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Wang C, Liu X, Wu J, Qiao W, Liu Y. Planning a water-constrained ecological restoration pattern to enhance sustainable landscape management in drylands. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT 2023; 335:117514. [PMID: 36841000 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.117514] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2023] [Revised: 02/06/2023] [Accepted: 02/11/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
Abstract
Ecological restoration is an important approach to improving landscape sustainability. However, ecological restoration in drylands is strongly limited by water resources. Therefore, a technical route for ecological restoration in drylands that creates sustainable landscapes based on those water constraints is needed. In this study, we develop a spatially explicit framework named "Constraint-Pattern-Benefit" to plan ecological restoration patterns in Inner Mongolia, China. Based on a prediction of the ecosystem service (ES) increase under limited evapotranspiration as a water constraint, we constructed 5 landscape sustainability-related strategies with 100 ecological restoration scenarios, which considered fragmentation of restoration locations, distance to city, water consumption, and the allocation scale to determine the spatial arrangement of ecological restoration. Results show that the ES increase potential of ecological restoration under water constraints is distributed in the center of Inner Mongolia. The multi-objective scenario simultaneously achieves 59.1% water yield, 74.2% soil conservation, 57.2% sand fixation, and 52.8% carbon sequestration with 50% restored landscape. Considering the indicators of fragmentation, water consumption, and distance to city decreases the restored landscape fragmentation from 0.44 to 0.26, improves the restoration efficiency by 14.41%, and increases the beneficiary population by 35.5%, respectively. Small-scale allocation can further increase the ES realization efficiency, which is on average 4.8% higher at the city scale than at the provincial scale. Moreover, this approach focuses on the sustainable effect of the spatial arrangement on dryland landscapes at different scales, which provides methodological support for improving the sustainability of drylands.
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- Chenxu Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Xinjiekouwai Street No. 19, Beijing 100875, China.
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- Inner Mongolia Institute of Geological Survey, Hohhot 010020, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Xinjiekouwai Street No. 19, Beijing 100875, China.
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- Inner Mongolia Institute of Geological Survey, Hohhot 010020, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Xinjiekouwai Street No. 19, Beijing 100875, China.
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Cooke SJ, Frempong‐Manso A, Piczak ML, Karathanou E, Clavijo C, Ajagbe SO, Akeredolu E, Strauch AM, Piccolo J. A freshwater perspective on the United Nations decade for ecosystem restoration. CONSERVATION SCIENCE AND PRACTICE 2022. [DOI: 10.1111/csp2.12787] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
Affiliation(s)
- Steven J. Cooke
- Department of Biology and Institute of Environmental and Interdisciplinary Science Carleton University Ottawa Ontario Canada
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- Department of Biology and Institute of Environmental and Interdisciplinary Science Carleton University Ottawa Ontario Canada
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- Department of Biology and Institute of Environmental and Interdisciplinary Science Carleton University Ottawa Ontario Canada
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- Biology Department Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Thessaloniki Greece
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- Department of Wildlife and Ecotourism Department Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria Ibadan Nigeria
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- Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management University of Hawai‘i Honolulu Hawaii USA
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- Department of Environmental and Life Sciences, River Ecology and Management Research Group RivEM Karlstad University Karlstad Sweden
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Wells HBM, Porensky LM, Veblen KE, Riginos C, Stringer LC, Dougill AJ, Namoni M, Ekadeli J, Young TP. At high stocking rates, cattle do not functionally replace wild herbivores in shaping understory community composition. ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS : A PUBLICATION OF THE ECOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 2022; 32:e2520. [PMID: 34918420 DOI: 10.1002/eap.2520] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2021] [Revised: 07/09/2021] [Accepted: 09/09/2021] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
Abstract
Over a quarter of the world's land surface is grazed by cattle and other livestock, which are replacing wild herbivores, potentially impairing ecosystem structure, and functions. Previous research suggests that cattle at moderate stocking rates can functionally replace wild herbivores in shaping understory communities. However, it is uncertain whether this is also true under high stocking rates and the effects of wild herbivore on plant communities are moderate, enhanced, or simply additive to the effects of cattle at high stocking rates. To evaluate the influence of cattle stocking rates on the ability of cattle to functionally replace wild herbivores and test for interactive effects between cattle and wild herbivores in shaping understory vegetation, we assessed herbaceous vegetation in a long-term exclosure experiment in a semi-arid savanna in central Kenya that selectively excludes wild mesoherbivores (50-1000 kg) and megaherbivores (elephant and giraffe). We tested the effects of cattle stocking rate (zero/moderate/high) on herbaceous vegetation (diversity, composition, leafiness). We also tested how those effects depend on the presence of wild mesoherbivores and megaherbivores. We found that herbaceous community composition (primary ordination axis) was better explained by the presence/absence of herbivore types than by total herbivory, suggesting that herbivore identity is a more important determinant of community composition than total herbivory at high cattle stocking rates. The combination of wild mesoherbivores and cattle stocked at high rates led to increased bare ground and annual grass cover, reduced perennial grass cover and understory leafiness, and enhanced understory diversity. These shifts were weaker or absent when cattle were stocked at high stocking rates in the absence of wild mesoherbivores. Megaherbivores tempered the effects of cattle stocked at high rates on herbaceous community composition but amplified the effects of high cattle stocking rate on bare ground and understory diversity. Our results show that cattle at high stocking rates do not functionally replace wild herbivores in shaping savanna herbaceous communities contrary to previous findings at moderate stocking rates. In mixed-use rangelands, interactions between cattle stocking rate and wild herbivore presence can lead to non-additive vegetation responses with important implications for both wildlife conservation and livestock production.
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- Harry B M Wells
- Sustainability Research Institute, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
- Lolldaiga Hills Research Programme, Nanyuki, Kenya
- Space for Giants, Nanyuki, Kenya
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- Mpala Research Centre, Nanyuki, Kenya
- USDA-ARS Rangeland Resources Research Unit, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
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- Mpala Research Centre, Nanyuki, Kenya
- Department of Wildland Resources and Ecology Center, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, USA
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- Mpala Research Centre, Nanyuki, Kenya
- The Nature Conservancy, Lander, Wyoming, USA
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- Sustainability Research Institute, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
- Department of Environment and Geography, University of York, York, UK
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- Sustainability Research Institute, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
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- Mpala Research Centre, Nanyuki, Kenya
- Department of Plant Sciences and Ecology Graduate Group, University of California, Davis, California, USA
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Elias M, Kandel M, Mansourian S, Meinzen‐Dick R, Crossland M, Joshi D, Kariuki J, Lee LC, McElwee P, Sen A, Sigman E, Singh R, Adamczyk EM, Addoah T, Agaba G, Alare RS, Anderson W, Arulingam I, Bellis SGḴV, Birner R, De Silva S, Dubois M, Duraisami M, Featherstone M, Gallant B, Hakhu A, Irvine R, Kiura E, Magaju C, McDougall C, McNeill GD, Nagendra H, Nghi TH, Okamoto DK, Paez Valencia AM, Pagella T, Pontier O, Post M, Saunders GW, Schreckenberg K, Shelar K, Sinclair F, Gautam RS, Spindel NB, Unnikrishnan H, Wilson GTGNN, Winowiecki L. Ten people‐centered rules for socially sustainable ecosystem restoration. Restor Ecol 2021. [DOI: 10.1111/rec.13574] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Marlène Elias
- Multifunctional Landscapes Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT Via di San Domenico, 1, 00153 Rome Italy
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- School of Geography and Environmental Sciences University of Southampton Building 44, University Road Southampton SO17 1BJ U.K
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- Mansourian.org University of Geneva 24 Rue du Général‐Dufour, 1211 Genève 4 Switzerland
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- Environment and Production Technology Division International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) 1201 I Street NW, Washington DC 20005 U.S.A
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- World Agroforestry (ICRAF) United Nations Avenue, Gigiri, PO Box 30677, Nairobi 00100 Kenya
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- International Water Management Institute (IWMI) 127 Sunil Mawatha, Battaramulla 10120 Sri Lanka
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- Social and Institutional Change in Agricultural Development University of Hohenheim Institut 490c, 70599 Stuttgart Germany
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- Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve, National Marine Conservation Area Reserve, and Haida Heritage Site Skidegate British Columbia V0T 1S1 Canada
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- Department of Human Ecology Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 55 Dudley Road, New Brunswick NJ 08901‐8520 U.S.A
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- Department of Humanities and Social Sciences Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, IIT Kharagpur Kharagpur India
- Azim Premji University Bangalore India
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- Jackson Institute for Global Affairs Yale University 55 Hillhouse Avenue, New Haven CT 06520 U.S.A
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- World Resources Institute India LGF, AADI 2 Balbir Saxena Marg, Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110016 India
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- Department of Zoology and Biodiversity Research Centre University of British Columbia 4200‐6270 University Boulevard, Vancouver British Columbia V6T 1Z4 Canada
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- Department of Humanities, Political and Social Sciences ETH Zurich Haldeneggsteig 4, 8006 Zürich Switzerland
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- School of Geography and Environmental Sciences University of Southampton Building 44, University Road Southampton SO17 1BJ U.K
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- Department of Environmental Science C.K. Tedam University of Technology and Applied Sciences PO Box 24, Navrongo Ghana
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- Global Restoration Initiative World Resources Institute 10 G Street NE, Suite 800, Washington DC 20002 U.S.A
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- International Water Management Institute (IWMI) 127 Sunil Mawatha, Battaramulla 10120 Sri Lanka
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- Social and Institutional Change in Agricultural Development University of Hohenheim Institut 490c, 70599 Stuttgart Germany
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- International Water Management Institute (IWMI) 127 Sunil Mawatha, Battaramulla 10120 Sri Lanka
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- Resilient Small Scale Fisheries Program, CGIAR Research Program on Fish Agri‐Food Systems (FISH) WorldFish West Gyogone, Bayint Naung Road, Insein Township, Yangon 11181 Myanmar
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- World Resources Institute India LGF, AADI 2 Balbir Saxena Marg, Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110016 India
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- Pacific Urchin Harvesters Association 12740 Trites Road, Richmond British Columbia V7E 3R8 Canada
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- International Water Management Institute (IWMI) 127 Sunil Mawatha, Battaramulla 10120 Sri Lanka
- Water, Land and Ecosystems IWMI‐Tata Water Policy Program, “Jal Tarang” Near Smruti Apartment, Behind IRMA Gate, Mangalpura, Anand 388001, Gujarat India
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- International Water Management Institute (IWMI) 127 Sunil Mawatha, Battaramulla 10120 Sri Lanka
- Water, Land and Ecosystems IWMI‐Tata Water Policy Program, “Jal Tarang” Near Smruti Apartment, Behind IRMA Gate, Mangalpura, Anand 388001, Gujarat India
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- Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve, National Marine Conservation Area Reserve, and Haida Heritage Site Skidegate British Columbia V0T 1S1 Canada
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- World Agroforestry (ICRAF) United Nations Avenue, Gigiri, PO Box 30677, Nairobi 00100 Kenya
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- World Agroforestry (ICRAF) United Nations Avenue, Gigiri, PO Box 30677, Nairobi 00100 Kenya
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- Gender Research Theme, CGIAR Research Program on Fish Agri‐Food Systems (FISH) WorldFish Jalan Batu Maung, Batu Maung, 11960 Bayan Lepas, Pulau Pinang Malaysia
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- School of Development Azim Premji University Survey No 66, Burugunte Village, Bikkanahalli Main Road, Sarjapura, Bangalore India
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- Tropenbos Việt Nam 149 Tran Phu Street, Phuoc Vinh, Hue, 49000 Thua Thien Hue Vietnam
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- Department of Biological Science Florida State University 319 Stadium Dr, Tallahassee FL 32304 U.S.A
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- School of Natural Sciences Bangor University Bangor, Gwynedd LL57 2DG U.K
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- Nearshore Science Hakai Institute 303‐1100 Island Hwy, Campbell River British Columbia Canada
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- Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve, National Marine Conservation Area Reserve, and Haida Heritage Site Skidegate British Columbia V0T 1S1 Canada
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- Centre for Environmental and Molecular Algal Research, Department of Biology University of New Brunswick PO Box 4400, Fredericton New Brunswick E3B 5A3 Canada
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- Geography Department King's College London 40 Bush House (North East Wing), Aldwych, London WC2B 4BG U.K
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- Center for Policy Design Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment Royal Enclave, Sriramapura, Jakkur Post, Bangalore 560 064 Karnataka India
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- World Agroforestry (ICRAF) United Nations Avenue, Gigiri, PO Box 30677, Nairobi 00100 Kenya
- School of Natural Sciences Bangor University Bangor, Gwynedd LL57 2DG U.K
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- Institute of Livelihood Research and Training 3rd Floor, Surabhi Arcade, Troop Bazar, Bank Street, Koti, Hyderabad, Telangana 500001 India
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- Department of Biological Science Florida State University 319 Stadium Dr, Tallahassee FL 32304 U.S.A
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- Azim Premji University Bangalore India
- Urban Institute The University of Sheffield 219 Portobello, Sheffield S1 4DP U.K
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- World Agroforestry (ICRAF) United Nations Avenue, Gigiri, PO Box 30677, Nairobi 00100 Kenya
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