#Theory, Modelling & Upscaling #Ecosystem function of biodiversity #BEF #Soil Ecology #Remote Sensing, Lanscape and Modelling #Social-Ecology #2023 – 2026 #2020 – 2023 #Land use #Spatial diversity #Landscape structure #Ecosystem services #Synthesis #Multifunctionality #Forest structure

BEF-Up II (Contributing project)

Upscaling exploratories data to understand the drivers of landscape multifunctionality

Cost-neutral extension 2023-2024

Picture: The aerial photograph shows green overgrown and harvested brown fields next to a piece of forest and a settlement.

Background

A major challenge in biodiversity-ecosystem functioning (BEF) research is to upscale biodiversity-functioning relationships to the landscape scale and demonstrate the role of biodiversity in driving the supply of multiple ecosystem services (landscape multifunctionality). In the BEF-Up project of the last exploratories phase, we related the biodiversity and ecosystem services of grasslands to both within-plot management and the biodiversity and landscape properties of the surrounding areas. The knowledge gained is now being used to upscale grassland ecosystem services to the landscape level. Meanwhile, in the social science SoCuDES project, we are collecting data on stakeholder ecosystem service preferences.

Hypotheses

In BEF-Up II we will extend the approach of BEF-Up to forests and croplands, and use this information to build a GIS-based model of ecosystem service supply (WPs1&2). We will produce maps of ecosystem service supply for most major ecosystem services of the three regions. These will then be combined with the SoCuDES data on ecosystem service demand to generate measures of landscape level ecosystem service multifunctionality. Changes to stakeholder demands, land management, and biodiversity will then be simulated in the GIS model to assess how these changes would affect the supply of a wide range of ecosystem services (WP3).

Goals

This work will advance biodiversity-ecosystem function research and the Biodiversity Exploratories project by linking the detailed plot measures of the exploratories to the wider social-ecological system. BEF-Up2 is a significant gain for the overall Biodiversity Exploratories project, as it aims to place its results in a broader societal context.

Publications

Identifying the optimal landscape configuration for landscape multifunctionality

Boesing A. L., Klaus V. H., Neyret M., Le Provost G., Peter S., Fischer M., Manning P. (2024): Identifying the optimal landscape configuration for landscape multifunctionality. Ecosystem Services 67: 101630. doi: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2024.101630

The supply of multiple ecosystem services requires biodiversity across spatial scales

Le Provost G., Schenk N. V., Penone C., Thiele J., Westphal C., Allan E., Ayasse M., Binkenstein J., Blüthgen N., Boeddinghaus R., Boesing A. L., Bolliger R., Busch V., Fischer M., Frank K., Gossner M. M., Hoelzel N., Jung K., Kandeler E., Klaus V. H., Kleinebecker T., Klötzing T., Leimer S., Marhan S., Morris K., Müller S., Neff F., Neyret M., Oelmann Y., Perović D., Prati D., Rillig M. C., Saiz H., Schäfer D., Schäfer M., Scherer-Lorenzen M., Schloter M., Schöning I., Schrumpf M., Steckel J., , Steffan-Dewenter I., Stempfhuber B., Trumbore S., Tschapka M., Vogt J., Weiner C., Weisser W. W., Wells K., Werner M., Wilcke W., Manning P. (2023): The supply of multiple ecosystem services requires biodiversity across spatial scales. Nature, Ecology & Evolution 7, 236–249. doi: 10.1038/s41559-022-01918-5

Landscape management strategies for multifunctionality and social equity

Neyret M., Peter S., Le Provost G., Boch S., Boesing A. L., Bullock J., Hölzel N., Klaus V. K., Kleinebecker T., Krauss J., Müller J., Müller S., Ammer C., Buscot F., Ehbrecht M., Fischer M., Goldmann K., Jung K., Mehring M., Müller T., Renner S. C., Schall P., Scherer-Lorenzen M., Westphal C., Wubet T., Manning P. (2023): Landscape management strategies for multifunctionality and social equity. Nature Sustainability 6, 391–403. doi: 10.1038/s41893-022-01045-w

Managing German forests for both carbon storage and biodiversity conservation

Bewirtschaftung deutscher Wälder zur Speicherung von Kohlenstoff und zur Erhaltung der Artenvielfalt

Springer K. (2022): Managing German forests for both carbon storage and biodiversity conservation. Bachelor thesis, TH Bingen & Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung

Socio-cultural dynamics of Ecosystem Services – An integrative perspective on the society-nature relationship

Soziokulturelle Dynamiken von Ökosystemleistungen - Eine integrative Perspektive auf die Beziehung zwischen Gesellschaft und Natur

Peter S. (2022): Socio-cultural dynamics of Ecosystem Services - An integrative perspective on the society-nature relationship. Dissertation, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main