards: a meta-analysis"

<p>This Exel file includes the effect size dataset used for the statistical analysis for the paper &quot;Effect of vegetation management intensity on biodiversity and ecosystem services in vineyards: a meta-analysis&quot;, which will be published in the Journal of Applied Ecology in 2018.</p> <p>This meta-analysis was conducted in the course of the project VineDivers (<a href="http://www.vinedivers.eu/">www.vinedivers.eu</a>) funded through the 2013-2014 BiodivERsA/FACCE-JPI joint call for research proposals, with the national funders: Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Spanish Ministry for Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO), French National Research Agency (ANR), Romanian Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding (UEFISCDI) and Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF/Germany). P. Bat&aacute;ry&nbsp;was supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG BA4438/2-1) and by the Economic Development and Innovation Operational Programme of Hungary (GINOP&ndash;2.3.2&ndash;15&ndash;2016&ndash;00019).</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>

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Data for : Social equity shapes zone-selection: Balancing aquatic biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services delivery in the transboundary Danube River Basin

<p>Freshwater biodiversity is declining, despite national and international efforts to manage and protect <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sciences/freshwater-ecosystem">freshwater ecosystems</a>. Ecosystem-based management (EBM) has been proposed as an approach that could more efficiently and adaptively <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sciences/ecological-balance">balance ecological</a> and societal needs. However, this raises the question of how social and ecological objectives can be included in an <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sciences/integrated-management">integrated management</a> plan. Here, we present a generic model-coupling framework tailored to address this question for freshwater ecosystems, using three components: biodiversity, ecosystem services (ESS), and a spatial prioritisation that aims to balance the spatial representation of biodiversity and <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sciences/evolutionarily-stable-strategy">ESS</a> supply and demand. We illustrate this model-coupling approach within the Danube River Basin using the spatially explicit, potential distribution of (i) 85 fish species as a surrogate for biodiversity as modelled using hierarchical Bayesian models, and (ii) four estimated ESS layers produced by the <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sciences/artificial-intelligence">Artificial Intelligence</a> for Ecosystem Services (ARIES) platform (with ESS supply defined as <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sciences/carbon-sequestration">carbon storage</a> and flood regulation, and demand specified as recreation and water use). These are then used for (iii) a joint spatial prioritisation of biodiversity and ESS employing Marxan with Zones, laying out the spatial representation of multiple management zones. Given the transboundary setting of the Danube River Basin, we also run comparative analyses including the country-level <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sciences/purchasing-power-parity">purchasing power parity</a> (PPP)-adjusted gross domestic product (GDP) and each country&#39;s percent cover of the total basin area as potential cost factors, illustrating a scheme for balancing the share of establishing specific zones among countries. We demonstrate how emphasizing various biodiversity or ESS targets in an EBM model-coupling framework can be used to cost-effectively test various spatially explicit management options across a multi-national case study. We further discuss possible limitations, future developments, and requirements for effectively managing a balance between biodiversity and ESS supply and demand in freshwater ecosystems.</p>

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Data and R code associated to the publication: "Effects of land use, cover and protection on stream and riparian ecosystem services and biodiversity"

<p>This R code and dataset accompany Hanna et al&#39;s 2019 publication in Conservation Biology titled &quot;Effects of land use, cover and protection on stream and riparian ecosystem services and biodiversity&quot;. Read the &quot;Metadata&quot; tab of the data file and code annotations for more information.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

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International Brain Laboratory public data

The International Brain Laboratory public data releases expose standardized mouse decision-making experiments, including Neuropixels recordings, widefield calcium imaging, behavior, and session metadata accessed through the ONE API.

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