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Li L, Ning Y, Cao Z, Xue K, Song C. A national-scale assessment on the spatial and temporal variations in water color for urban lakes in China. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2024; 945:173951. [PMID: 38897480 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.173951] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2024] [Revised: 05/13/2024] [Accepted: 06/10/2024] [Indexed: 06/21/2024]
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Monitoring the variations of lake water quality is essential for urban water security and sustainable eco-environment health. However, it is challenging to investigate the water quality of urban lakes at large scales due to the need for large-amount in situ data with diverse optical properties for developing the remote sensing inversion algorithms. Forel-Ule Index (FUI), a proxy of quantifying water color, whose calculation does not require in situ data of specific properties, can comprehensively reflect water quality conditions. However, the spatial and temporal distribution of water color in Chinese urban lakes is still poorly understood. To fill this research gap, this study investigated the spatial distribution of water color in 523 urban lakes (area > 0.5 km2) in China using the FUI derived from the high-quality Multi-Spectral Instrument (MSI) data onboard Sentinel-2 during the ice-free period (April-October) from 2019 to 2022. The monthly and seasonal variation patterns of water color in urban lakes were also analyzed. Our results show that green domain is the most common color of urban lakes, with about 86 % of urban lakes in China being green, and non-green lakes accounting for only 14 % of the total number of lakes. The monthly variation of FUI in urban lakes across the country and multiple geographic regions is basically the same. The monthly average FUI first increases, then decreases, and then rebounds. We also found that the seasonal variation of water color in most urban lakes in southern and northern China is opposite. This study helps to comprehensively understand the spatial and temporal variation of water color and quality of urban lakes in China, providing key basic information for the protection and governance of urban lakes.
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- Linsen Li
- Key Laboratory of Lake and Watershed Science for Water Security, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
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- College of Geography and Tourism, Chongqing Normal University, Chongqing 400700, China
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- Key Laboratory of Lake and Watershed Science for Water Security, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
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- Key Laboratory of Lake and Watershed Science for Water Security, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
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- Key Laboratory of Lake and Watershed Science for Water Security, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing (UCASNJ), Nanjing 211135, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China; Poyang Lake Wetland Research Station, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Jiujiang 332899, China.
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Li B, Wan R, Yang G, Yang S, Dong L, Cui J, Zhang T. Centennial loss of lake wetlands in the Yangtze Plain, China: Impacts of land use changes accompanied by hydrological connectivity loss. WATER RESEARCH 2024; 256:121578. [PMID: 38608622 DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2024.121578] [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: 09/10/2023] [Revised: 04/02/2024] [Accepted: 04/05/2024] [Indexed: 04/14/2024]
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Humans have played a fundamental role in altering lake wetland ecosystems, necessitating the use of diverse data types to accurately quantify long-term changes, identify potential drivers, and establish a baseline status. We complied high-resolution historical topographic maps and Landsat imagery to assess the dynamics of the lake wetlands in the Yangtze Plain over the past century, with special attention to land use and hydrological connectivity changes. Results showed an overall loss of 45.6 % (∼11,859.5 km2) of the lake wetlands over the past century. The number of lakes larger than 10 km2 decreased from 149 to 100 due to lake dispersion, vanishing, and shrinkage. The extent of lake wetland loss was 3.8 times larger during the 1930s-1970s than that in the 1970s-1990s. Thereafter, the lake wetland area remained relatively stable, and a net increase was observed during the 2010s-2020s in the Yangtze Plain. The significant loss of lake wetland was predominately driven by agricultural activities and urban land expansion, accounting for 81.1 % and 4.9 % of the total losses, respectively. In addition, the changes in longitudinal and lateral hydrological connectivity further exacerbated the lake wetland changes across the Yangtze Plain through isolation between lakes and the Yangtze River and within the lakes. A total of 130 lakes have been isolated from the Yangtze River due to the construction of sluices and dykes throughout the Yangtze Plain, resulting in the decrease in the proportion of floodplain marsh from 28.3 % in the 1930s to 8.0 % in the 2020s. Furthermore, over 260 sub-lakes larger than 1 km2 (with a total area of 1276.4 km2) are experiencing a loss of connectivity with their parent lakes currently. This study could provide an improved historical baseline of lake wetland changes to guide the conservation planning to wetland protection and prioritization area in the Yangtze Plain.
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- Bing Li
- Key Laboratory of Watershed Geographic Sciences, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, PR China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, PR China; College of Nanjing, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 211135, PR China; Poyang Lake Wetland Research Station, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Jiujiang 332899, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Watershed Geographic Sciences, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, PR China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, PR China; College of Nanjing, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 211135, PR China; Poyang Lake Wetland Research Station, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Jiujiang 332899, PR China.
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- Key Laboratory of Watershed Geographic Sciences, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, PR China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, PR China; College of Nanjing, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 211135, PR China.
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- Key Laboratory of Watershed Geographic Sciences, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, PR China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, PR China; College of Nanjing, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 211135, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Watershed Geographic Sciences, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, PR China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, PR China; College of Nanjing, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 211135, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Watershed Geographic Sciences, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Watershed Geographic Sciences, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, PR China
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Lahens L, Cabana H, Huot Y, Segura PA. Trace organic contaminants in lake waters: Occurrence and environmental risk assessment at the national scale in Canada. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION (BARKING, ESSEX : 1987) 2024; 347:123764. [PMID: 38490528 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2024.123764] [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: 01/26/2024] [Revised: 03/06/2024] [Accepted: 03/09/2024] [Indexed: 03/17/2024]
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Numerous contaminants are produced and used daily, a significant fraction ultimately finding their way into natural waters. However, data on their distribution in lakes is lacking. To address this gap, the presence of 54 trace organic contaminants (TrOCs), representative of various human activities, was investigated in the surface water of 290 lakes across Canada. These lakes ranged from remote to highly impacted by human activities. In 88% of the sampled lakes, contaminants were detected, with up to 28 detections in a single lake. The compounds most frequently encountered were atrazine, cotinine, and deethylatrazine, each of which was present in more than a third of the lakes. The range of detected concentrations was from 0.23 ng/L to about 2200 ng/L for individual compounds, while the maximum cumulative concentration exceeded 8100 ng/L in a single lake. A risk assessment based on effect concentrations for three aquatic species (Pimephales promelas, Daphnia magna, and Tetrahymena pyriformis) was conducted, revealing that 6% of lakes exhibited a high potential risk for at least one species. In 59% of lakes, some contaminants with potential sub-lethal effects were detected, with the detection of up to 17 TrOCs with potential impacts. The results of this work provide the first reference point for monitoring the evolution of contamination in Canadian lakes by TrOCs. They demonstrate that a high proportion of the sampled lakes bear an environmentally relevant anthropogenic chemical footprint.
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- Lisa Lahens
- Department of Chemistry, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada; Groupe de Recherche sur l'Eau de l'Université de Sherbrooke (GREAUS, Université de Sherbrooke Water Research Group), Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada
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- Groupe de Recherche sur l'Eau de l'Université de Sherbrooke (GREAUS, Université de Sherbrooke Water Research Group), Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada; Department of Civil and Building Engineering, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada
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- Department of Applied Geomatics, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada; Groupe de Recherche sur l'Eau de l'Université de Sherbrooke (GREAUS, Université de Sherbrooke Water Research Group), Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada.
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Wang Z, Shang Y, Li Z, Song K. Analysis of taiga and tundra lake browning trends from 2002 to 2021 using MODIS data. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT 2024; 356:120576. [PMID: 38513585 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.120576] [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: 05/08/2023] [Revised: 09/22/2023] [Accepted: 03/09/2024] [Indexed: 03/23/2024]
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Lakes in taiga and tundra regions may be silently undergoing changes due to global warming. One of those changes is browning in lake color. The browning interacts with the carbon cycle, ecosystem dynamics, and water quality in freshwater systems. However, spatiotemporal variabilities of browning in these regions have not been well documented. Using MODIS remote sensing reflectance at near ultraviolet wavelengths from 2002 to 2021 on the Google Earth Engine platform, we quantified long-term browning trends across 7616 lakes (larger than 10 km2) in taiga and tundra biomes. These lakes showed an overall decreased trend in browning (Theil-Sen Slope = 0.00015), with ∼36% of these lakes showing browning trends, and ∼1% of these lakes showing statistically significant (p-value <0.05) browning trends. The browning trends more likely occurred in small lakes in high latitude, low ground ice content regions, where air temperature increased and precipitation decreased. While temperature is projected to increase in response to climate change, our results provide one means to understand how biogeochemical cycles and ecological dynamics respond to climate change.
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- Zijin Wang
- Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, 130102, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, 130102, China; State Key Laboratory of Black Soils Conservation and Utilization, China
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- Division of Natural and Applied Sciences, Duke Kunshan University, Suzhou, 215316, China
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- Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, 130102, China; State Key Laboratory of Black Soils Conservation and Utilization, China; School of Environment and Planning, Liaocheng University, Liaocheng, 252000, China.
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Wang Y, Ma B, Shen S, Zhang Y, Ye C, Jiang H, Li S. Diel variability of carbon dioxide concentrations and emissions in a largest urban lake, Central China: Insights from continuous measurements. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2024; 912:168987. [PMID: 38040357 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.168987] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2023] [Revised: 11/19/2023] [Accepted: 11/27/2023] [Indexed: 12/03/2023]
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Accurately quantifying the carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from lakes, especially in urban areas, remains challenging due to constrained temporal resolution in field monitoring. Current lake CO2 flux estimates primarily rely on daylight measurements, yet nighttime emissions is normally overlooked. In this study, a non-dispersive infrared CO2 sensor was applied to measure dissolved CO2 concentrations over a 24-h period in a largest urban lake (Tangxun Lake) in Wuhan City, Central China, yielding extensive data on diel variability of CO2 concentrations and emissions. We showed the practicality and efficiency of the sensor for real-time continuous measurements in lakes. Our findings revealed distinct diurnal variations in CO2 concentrations (Day: 38.58 ± 23.8 μmol L-1; Night: 42.01 ± 20.2 μmol L-1) and fluxes (Day: 7.68 ± 10.34 mmol m-2 d-1; Night: 9.68 ± 9.19 mmol m-2 d-1) in the Tangxun Lake. The balance of photosynthesis and respiration is of utmost importance in modulating diurnal CO2 dynamics and can be influenced by nutrient loadings and temperature. A diel variability correction factor of 1.14 was proposed, suggesting that daytime-only measurements could underestimate CO2 emissions in urban lakes. Our data suggested that samplings between 11:00 and 12:00 could better represent the average diel CO2 fluxes. This study offered valuable insights on the diel variability of CO2 fluxes, emphasizing the importance of in situ continuous measurements to accurately quantify CO2 emissions, facilitating selections of sampling strategies and formulation of management strategies for urban lakes.
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- Yang Wang
- School of Environmental Ecology and Biological Engineering, Institute of Changjiang Water Environment and Ecological Security, Hubei Key Laboratory of Novel Reactor and Green Chemical Technology, Wuhan Institute of Technology, Wuhan 430205, China
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- School of Environmental Ecology and Biological Engineering, Institute of Changjiang Water Environment and Ecological Security, Hubei Key Laboratory of Novel Reactor and Green Chemical Technology, Wuhan Institute of Technology, Wuhan 430205, China
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- School of Environmental Ecology and Biological Engineering, Institute of Changjiang Water Environment and Ecological Security, Hubei Key Laboratory of Novel Reactor and Green Chemical Technology, Wuhan Institute of Technology, Wuhan 430205, China
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- School of Environmental Ecology and Biological Engineering, Institute of Changjiang Water Environment and Ecological Security, Hubei Key Laboratory of Novel Reactor and Green Chemical Technology, Wuhan Institute of Technology, Wuhan 430205, China
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- Key Laboratory of Aquatic Botany and Watershed Ecology, Wuhan Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, China; Danjiangkou Wetland Ecosystem Field Scientific Observation and Research Station, the Chinese Academy of Sciences & Hubei Province, Wuhan 430074, China
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- Key Laboratory of Aquatic Botany and Watershed Ecology, Wuhan Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, China; Danjiangkou Wetland Ecosystem Field Scientific Observation and Research Station, the Chinese Academy of Sciences & Hubei Province, Wuhan 430074, China
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- School of Environmental Ecology and Biological Engineering, Institute of Changjiang Water Environment and Ecological Security, Hubei Key Laboratory of Novel Reactor and Green Chemical Technology, Wuhan Institute of Technology, Wuhan 430205, China.
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Li X, Tsigaris P. The global value of freshwater lakes. Ecol Lett 2024; 27:e14388. [PMID: 38400825 DOI: 10.1111/ele.14388] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2023] [Revised: 02/07/2024] [Accepted: 02/08/2024] [Indexed: 02/26/2024]
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Lakes face threats from human activities like unsustainable development, population growth and industrial technologies. These challenges impact the ecosystem services of lakes. Research has assessed the monetary value of services from freshwater biomes annually. This article reviews these values, estimating lakes' global ecosystem services to be within the region of USD 1.3-5.1 trillion annually. Their natural asset value is estimated at USD 87-340 trillion, comparable to the monetary value of global real estate, assuming a relatively high social discount rate to account for future increased standards of living. Considering environmental degradation, future generations may experience a lower living standard. Using a 0.1% discount rate, recognizing potential harm and aligning with indigenous values raises the lakes' value to USD 1300-5100 trillion, which is at least equal to the global monetary value of wealth created. This valuation is shared by all as a collective asset, unlike the skewed distribution of created wealth.
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- Xingming Li
- Department of Economics, Bob Gaglardi School of Business and Economics, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
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- Department of Economics, Bob Gaglardi School of Business and Economics, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
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Lewis ASL, Lau MP, Jane SF, Rose KC, Be'eri-Shlevin Y, Burnet SH, Clayer F, Feuchtmayr H, Grossart HP, Howard DW, Mariash H, Delgado Martin J, North RL, Oleksy I, Pilla RM, Smagula AP, Sommaruga R, Steiner SE, Verburg P, Wain D, Weyhenmeyer GA, Carey CC. Anoxia begets anoxia: A positive feedback to the deoxygenation of temperate lakes. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY 2024; 30:e17046. [PMID: 38273535 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.17046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2023] [Revised: 11/01/2023] [Accepted: 11/05/2023] [Indexed: 01/27/2024]
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Declining oxygen concentrations in the deep waters of lakes worldwide pose a pressing environmental and societal challenge. Existing theory suggests that low deep-water dissolved oxygen (DO) concentrations could trigger a positive feedback through which anoxia (i.e., very low DO) during a given summer begets increasingly severe occurrences of anoxia in following summers. Specifically, anoxic conditions can promote nutrient release from sediments, thereby stimulating phytoplankton growth, and subsequent phytoplankton decomposition can fuel heterotrophic respiration, resulting in increased spatial extent and duration of anoxia. However, while the individual relationships in this feedback are well established, to our knowledge, there has not been a systematic analysis within or across lakes that simultaneously demonstrates all of the mechanisms necessary to produce a positive feedback that reinforces anoxia. Here, we compiled data from 656 widespread temperate lakes and reservoirs to analyze the proposed anoxia begets anoxia feedback. Lakes in the dataset span a broad range of surface area (1-126,909 ha), maximum depth (6-370 m), and morphometry, with a median time-series duration of 30 years at each lake. Using linear mixed models, we found support for each of the positive feedback relationships between anoxia, phosphorus concentrations, chlorophyll a concentrations, and oxygen demand across the 656-lake dataset. Likewise, we found further support for these relationships by analyzing time-series data from individual lakes. Our results indicate that the strength of these feedback relationships may vary with lake-specific characteristics: For example, we found that surface phosphorus concentrations were more positively associated with chlorophyll a in high-phosphorus lakes, and oxygen demand had a stronger influence on the extent of anoxia in deep lakes. Taken together, these results support the existence of a positive feedback that could magnify the effects of climate change and other anthropogenic pressures driving the development of anoxia in lakes around the world.
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- Abigail S L Lewis
- Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA
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- Interdisciplinary Environmental Research Centre, Technical University of Mining and Resources Freiberg, Freiberg, Germany
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- Department of Natural Resources and the Environment and Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, USA
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- The Kinneret Limnological Laboratory, Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research, Migdal, Israel
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- Department of Fish and Wildlife Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, USA
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- Department of Plankton and Microbial Ecology, Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), Stechlin, Germany
- Department of Biochemistry and Biology, Potsdam University, Potsdam, Germany
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA
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- Prince Albert National Park, Parks Canada, Saskatchewan, Canada
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- School of Natural Resources, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri, USA
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- Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA
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- Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
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- New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services, Concord, New Hampshire, USA
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- Department of Ecology, Universität Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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- New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services, Concord, New Hampshire, USA
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- National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Wellington, New Zealand
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- Department of Ecology and Genetics/Limnology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA
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Zheng H, Wu T, Ouyang Z, Polasky S, Ruckelshaus M, Wang L, Xiao Y, Gao X, Li C, Daily GC. Gross ecosystem product (GEP): Quantifying nature for environmental and economic policy innovation. AMBIO 2023; 52:1952-1967. [PMID: 37943417 PMCID: PMC10654296 DOI: 10.1007/s13280-023-01948-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2023] [Revised: 07/17/2023] [Accepted: 09/27/2023] [Indexed: 11/10/2023]
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The large-scale loss of ecosystem assets around the world, and the resultant reduction in the provision of nature's benefits to people, underscores the urgent need for better metrics of ecological performance as well as their integration into decision-making. Gross ecosystem product (GEP) is a measure of the aggregate monetary value of final ecosystem-related goods and services in a specific area and for a given accounting period. GEP accounting captures the use of many ecosystem services in production processes across the economy, which are then valued in terms of their benefits to society. GEP has five key elements that make it transparent, trackable, and readily understandable: (1) a focus on nature's contributions to people; (2) the measurement of ecosystem assets as stocks and ecosystem services as flows; (3) the quantification of ecosystem service use; (4) an understanding of ecosystem service supply chains through value realization; and (5) the disaggregation of benefits across groups. Correspondingly, a series of innovative policies based on GEP have been designed and implemented in China. The theoretical and practical lessons provided by these experiences can support continued policy innovation for green and inclusive development around the world.
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- Hua Zheng
- State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 18 Shuangqing Road, Haidian District, Beijing, 100085, China.
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China.
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- Natural Capital Project, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 18 Shuangqing Road, Haidian District, Beijing, 100085, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota, 1994 Buford Avenue, St. Paul, MN, 55108, USA
- Natural Capital Project, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, 55108, USA
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- Natural Capital Project, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 18 Shuangqing Road, Haidian District, Beijing, 100085, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 18 Shuangqing Road, Haidian District, Beijing, 100085, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 18 Shuangqing Road, Haidian District, Beijing, 100085, China
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- School of Economics and Finance, Xi'an Jiaotong University, No.74 West Yanta Road, Yanta District, Xi'an, 710061, China
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- Natural Capital Project, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
- Department of Biological Sciences and Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
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Wang S, Zhang P, Zhang D, Chang J. Evaluation and comparison of the benthic and microbial indices of biotic integrity for urban lakes based on environmental DNA and its management implications. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT 2023; 341:118026. [PMID: 37192593 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.118026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2022] [Revised: 04/17/2023] [Accepted: 04/24/2023] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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With the intensification of human disturbance in urban lakes, the loss of eukaryotic biodiversity (macroinvertebrates, etc.) reduces the accuracy of the index of biotic integrity (IBI) assessment. Therefore, how to accurately evaluate the ecological status of urban lakes based on IBI has become an important issue. In this study, 17 sampling sites from four lakes in Wuhan City, China were selected to analyze the composition and diversity characteristics of benthic and microbial communities and their relationship with environmental factors based on eDNA high-throughput sequencing, and compare the application effects of the benthic index of biotic integrity (B-IBI) and the microbial index of biotic integrity (M-IBI). Canonical correspondence analysis showed that the key environmental factors affecting benthic family/genus composition were temperature, conductivity, total phosphorus (TP), and total nitrogen (TN). Redundancy analysis showed that pH, TP, conductivity, and ammonia nitrogen had the greatest impact on microbial phyla/genera. After screening, four and six core metrics were determined from candidate parameters to establish B-IBI and M-IBI. The B-IBI evaluation results showed that healthy, sub-heathy, and poor accounted for 58.8%, 35.3%, and 5.9%, respectively, in the sites. The results of the M-IBI evaluation showed that 29.4% of the sites were healthy, 47.1% were sub-healthy, and 23.5% were common. M-IBI was positively correlated with water quality (r = 0.74, P < 0.001), whereas B-IBI was not. Further results showed that M-IBI was negatively correlated with the relative abundance of bloom-forming cyanobacteria Planktothrix (r = -0.54, P < 0.05). Therefore, M-IBI is more sensitive than B-IBI and can better reflect the actual water pollution status. This study can provide a new perspective for ecological assessment and management of urban lakes strongly disturbed by human activities.
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- Siyang Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Water Resources Engineering and Management, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, 430072, P.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Water Resources Engineering and Management, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, 430072, P.R. China; Hubei Key Laboratory of Water System Science for Sponge City Construction(Wuhan University), Wuhan, 430072, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Water Resources Engineering and Management, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, 430072, P.R. China; Institute for Ecological Research and Pollution Control of Plateau Lakes, School of Ecology and Environmental Science, Yunnan University, Kunming, 650500, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Water Resources Engineering and Management, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, 430072, P.R. China; Hubei Key Laboratory of Water System Science for Sponge City Construction(Wuhan University), Wuhan, 430072, China
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Wang Q, Li Y, Liu L, Cui S, Liu X, Chen F, Jeppesen E. Human impact on current environmental state in Chinese lakes. J Environ Sci (China) 2023; 126:297-307. [PMID: 36503758 DOI: 10.1016/j.jes.2022.05.031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2022] [Revised: 05/20/2022] [Accepted: 05/20/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Anthropogenic and natural disturbance to inland aquatic ecosystems displays a notable spatial difference, yet data to measure these differences are scarce. This study encompasses 217 lakes distributed over five lake regions of China and elucidates the environmental factors determining the spatial variability of the water quality and trophic status. A significant correlation between human modification index in surrounding terrestrial systems (HMT) and trophic status of lake ecosystems (TSI) was found, and the regression slope in each region was similar except in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau region. It was further noted that the pattern of environmental factor network (EF network) differed among freshwater and saline lakes. The EF network was complex for freshwater lakes in less human-influenced areas, but intensive man-made influence disrupted most relationships except for those between total nitrogen, total phosphorus, chlorophyll-a, and water turbidity. As for regions including saline lakes, correlations among water salinity and organic forms of carbon and nitrogen were apparent. Our results suggest that HMT and EF network can be useful indicators of the ecological integrity of local lake ecosystems, and integrating spatial information on a large scale provides conservation planners the option for evaluating the potential risk on inland aquatic systems.
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- Qianhong Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China; Sino-Danish Centre for Education and Research (SDC), Beijing 100049, China.
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- Sino-Danish Centre for Education and Research (SDC), Beijing 100049, China; Department of Ecoscience, Aarhus University, Silkeborg 8600, Denmark; Limnology Laboratory, Department of Biological Sciences and Centre for Ecosystem Research and Implementation, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey; Institute of Marine Sciences, Middle East Technical University, Mersin, Turkey
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Grammatikopoulou I, Badura T, Johnston RJ, Barton DN, Ferrini S, Schaafsma M, La Notte A. Value transfer in ecosystem accounting applications. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT 2023; 326:116784. [PMID: 36450189 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.116784] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2022] [Revised: 10/31/2022] [Accepted: 11/11/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Ecosystem accounting is a statistical framework that aims to track the state of ecosystems and ecosystem services, with periodic updates. This framework follows the statistical standard of the System of Environmental Economic Accounting Ecosystem Accounting (SEEA EA). SEEA EA is composed of physical ecosystem extent, condition and ecosystem service supply-use accounts and monetary ecosystem service and asset accounts. This paper focuses on the potential use of the "Value Transfer" (VT) valuation method to produce the monetary ecosystem service accounts, taking advantage of experience with rigorous benefit transfer methods that have been developed and tested over many years in environmental economics. Although benefit transfer methods have been developed primarily for welfare analysis, the underlying techniques and advantages are directly applicable to monetary exchange values required for ecosystem accounting. The compilation of regular accounts is about to become a key area of work for the National Statistical Offices worldwide as well as for the EU Member States in particular, due to the anticipated amendment to regulation on European environmental economic accounts introducing ecosystem accounts. On this basis, accounting practitioners have voiced their concerns in a global consultation during SEEA EA revision, about three issues in particular: the lack of resources, the need for guidelines and the challenge of periodically updating the accounts. We argue that VT can facilitate empirical applications that assess ecosystem services in monetary terms, especially at national scales and in situations with limited expertise and resources available. VT is a low-cost valuation approach in line with SEEA EA requirements able to provide periodic, rigorous and consistent estimates for use in accounts. While some methodological challenges remain, it is likely that VT can help to implement SEEA EA at scale and in time to respond to the pressing need to incorporate nature into mainstream decision-making processes.
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- I Grammatikopoulou
- European Commission, Joint Research Center (JRC), Directorate for Sustainable Resources, Land Resources Unit, Via E. Fermi 2749, I-21027 Ispra, VA, Italy.
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- Global Change Research Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic; Department of Environmental Economics, Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), VU Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- George Perkins Marsh Institute and Department of Economics, Clark University, United States
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- Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA), Norway
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- Center for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE), School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom; Department of Political and International Sciences, University of Siena, Siena, Italy
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- Department of Environmental Economics, Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), VU Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; School of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
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- European Commission, Joint Research Center (JRC), Directorate for Sustainable Resources, Land Resources Unit, Via E. Fermi 2749, I-21027 Ispra, VA, Italy
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Liu WY, Lee DR, Wang SYS, Yu HW. Assessing the ecological loss of mining areas in Taiwan. ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT 2023; 195:288. [PMID: 36627398 DOI: 10.1007/s10661-022-10780-8] [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: 09/04/2022] [Accepted: 11/24/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Mines are mostly located in the mountains and national forestlands in Taiwan. The development and use of mines have severely damaged the environment. Despite the long history of mining, the value of forest ecological services lost during mining operations have not yet been incorporated into the expenses borne by miners, and miners are not liable for compensation for ecological damage. This study evaluated the forest ecosystem service benefits lost since mining began, with the aim of providing future reference for calculating ecological damage related to mining. We investigated Mount Taibai mines in Yilan (northeast Taiwan) and Mount Yongshi mines in Hualian (east Taiwan), which are richly forested areas. According to Article 13 of the Mining Act in Taiwan, mining rights have a limitation of 20 years, and the two mines in this study have been in operation for 20 years. By using four ecological services-forest production, carbon sequestration, water resource replenishment, and forest recreation-we estimated the loss of ecological values in both mining regions. The result indicated that the loss of total forest production benefits over 20 years was 7,498.6 k New Taiwanese dollars (NTD) in Mount Taibai mines and 6,543.1 k NTD for Mount Yongshi mines, while the loss for the total carbon sequestration benefits over 20 years was 19,950 k NTD in Mount Taibai mines and 17,400 k NTD in Mount Yongshi mines. The loss of value for the total water conservation benefits over 20 years was 11,160 k NTD in Mount Taibai mines and 5,070 k NTD in Mount Yongshi mines. The loss value of forest recreation over 20 years was 1,443,855 k NTD for the two mines.
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- Wan-Yu Liu
- Department of Forestry, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, 402, Taiwan.
- Innovation and Development Center of Sustainable Agriculture, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, 402, Taiwan.
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- Department of Forestry, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, 402, Taiwan
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- Department of Plants, Soils and Climate, Utah State University, Logan, UT, 84322, USA
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- Department of Forestry, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, 402, Taiwan
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Exley G, Page T, Thackeray SJ, Folkard AM, Couture RM, Hernandez RR, Cagle AE, Salk KR, Clous L, Whittaker P, Chipps M, Armstrong A. Floating solar panels on reservoirs impact phytoplankton populations: A modelling experiment. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT 2022; 324:116410. [PMID: 36352716 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.116410] [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: 04/06/2022] [Revised: 09/19/2022] [Accepted: 09/27/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Floating solar photovoltaic (FPV) deployments are increasing globally as the switch to renewable energy intensifies, representing a considerable water surface transformation. FPV installations can potentially impact aquatic ecosystem function, either positively or negatively. However, these impacts are poorly resolved given the challenges of collecting empirical data for field or modelling experiments. In particular, there is limited evidence on the response of phytoplankton to changes in water body thermal dynamics and light climate with FPV. Given the importance of understanding phytoplankton biomass and species composition for managing ecosystem services, we use an uncertainty estimation approach to simulate the effect of FPV coverage and array siting location on a UK reservoir. FPV coverage was modified in 10% increments from a baseline with 0% coverage to 100% coverage for three different FPV array siting locations based on reservoir circulation patterns. Results showed that FPV coverage significantly impacted thermal properties, resulting in highly variable impacts on phytoplankton biomass and species composition. The impacts on phytoplankton were often dependent on array siting location as well as surface coverage. Changes to phytoplankton species composition were offset by the decrease in phytoplankton biomass associated with increasing FPV coverage. We identified that similar phytoplankton biomass reductions could be achieved with less FPV coverage by deploying the FPV array on the water body's faster-flowing area than the central or slower flowing areas. The difference in response dependent on siting location could be used to tailor phytoplankton management in water bodies. Simulation of water body-FPV interactions efficiently using an uncertainty approach is an essential tool to rapidly develop understanding and ultimately inform FPV developers and water body managers looking to minimise negative impacts and maximise co-benefits.
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- Giles Exley
- Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YQ, United Kingdom.
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- Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YQ, United Kingdom
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- Lake Ecosystems Group, UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Lancaster Environment Centre, Bailrigg, Lancaster, LA1 4AP, United Kingdom
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- Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YQ, United Kingdom
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- Department of Chemistry and Center for Northern Studies (CEN), Takuvik Joint International Laboratory, Université Laval, Quebec, Canada
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- Department of Land, Air and Water Resources, UC Davis, Davis, CA, USA; Wild Energy Initiative, John Muir Institute of the Environment, UC Davis, California, USA
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- Department of Land, Air and Water Resources, UC Davis, Davis, CA, USA; Wild Energy Initiative, John Muir Institute of the Environment, UC Davis, California, USA
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- JBA Consulting, 1 Broughton Park, Skipton, BD23 3FD, United Kingdom
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- JBA Consulting, 1 Broughton Park, Skipton, BD23 3FD, United Kingdom
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- Thames Water Research, Development and Innovation, Kempton Park AWTW, Feltham Hill Road, Hanworth, TW13 6XH, United Kingdom
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- Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YQ, United Kingdom; Energy Lancaster, Science & Technology Building, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YF, United Kingdom
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Song C, Jiang X, Fan C, Li L. High-resolution circa-2020 map of urban lakes in China. Sci Data 2022; 9:747. [PMID: 36463239 PMCID: PMC9719502 DOI: 10.1038/s41597-022-01874-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2022] [Accepted: 11/24/2022] [Indexed: 12/07/2022] Open
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Urban lakes provide important ecological services to local communities, such as flood mitigation, biodiversity, and recreation. With rapid urbanization, urban lakes are significantly affected by socio-economic development and urgently need attention. Yet there is still a lack of datasets that include tiny urban lakes on a global or national scale. This study aims to produce a high-resolution circa-2020 map of urban lakes (≥0.001 km2) in China. The 10-m-resolution Sentinel-2 imagery and a simple but robust water extraction method was used to generate waterbodies. The accuracy of this national-scale dataset was evaluated by comparing it with manually sampled urban units, with the average accuracy of 81.85% in area and 93.35% in count. The database totally inventories 1.11 × 106 urban lakes in China, with a net area of ~2.13 × 103 km2. Overall, the spatial distribution of urban lakes in China showed strongly heterogeneous characteristics. This dataset will enhance our understanding of the distribution pattern of China's urban lakes and contribute to better ecological and environmental management as well as sustainable urban development planning.
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- Chunqiao Song
- Key Laboratory of Watershed Geographic Sciences, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, 210008, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Watershed Geographic Sciences, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, 210008, China.
- Changwang School of Honors, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing, 210044, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Watershed Geographic Sciences, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, 210008, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- Key Laboratory of Watershed Geographic Sciences, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, 210008, China
- College of Surveying and Land Information Engineering, Henan Polytechnic University, Jiaozuo, 454000, China
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Inácio M, Gomes E, Bogdzevič K, Kalinauskas M, Zhao W, Pereira P. Mapping and assessing coastal recreation cultural ecosystem services supply, flow, and demand in Lithuania. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT 2022; 323:116175. [PMID: 36088764 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.116175] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2022] [Revised: 08/23/2022] [Accepted: 09/01/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Coastal recreation as a cultural ecosystem service (CES) is key to human wellbeing. However, anthropogenic impacts at the coast affect CES supply. Mapping and assessing CES can help achieve better coastal planning and management of the coast. Quantitative approaches for assessing and mapping CES are lacking, especially in coastal areas. We develop three quantitative models to assess and map coastal recreation CES supply, flow, and demand. We applied the developed models in the coastal region of Lithuania. The coastal recreation CES supply model comprises natural (e.g., naturalness) and cultural (e.g., points of interest) components. The input variables were (1) analysed for multicollinearity, (2) normalised and (3) overlayed using ArcGIS 10.8. An online survey was undertaken to assess and map CES flow and demand based on locations chosen by respondents where they perform recreation at the coast and the number of activities performed when visiting the coast. The coastal recreation CES supply model results showed that natural recreation is close to the coastline, forest areas, waterlines, and protected areas, while cultural recreation is highest in coastal urban areas. The supply model was validated (r2 = 0.11) based on the respondents' chosen coastal locations for recreation. The low validation allowed us to identify the mismatch between model results and respondents' preferences occurring in Klaipėda urban area. When removing respondents' points in Klaipeda urban area, the model validation increased (r2 = 0.36). CES flow results highlighted Palanga, Šventoji, and Nida as the prime coastal recreation locations. The results of CES demand show that respondents living in municipalities near the coastline (Baltic Sea and Curonian Lagoon) perform fewer activities when visiting the coast. For other municipalities, a demand pattern was not observed. Our results yielded important spatial information that can be useful for planners and decision-makers in the context of coastal management.
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- Miguel Inácio
- Environmental Management Laboratory, Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius, Lithuania.
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- Environmental Management Laboratory, Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius, Lithuania; Centre for Geographical Studies, Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal; Associated Laboratory TERRA, Lithuania
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- Environmental Management Laboratory, Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius, Lithuania; Institute of International and European Union Law, Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius, Lithuania
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- Environmental Management Laboratory, Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius, Lithuania
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- State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China; Institute of Land Surface System and Sustainable Development, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
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- Environmental Management Laboratory, Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius, Lithuania
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Hao C, Wu S, Zhang W, Chen Y, Ren Y, Chen X, Wang H, Zhang L. A critical review of Gross ecosystem product accounting in China: Status quo, problems and future directions. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT 2022; 322:115995. [PMID: 36037591 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.115995] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2022] [Revised: 07/28/2022] [Accepted: 08/08/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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As a measure of ecosystems' contribution to human well-being, the concept of Gross Ecosystem Product (GEP) is an integrated monetary index for the evaluation of final ecosystem services, which has attracted widespread attention around the world. In China, both national and local governments have launched a series of GEP accounting pilot projects, with the aim to incorporate this new concept into real world decision-making. However, a critical review of these practices remains lacking, especially regarding their current status and problems. In this study, by performing a systematic review and data integration of current literature and government documents, we comprehensively described the GEP accounting practices in China, including pilot project's coverage, accounting methods, and policy application. Then, we identified five major problems in current GEP accounting practices in China, which prevent GEP from being accurately measured in the short term. We proposed that GEP accounting should be a constantly evolving process with both long-term and short-term improvement goals. More in detail, the accuracy issues in GEP accounting require longer periods of time to resolve; while its repeatability, comparability, and applicability should be improved in the short term, so that it can be incorporated into decision-making. In response to these challenges, we suggested the adaptation of GEP accounting index screening principles as a possible future direction, which can help to apply GEP results in the current stages of decision making. By improving GEP concept and accounting, it will be possible to establish a unified comparable GEP accounting system and reduce the gap between the GEP and decision-making.
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- Chaozhi Hao
- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shandong University, Qingdao, 266237, China; Center for Yellow River Ecosystem Products, Shandong University, Qingdao, 266237, China
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- Center for Yellow River Ecosystem Products, Shandong University, Qingdao, 266237, China; Qingdao Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, Shandong University, Qingdao, 266237, China.
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- Center for Yellow River Ecosystem Products, Shandong University, Qingdao, 266237, China; Qingdao Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, Shandong University, Qingdao, 266237, China
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- Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia
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- Center for Yellow River Ecosystem Products, Shandong University, Qingdao, 266237, China; School of Life Science, Shandong University, Qingdao, 266237, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shandong University, Qingdao, 266237, China; Center for Yellow River Ecosystem Products, Shandong University, Qingdao, 266237, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shandong University, Qingdao, 266237, China; Center for Yellow River Ecosystem Products, Shandong University, Qingdao, 266237, China
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- Center for Yellow River Ecosystem Products, Shandong University, Qingdao, 266237, China; Qingdao Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, Shandong University, Qingdao, 266237, China.
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Inácio M, Barceló D, Zhao W, Pereira P. Mapping lake ecosystem services: A systematic review. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2022; 847:157561. [PMID: 35878864 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.157561] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2022] [Revised: 07/18/2022] [Accepted: 07/18/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Lake ecosystems are essential for human wellbeing and development for their capacity to provide multiple ecosystem services (ES). However, because of an anthropogenic-driven ecologic degradation, the sustainable supply of lake ES is at risk. It is, therefore, necessary to restore lake ecosystems and their ES for the sustainable support of future generations. There is a lack of knowledge about mapping lakes ES at the global level. This study conducts a systematic literature review focused on mapping lake ES. Initially, 617 studies were identified. However, only 30 studies were considered. The 30 studies identified were published between 2015 and 2021. Most of them were conducted in Asia, followed by Europe and America. The selected works covered all three Common International Classification of ES sections (regulating and maintenance, provisioning and cultural). We identified a similar number of works carried out in all the sections. Most of the studies were performed at a regional scale and focused on ES supply. Methodologically, an equal number of works followed qualitative and quantitative approaches. In total, 13 different methods were identified. The most used were the ES value (ESV) and biophysical modelling. Less than half of the works that applied the ESV method mapped all the ES analysed. Among the studies assessed, most were focused on environmental and socio-economic aspects. Only 1 study attempted to validate the results. Overall, 16 studies assessed the drivers of change impacts on ES supply. Nevertheless, only 1 considered climate change. The other 15 only considered land-use changes. This systematic review showed that a small number of works focused on lake ES mapping. Although challenging, there is an urgent global need for studies in this domain.
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- Miguel Inácio
- Environmental Management Laboratory, Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania.
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- Catalan Institute for Water Research (ICRA-CERCA), Girona, Catalonia, Spain; Water and Soil Quality Research Group, Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research (IDAEA), Barcelona, Spain
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- State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China; Institute of Land Surface System and Sustainable Development, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
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- Environmental Management Laboratory, Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania
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Ge Y, Wu N, Abuduwaili J, Kulmatov R, Issanova G, Saparov G. Identifying Seasonal and Diurnal Variations and the Most Frequently Impacted Zone of Aerosols in the Aral Sea Region. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 2022; 19:14144. [PMID: 36361020 PMCID: PMC9657130 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph192114144] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2022] [Revised: 10/20/2022] [Accepted: 10/27/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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With the desiccation of the Aral Sea, salt-alkali dust storms have increased in frequency and the surrounding environment has deteriorated. In order to increase our understanding of the characteristics and potential impact zone of atmospheric aerosols in the Aral Sea region, we evaluated seasonal and diurnal variation of aerosols and identified the zone most frequently impacted by aerosols from the Aral Sea region using CALIPSO data and the HYSPLIT model. The results showed that polluted dust and dust were the two most commonly observed aerosol subtypes in the Aral Sea region with the two accounting for over 75% of observed aerosols. Occurrence frequencies of polluted dust, clean continental, polluted continental/smoke, and elevated smoke showed obvious seasonal and diurnal variations, while occurrence frequency of dust only showed obvious seasonal variation. Vertically, the occurrence frequencies of all aerosol subtypes except dust showed significant diurnal variation at all levels. The thickness of polluted dust layers and dust layers exhibited same seasonal and diurnal variations with a value of more than 1.0 km year-round, and the layer thickness of clean continental and polluted continental/smoke shared the same seasonal and diurnal variation features. The zone most severely impacted by aerosols from the Aral Sea region, covering an area of approximately 2 million km2, was mainly distributed in the vicinity of the Aral Sea region, including western Kazakhstan, and most of Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. The results provide direct support for positioning monitoring of aeolian dust deposition and human health protection in the Aral Sea region.
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- Yongxiao Ge
- State Key Laboratory of Desert and Oasis Ecology, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi 830011, China
- CAS Research Center for Ecology and Environment of Central Asia, Urumqi 830011, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Desert and Oasis Ecology, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi 830011, China
- CAS Research Center for Ecology and Environment of Central Asia, Urumqi 830011, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Desert and Oasis Ecology, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi 830011, China
- CAS Research Center for Ecology and Environment of Central Asia, Urumqi 830011, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Department of Biology, National University of Uzbekistan, Tashkent 100170, Uzbekistan
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- CAS Research Center for Ecology and Environment of Central Asia, Urumqi 830011, China
- Kazakh Research Institute of Soil Science and Agrochemistry Named after U.U.Uspanov, Almaty 050060, Kazakhstan
- Faculty of Geography and Environmental Sciences, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty 050040, Kazakhstan
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- CAS Research Center for Ecology and Environment of Central Asia, Urumqi 830011, China
- Kazakh Research Institute of Soil Science and Agrochemistry Named after U.U.Uspanov, Almaty 050060, Kazakhstan
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Mapping global lake dynamics reveals the emerging roles of small lakes. Nat Commun 2022; 13:5777. [PMID: 36182951 PMCID: PMC9526744 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-33239-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2021] [Accepted: 09/08/2022] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Lakes are important natural resources and carbon gas emitters and are undergoing rapid changes worldwide in response to climate change and human activities. A detailed global characterization of lakes and their long-term dynamics does not exist, which is however crucial for evaluating the associated impacts on water availability and carbon emissions. Here, we map 3.4 million lakes on a global scale, including their explicit maximum extents and probability-weighted area changes over the past four decades. From the beginning period (1984–1999) to the end (2010–2019), the lake area increased across all six continents analyzed, with a net change of +46,278 km2, and 56% of the expansion was attributed to reservoirs. Interestingly, although small lakes (<1 km2) accounted for just 15% of the global lake area, they dominated the variability in total lake size in half of the global inland lake regions. The identified lake area increase over time led to higher lacustrine carbon emissions, mostly attributed to small lakes. Our findings illustrate the emerging roles of small lakes in regulating not only local inland water variability, but also the global trends of surface water extent and carbon emissions. Lakes are essential components of the hydrological and biogeochemical cycles. Here, Pi et al develop a global lake dataset called GLAKES via high-resolution satellite images and deep learning to examine global lake changes over four decades.
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Schirpke U, Ebner M. Exposure to global change pressures and potential impacts on ecosystem services of mountain lakes in the European Alps. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT 2022; 318:115606. [PMID: 35777157 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.115606] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2022] [Revised: 06/01/2022] [Accepted: 06/20/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Mountain lakes are increasingly affected by global change pressures. While there is growing evidence of impacts on ecosystem functioning, few studies considered changes in ecosystem services (ES). This study aimed (1) to examine the exposure of small and natural mountain lakes in the European Alps to global change pressures and (2) to estimate potential impacts on six relevant ES considering future climate projections and potential changes in water use. For 2455 lakes, we mapped the level of exposure to global change pressures, including climate change, atmospheric nutrient deposition, and anthropogenic activities (e.g., water use). Our results indicate that more than half of the Alpine mountain lakes feature a considerable level of exposure to global change. Hotspot analysis revealed spatial clusters of lakes with above-average exposure (23.7% of all lakes), mostly located in the central part of the Alps, while lakes with below-average exposure level prevailed in the south-western (19.3%) and eastern parts (10.6%). For 15 case study lakes, we quantified potential impacts on six key ES. The results revealed, in particular, potential negative effects on maintaining habitat and populations as well as aesthetic value, but contrastingly, also some positive effects for outdoor recreation, research and education. Our findings suggest the need for a comprehensive integration of mountain lakes into current management and policy frameworks to ensure the ecological integrity and ES provision of mountain lakes. Interdisciplinary mountain lake research will be important to overcome uncertainties related to the coupling of limnological parameters and ES indicators.
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- Uta Schirpke
- Department of Ecology, University of Innsbruck, Sternwartestrasse 15, 6020, Innsbruck, Austria; Institute for Alpine Environment, Eurac Research, Viale Druso 1, 39100, Bozen, Bolzano, Italy.
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- Department of Ecology, University of Innsbruck, Sternwartestrasse 15, 6020, Innsbruck, Austria; Institute for Alpine Environment, Eurac Research, Viale Druso 1, 39100, Bozen, Bolzano, Italy
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Lehner B, Messager ML, Korver MC, Linke S. Global hydro-environmental lake characteristics at high spatial resolution. Sci Data 2022. [PMCID: PMC9226168 DOI: 10.1038/s41597-022-01425-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Here we introduce the LakeATLAS dataset, which provides a broad range of hydro-environmental characteristics for more than 1.4 million lakes and reservoirs globally with an area of at least 10 ha. LakeATLAS forms part of the larger HydroATLAS data repository and expands the existing datasets of sub-basin and river reach descriptors by adding equivalent information for lakes and reservoirs in a compatible structure. Matching its HydroATLAS counterparts, version 1.0 of LakeATLAS contains data for 56 variables, partitioned into 281 individual attributes and organized in six categories: hydrology; physiography; climate; land cover & use; soils & geology; and anthropogenic influences. LakeATLAS derives these attributes by processing and reformatting original data from well-established global digital maps at 15 arc-second (~500 m) grid cell resolution and assigns the information spatially to each lake by aggregating it within the lake, in a 3-km vicinity buffer around the lake, and/or within the entire upstream drainage area of the lake. The standardized format of LakeATLAS ensures versatile applicability in hydro-ecological assessments from regional to global scales. Measurement(s) | hydro-environmental characteristics • lake • water body • hydrographic feature | Technology Type(s) | digital curation | Sample Characteristic - Environment | freshwater environment • aquatic environment | Sample Characteristic - Location | Earth (planet) |
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Brouwer R, Pinto R, Dugstad A, Navrud S. The economic value of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest ecosystem services: A meta-analysis of the Brazilian literature. PLoS One 2022; 17:e0268425. [PMID: 35588116 PMCID: PMC9119521 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0268425] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2021] [Accepted: 04/30/2022] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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The main objective of this study is to assess the economic value of the Brazilian Amazon’s ecosystem services accruing to Brazilians based on a meta-analysis of the Brazilian valuation literature. Insight in these local values provides an important benchmark to demonstrate the importance of preserving the Brazilian Amazon forest. The review covers almost 30 years of Brazilian valuation research on the Amazon, published predominantly in Portuguese, highlighting a high degree of study and data heterogeneity. The estimated mean value of the provision of habitat for species, carbon sequestration, water regulation, recreation and ecotourism to local populations is about 410 USD/ha/year. The standard deviation is however high, reflecting a wide dispersion in the distribution of values. Between 50 and 70 percent of the variation in these values can be explained with the help of the estimated meta-regression models, resulting in considerable prediction errors when applying a within-sample resampling procedure. These findings demonstrate the need for a more robust, common ecosystem services accounting and valuation framework before these values can be scaled up and aggregated across the entire Brazilian Amazon.
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- Roy Brouwer
- Department of Economics and the Water Institute, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada
- Institute for Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Ecohydrology Research Group, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada
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- School of Economics and Business, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway
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- School of Economics and Business, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway
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Li B, Yang G, Wan R, Lai X, Wagner PD. Impacts of hydrological alteration on ecosystem services changes of a large river-connected lake (Poyang Lake), China. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT 2022; 310:114750. [PMID: 35189555 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.114750] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2021] [Revised: 01/04/2022] [Accepted: 02/15/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Large lakes provide various types of ecosystem services (ESs), of which stocks and variations induced by hydrological alterations are largely unquantified. The present study investigates the long-term changes of five key ESs (i.e., flood regulation, water supply, fish production, nutrient retention and biodiversity conservation) in a large river connected lake (Poyang Lake), with special attention to impacts of hydrological alteration induced by the Three Gorges Dam (TGD). Hydrological data series, hydrodynamic model, the nutrient balance, fishery statistics, and wetland winter waterbird survey data from 1980 to 2016 were employed. Results showed that Poyang Lake provide significant ESs, with long-term average flood regulation, water supply and nutrient retention services of 167.7 × 108 m3, 31.53 × 108 m3, and 15.12% of total phosphorus load, respectively. The fish production service ranged from 1.74 × 104t to 7.19 × 104t, with an average value of 3.12 × 104t. All five key ESs exhibited a downward trend since the 2000s, especially for water supply, fish production and nutrient retention services (p < 0.05), which might be largely attributed to the hydrological condition changes induced by TGD operation. Nevertheless, more detailed monitoring data and biophysical models are required to further acknowledge the changes in biodiversity conservation and fish production services and their linkages with the TGD. The present study sheds light on long-term ES changes in large lakes and their possible linkages with human influences through hydropower projects.
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- Bing Li
- Key Laboratory of Watershed Geographic Sciences, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, 210008, PR China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, PR China; School of Resources, Environment and Earth Sciences, College of Nanjing, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, 211135, P.R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Watershed Geographic Sciences, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, 210008, PR China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, PR China; School of Resources, Environment and Earth Sciences, College of Nanjing, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, 211135, P.R. China.
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- Key Laboratory of Watershed Geographic Sciences, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, 210008, PR China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, PR China; School of Resources, Environment and Earth Sciences, College of Nanjing, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, 211135, P.R. China.
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- Key Laboratory of Watershed Geographic Sciences, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, 210008, PR China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, PR China; School of Resources, Environment and Earth Sciences, College of Nanjing, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, 211135, P.R. China
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- Department of Hydrology and Water Resources Management, Institute for Natural Resource Conservation, Kiel University, D-24118, Kiel, Germany
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Sheergojri IA, Rashid I, Rehman IU, Rashid I. Invasive species services-disservices conundrum: A case study from Kashmir Himalaya. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT 2022; 309:114674. [PMID: 35182979 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.114674] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2021] [Revised: 01/27/2022] [Accepted: 02/02/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Invasive species and their management represent a multi-faceted issue affecting social and natural systems. People see the advantages and risks of these species through various value structures, which influences decisions on whether and where they can be managed. While many studies have focused on the ecological effects of invasive species, their impact on human livelihoods and well-being is less recognized. Understanding the effects (benefits and costs) of invasive species on livelihoods and human well-being, as well as people's perception, is important for guiding policy formulation and devising management strategies. Here we present a case study of Dal Lake - a freshwater urban lake of Kashmir Himalaya - providing various ecological, biological, and hydrological functions that offer economic, aesthetic, recreational, educational, and other values to the local populace. In the context of a gradually increasing attention on the impacts of Invasive Alien Plant species (IAPs) on this ecosystem, we conducted Focal Group Discussions (FGDs) to determine the perception of people living inside and around Dal Lake regarding two invasive species, namely, Nymphea mexicana and Hydrocharis dubia, and their capacity to provide ecosystem services (ES) and disservices (EDS). Following that, a discursive scenario assessment tool multi-criteria mapping (MCM) was used to involve stakeholders in ranking their priorities in two scenarios of the lake- 'status quo' vs 'clean lake with limited weeds' in the Dal Lake social-ecological system. We found that their perception of the impact of invasive species varies with factors such as the location of invasive plants in the lake, and people's occupation, and household characteristics. Most participants perceive these species positively (i.e., agreeing that they create ecosystem services in the form of cattle feed), but some recognize their importance in providing ecosystem disservices. Their primary concern and priority were the sustenance of their livelihood in any scenario, and most respondents did not oppose the eradication of two IAPs if their livelihood is secure. We conclude that a more nuanced strategy to IAS management is required, one that combines both local livelihood demands and broader environmental and social considerations.
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- Department of Botany, University of Kashmir, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, 190006, India.
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- Department of Botany, University of Kashmir, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, 190006, India
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- Department of Geoinformatics, University of Kashmir, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, 190006, India
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Reconstruction of Ecological Transitions in a Temperate Shallow Lake of the Middle Yangtze River Basin in the Last Century. WATER 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/w14071136] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/10/2022]
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Exogenous drivers may cause a gradual and reversible change in a lake equilibrium, or they may force it over a threshold to a persistent alternative stable state, described as a regime shift in the ecosystem. In the mid-and-lower Yangtze River Basin (MLYB), major environmental problems in shallow lakes have been eutrophication and abrupt algal blooms under anthropogenic disturbances for the recent century. Much value is therefore placed on understanding the changes in shallow-lake ecosystems that characteristically precede changes in the state of the lake. Here, we describe a case study of the paleolimnological signature in diatom assemblages of various types of regime shifts caused by historically documented anthropogenic drivers in a temperate shallow lake: Taibai Lake. We evaluate the effectiveness of paleolimnological data as a surrogate for long-term monitoring. Algorithms using sequential t and F statistics detected breakpoints in the time series of diatom assemblages, in 1994–1996, 1974–1977, 1952–1956, and 1931–1934, respectively. The regression statistics suggest that the hydrodynamic–ecosystem and aquacultural–ecosystem relationships fit better in the breakpoint regression model, and the relationship between nutrient loading and ecosystem state suits the linear model. Feedback loops help reconstruct dynamic changes in Taibai influenced by major stressors. Our study exemplifies the value of system approaches to identifying regime shifts and their possible causes in shallow lakes from paleolimnological records. The case study of Taibai set an example of reconstructing the ecological regime shifts in shallow lakes in the MLYB and understanding the state changes in lake ecosystems, which will benefit effective lake management.
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Li G, Chen W, Zhang X, Yang Z, Bi P, Wang Z. Ecosystem Service Values in the Dongting Lake Eco-Economic Zone and the Synergistic Impact of Its Driving Factors. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 2022; 19:3121. [PMID: 35270812 PMCID: PMC8910509 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph19053121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2022] [Revised: 02/28/2022] [Accepted: 03/01/2022] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Ecosystem service values (ESVs) are crucial to ecological conservation and restoration, urban and rural planning, and sustainable development of land. Therefore, it is important to study ESVs and their driving factors in the Dongting Lake Eco-Economic Zone (Dongting Lake). This paper quantifies the changes in ESVs in the Dongting Lake using land use data from 2000, 2005, 2010 and 2018. The eXtreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) model is used to study the effects of individual driving factors and the synergistic effects of these driving factors on ESVs. Our analysis suggests that: (1) From 2000 to 2018, the largest dynamic degree values in the Dongting Lake are in unused land types, followed by construction lands and wetlands. The ESVs of the Dongting Lake show an increasing trend, with those of forestlands being the highest, accounting for approximately 44.65% of the total value. Among the ESVs functions, water containment, waste treatment, soil formation and protection, biodiversity conservation and climate regulation contribute the most to ESVs, with a combined contribution of 76.64% to 76.99%; (2) The integrated intensity of anthropogenic disturbance shows a U-shaped spatial distribution, decreasing from U1 to U3. The driving factors in descending order of importance are the human impact index, total primary productivity (GPP), slope, elevation, population, temperature, gross domestic product, precipitation and PM2.5; (3) When the GPP is low (GPP < 900), the SHAP (SHapley Additive exPlanation) value of the high human impact index is greater than zero, indicating that an increase in GPP increases the ESVs in the Dongting Lake. This study can provide technical support and a theoretical basis for ecological environmental protection and ecosystem management in the Dongting Lake.
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- Guangchao Li
- College of Geoscience and Surveying Engineering, China University of Mining & Technology, Beijing 100083, China; (G.L.); (X.Z.); (P.B.); (Z.W.)
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- College of Geoscience and Surveying Engineering, China University of Mining & Technology, Beijing 100083, China; (G.L.); (X.Z.); (P.B.); (Z.W.)
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- College of Geoscience and Surveying Engineering, China University of Mining & Technology, Beijing 100083, China; (G.L.); (X.Z.); (P.B.); (Z.W.)
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- College of Information Science and Engineering, Henan University of Technology, Zhengzhou 450001, China;
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- College of Geoscience and Surveying Engineering, China University of Mining & Technology, Beijing 100083, China; (G.L.); (X.Z.); (P.B.); (Z.W.)
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- College of Geoscience and Surveying Engineering, China University of Mining & Technology, Beijing 100083, China; (G.L.); (X.Z.); (P.B.); (Z.W.)
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Du X, Song D, Ming K, Yang J, Jin X, Wang H, Liu H, Wang L, Zhao C, Huo T. Functional Responses of Phytoplankton Assemblages to Watershed Land Use and Environmental Gradients. Front Ecol Evol 2022. [DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2021.819252] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Watershed land-use changes have been identified as major threats to lake fauna, subsequently affecting ecosystem functioning. In this study, the functional-based approach was used to examine the effects of land use and environmental changes on phytoplankton communities in four selected lakes in Northeast China. We also identified the sensitive functional traits as indicators of environmental stressors. The integration of RLQ analysis with the fourth-corner approach significantly identified five of 18 functional trait categories, including flagella, filamentous, unicellular, mixotrophic, and chlorophyll c, as potential indicators to changes in watershed land-use intensity and environmental gradients. Significant relationships between traits and land use and water quality highlighted the consequential indirect impact of extensive agricultural and urban development on phytoplankton via allochthonous nutrient inputs and various contaminants. In addition, the functional richness of phytoplankton assemblages generally increased along with surface area and forests, but decreased along with intensive agricultural and urban land use, implying that functional homogenization may cause a reduction in ecosystem productivity and reliability to land-use intensity. Given the superior performance of the functional-based approach, our findings also highlighted the importance of the application of both the biological traits and functional diversity index in monitoring programs for lake ecosystems.
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Vári Á, Podschun SA, Erős T, Hein T, Pataki B, Iojă IC, Adamescu CM, Gerhardt A, Gruber T, Dedić A, Ćirić M, Gavrilović B, Báldi A. Freshwater systems and ecosystem services: Challenges and chances for cross-fertilization of disciplines. AMBIO 2022; 51:135-151. [PMID: 33983559 PMCID: PMC8651970 DOI: 10.1007/s13280-021-01556-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2021] [Revised: 03/12/2021] [Accepted: 03/14/2021] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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Freshwater ecosystems are among the most threatened in the world, while providing numerous essential ecosystem services (ES) to humans. Despite their importance, research on freshwater ecosystem services is limited. Here, we examine how freshwater studies could help to advance ES research and vice versa. We summarize major knowledge gaps and suggest solutions focusing on science and policy in Europe. We found several features that are unique to freshwater ecosystems, but often disregarded in ES assessments. Insufficient transfer of knowledge towards stakeholders is also problematic. Knowledge transfer and implementation seems to be less effective towards South-east Europe. Focusing on the strengths of freshwater research regarding connectivity, across borders, involving multiple actors can help to improve ES research towards a more dynamic, landscape-level approach, which we believe can boost the implementation of the ES concept in freshwater policies. Bridging these gaps can contribute to achieve the ambitious targets of the EU's Green Deal.
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- Ágnes Vári
- Lendület Ecosystem Services Research Group, Centre for Ecological Research, 2-4 Alkotmány utca, 2163 Vácrátót, Hungary
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- Department Ecohydrology, Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), Justus-von-Liebig-Str. 7, 12489 Berlin, Germany
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- ELKH Balaton Limnological Research Institute, Klebelsberg K. u. 3, 8237 Tihany, Hungary
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- Institute of Hydrobiology and Aquatic Ecosystem Management, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Gregor-Mendel-Straße 33, 1180 Vienna, Austria
- WasserCluster Lunz - Biologische Station, Dr. Carl-Kupelwieser-Prom. 5, 3293 Lunz/See, Austria
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- Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Debrecen, Ótemető u. 2-4, 4028 Debrecen, Hungary
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- Center for Environmental Research and Impact Studies, University of Bucharest, Bulevardul Nicolae Bălcescu nr. 1, Bucureşti, 030167 Romania
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- Research Center for Systems Ecology and Sustainability, University of Bucharest, 050095 Bucharest, Romania
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- Limco International GmbH, Wollmatinger Str. 22, 78467 Constance, Germany
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- WWF Hungary, Álmos vezér útja 69/A, 1141 Budapest, Hungary
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- Biology Department, Faculty of Science and Education, University of Mostar, Rodoč bb, 88 000 Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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- Institute of Chemistry, Technology and Metallurgy, University of Belgrade, Njegoševa 12, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia
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- Department of Physical Geography, Geographical Institute “Jovan Cvijić”, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Djure Jakšića 9, Belgrade, Serbia
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- Lendület Ecosystem Services Research Group, Centre for Ecological Research, 2-4 Alkotmány utca, 2163 Vácrátót, Hungary
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Crane JL, Bijak AL, Maier MA, Nord MA. Development of current ambient background threshold values for sediment quality parameters in U.S. lakes on a regional and statewide basis. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2021; 793:148630. [PMID: 34328994 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.148630] [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: 05/17/2021] [Revised: 06/18/2021] [Accepted: 06/19/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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For the first time, background threshold values have been developed for a large suite of sediment quality parameters from 969 lakes spanning the conterminous United States (U.S.). These values provide a statistical basis for estimating current ambient background, which refers to chemical and physical (e.g., grain size) concentrations derived from natural and/or widespread diffuse anthropogenic sources (e.g., nonpoint sources like atmospheric deposition and land runoff). Surficial sediment quality data, collected based on the randomized, probability-based sampling design of the 2017 National Lakes Assessment (NLA) study, were utilized for this effort. These data included 16 metal(loid)s, 25 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), 53 polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) congeners, 27 legacy organochlorine pesticides and metabolites, total organic carbon (TOC), and grain size parameters. The data were analyzed based on different geographic areas, including: 10 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Regions, two major ecoregions bisecting the State of Minnesota (i.e., Temperate Plains and Upper Midwest), and for Minnesota. Hypothesis testing of 47 sediment quality parameters was performed on three geographic areas bisecting Minnesota, and there were many statistically significant (p < 0.05) differences between geographic pairs that included Minnesota. Background threshold values were calculated for parameters with >20% detects using 95% one-sided upper tolerance limit (UTL) with 95% coverage (UTL95-95) values. The UTL95-95 represents the value below which 95% of the population values are expected to fall with 95% confidence. These values were compared to matching sediment quality guidelines for the protection of benthic organisms, both with and without potential outliers removed. Applications and limitations of the UTL95-95 values are discussed. Jurisdictions within the continental U.S. could use these same publicly available sediment quality data to calculate UTL95-95 values for specific geographic areas, and other countries could design similar probabilistic field studies to determine current ambient background of sediment quality parameters in lake sediments.
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- Judy L Crane
- Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, 520 Lafayette Road North, St. Paul, MN 55155-4194, USA.
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- ORISE Research Participant, Office of Water, Office of Wetlands, Oceans and Watersheds, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1301 Constitution Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC 20460, USA.
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- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1301 Constitution Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC 20460, USA.
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- Region 5, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 77 West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, IL 60604, USA.
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Makwinja R, Mengistou S, Kaunda E, Alamirew T. Economic value of tropical inland freshwater shallow lakes: Lesson from Lake Malombe, Malawi. Afr J Ecol 2021. [DOI: 10.1111/aje.12935] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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- Rodgers Makwinja
- African Centre of Excellence for Water Management College of Natural and Computational Sciences Addis Ababa University Addis Ababa Ethiopia
- Ministry of Forestry and Natural Resources Fisheries Department Senga Bay Fisheries Research Center Salima Malawi
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- African Centre of Excellence for Water Management College of Natural and Computational Sciences Addis Ababa University Addis Ababa Ethiopia
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- Department of Aquaculture and Fisheries Science African Centre of Excellence in Aquaculture and Fisheries (AquaFish) Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources Lilongwe Malawi
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- Water and Land Resource Centre Addis Ababa University Addis Ababa Ethiopia
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Roldán D, Sarmiento JP, Roldán-Aráuz F. Economic valuation meta-analysis of freshwater improvement in developed and developing countries. Are they different? JOURNAL OF WATER AND HEALTH 2021; 19:736-749. [PMID: 34665767 DOI: 10.2166/wh.2021.268] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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The quality of drinking water differs across countries, so households show different levels of willingness to pay (WTP) to improve it, which is also influenced by their income levels. This study presents a meta-analysis using studies from 30 developed and developing countries, representing 4.7 billion inhabitants. At the international level, by standardizing these values (PPP) to international US dollars of 2011, developing countries show, on average, a greater WTP than developed countries relative to their income and an inverse correlation between their water footprint and their WTP.
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- Diego Roldán
- Faculty of Economics, Universidad de Cuenca, Cuenca, Ecuador E-mail: ;
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- Faculty of Economics, Universidad de Cuenca, Cuenca, Ecuador E-mail: ;
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Schafft M, Wegner B, Meyer N, Wolter C, Arlinghaus R. Ecological impacts of water-based recreational activities on freshwater ecosystems: a global meta-analysis. Proc Biol Sci 2021; 288:20211623. [PMID: 34547908 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2021.1623] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Human presence at water bodies can have a range of ecological impacts, creating trade-offs between recreation as an ecosystem service and conservation. Conservation policies could be improved by relying on robust knowledge about the relative ecological impacts of water-based recreation. We present the first global synthesis on recreation ecology in aquatic ecosystems, differentiating the ecological impacts of shore use, (shoreline) angling, swimming and boating. Impacts were assessed at three levels of biological organization (individuals, populations and communities) for several taxa. We screened over 13 000 articles and identified 94 suitable studies that met the inclusion criteria, providing 701 effect sizes. Impacts of boating and shore use resulted in consistently negative, significant ecological impacts across all levels of biological organization. The results were less consistent for angling and swimming. The strongest negative effects were observed in invertebrates and plants. Recreational impacts on birds were most pronounced at the individual level, but not significant at the community level. Due to publication bias and knowledge gaps, generalizations of the ecological impacts of aquatic recreation are challenging. Impacts depend less on the form of recreation. Thus, selectively constraining specific types of recreation may have little conservation value, as long as other forms of water-based recreation continue.
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- Malwina Schafft
- Department of Biology and Ecology of Fishes, Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Müggelseedamm 310, 12587 Berlin, Germany.,Division of Integrative Fisheries Management, Department of Crop and Animal Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philippstrasse 13, Haus 7, 10115 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Biology and Ecology of Fishes, Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Müggelseedamm 310, 12587 Berlin, Germany.,Division of Integrative Fisheries Management, Department of Crop and Animal Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philippstrasse 13, Haus 7, 10115 Berlin, Germany
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- Institute for General Ecology and Environmental Protection, Technische Universität Dresden, Pienner Straße 7, 01737 Tharandt, Germany
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- Department of Biology and Ecology of Fishes, Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Müggelseedamm 310, 12587 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Biology and Ecology of Fishes, Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Müggelseedamm 310, 12587 Berlin, Germany.,Division of Integrative Fisheries Management, Department of Crop and Animal Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philippstrasse 13, Haus 7, 10115 Berlin, Germany
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Perosa F, Fanger S, Zingraff-Hamed A, Disse M. A meta-analysis of the value of ecosystem services of floodplains for the Danube River Basin. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2021; 777:146062. [PMID: 33677306 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.146062] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2020] [Revised: 02/17/2021] [Accepted: 02/19/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Floodplains provide ecosystem services (ES). Their evaluation is complex and integrative assessment remains challenging for sciences and practices. Studies have been published in the last two decades reporting ES monetary values of floodplains. Since ES are site-specific, we focus on those studies regarding the Europe's second largest river basin, namely the Danube River Basin (DRB). By analyzing these studies, we aim to answer the questions: "Do the significant predictor variables differ from previous meta-analyses?" and "Does the spatial database improve the meta-analysis?" In this context, we conducted a systematic review on Scopus and Web of Science combining the four themes "value", "ES", "floodplain", and "location". We conducted a meta-analysis of the Danube floodplains' ES values with different sub-groups based on the ES classes (provisioning, regulating, and cultural) and implemented model selection based on the corrected Akaike Information Criterion. We selected 251 entries from 25 studies to set up with a PostgreSQL spatial database, which provides limitless possibilities to enrich the information on the study areas. We observed that the most important variables to describe ES values of DRB floodplains depend on the ES class, but in general the area proportions of water bodies and riparian landscapes are important, together with the valuation method and the chemical or ecological status of the corresponding river section. Finally, we provided two versions of unconditional benefit-transfer functions to evaluate provisioning, regulating, and cultural ES. This paper complements previously conducted meta-analyses to recognize significant characteristics to value ES and it is a valid basis to help determine the ES value of Danube floodplains.
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- Francesca Perosa
- Chair of Hydrology and River Basin Management, Technical University of Munich, Munich 80333, Germany.
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- Chair of Hydrology and River Basin Management, Technical University of Munich, Munich 80333, Germany
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- Chair for Strategic Landscape Planning and Management, Technical University of Munich, Freising 85354, Germany
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- Chair of Hydrology and River Basin Management, Technical University of Munich, Munich 80333, Germany
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Spatiotemporal Changes of Land Ecological Security and Its Obstacle Indicators Diagnosis in the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei Region. LAND 2021. [DOI: 10.3390/land10070706] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Land ecological security (LES) is a cornerstone of sustainable development, and the study of the LES evaluation has become a hot field in the LES problems. The coordinated development of the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei (BTH) region is one of China’s national development strategies. With the development of urbanization and industrialization, the conflicts between people and land in this area are increasingly prominent, and there are large regional differences in land ecological quality. To evaluate the land ecological security (LES) of this region, an evaluation index system is constructed based on the pressure–state–response (PSR) framework model, and the entropy-weighted TOPSIS method is applied to calculate the LES index. Then, the spatio-temporal changes of LES in the BTH region from 2007 to 2018 are analyzed. In addition, we adopt an obstacle degree model to analyze the obstacle indicators. The results show that the LES of the BTH region increased from 0.1934 to 0.3284 during 2007–2018, and the LES level increased from the dangerous level (I) to the critical level (III). Despite the improved LES in all areas in the BTH region, there were different trends (high in the central area, relatively low in the northern and southern areas). We identified seven obstacle indicators and discussed different development strategies. Our findings will provide guidelines for land use management and offer references for the coordinated development of the BTH region.
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Souliotis I, Voulvoulis N. Incorporating Ecosystem Services in the Assessment of Water Framework Directive Programmes of Measures. ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT 2021; 68:38-52. [PMID: 33978824 PMCID: PMC8172509 DOI: 10.1007/s00267-021-01478-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2021] [Accepted: 04/19/2021] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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The EU Water Framework Directive requires the development of management responses aimed towards improving water quality as a result of improving ecosystem health (system state). Ecosystems have potential to supply a range of services that are of fundamental importance to human well-being, health, livelihoods and survival, and their capacity to supply these services depends on the ecosystem condition (its structure and processes). According to the WFD, Programmes of Measures should be developed to improve overall water status by reducing anthropogenic catchment pressures to levels compatible with the achievement of the ecological objectives of the directive, and when designed and implemented properly should improve the ecological condition of aquatic ecosystems that the delivery of ecosystem services depends on. Monitoring and evaluation of implemented measures are crucial for assessing their effectiveness and creating the agenda for consecutive planning cycles. Considering the challenges of achieving water status improvements, and the difficulties of communicating these to the wider public, we develop a framework for the evaluation of measures cost-effectiveness that considers ecosystem services as the benefits from the reduction of pressures on water bodies. We demonstrate its application through a case study and discuss its potential to facilitate the economic analysis required by the directive, and that most European water authorities had problems with. Findings demonstrate the potential of the methodology to effectively incorporate ecosystem services in the assessment of costs and benefits of proposed actions, as well as its potential to engage stakeholders.
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- Ioannis Souliotis
- Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London, London, UK
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Quantifying Ecosystem Services of High Mountain Lakes across Different Socio-Ecological Contexts. SUSTAINABILITY 2021. [DOI: 10.3390/su13116051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Mountain lakes are highly sensitive to global change, requiring sustainable management strategies that support crucial ecosystem services (ES). However, small mountain lakes are rarely in the focus of ES assessments, and indicators are potentially lacking. Therefore, this study aimed at comprehensively assessing key ES of 15 study lakes located in two regions in the European Alps. We involved local stakeholders and experts to identify important ES. We quantified eight ES in non-monetary terms, using 29 indicators based on limnological, spatial and socio-economic data. Finally, we evaluated ES in relation to the socio-ecological context of the study lakes. The most important ES included surface water for non-drinking purposes, maintaining populations and habitats, outdoor recreation, aesthetic value, entertainment and representation, scientific research, education as well as existence, option, or bequest value. Quantitative results indicate varying levels of ES across the study lakes. Based on 12 different socio-ecological variables, we identified four groups of lakes differing also in five ES. Maintaining populations and habitats, aesthetic value as well as existence, option or bequest value were rather independent from the socio-ecological context. Our findings contribute to a deeper understanding of ES of mountain lakes, also supporting the development of sustainable management strategies in mountain regions.
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Lake Users’ Perceptions of Environmental Change: Ecosystem Services and Disservices Associated with Aquatic Plants. WATER 2021. [DOI: 10.3390/w13111459] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Lake Léman (Lake Geneva), Switzerland, is known to have undergone major environmental change over the last few decades, including changes in the abundance, distribution, and species composition of macrophytic plants (aquatic plants). In this study, questionnaires and key informant interviews were used to assess lake users’ perceptions of broad scale environmental change in the lake paying special attention tochanges in the abundance of aquatic plants and the perceived ecosystem services (ES) and ecosystem disservices (EDS) associated with them. In addition, we assessed whether users’ perceptions of aquatic plants had an impact on perceived management need. Most respondents (63%) perceived aquatic plant abundance to have increased over the last 10 years, primarily because of climate change. Aquatic plants were seen to benefit water quality through improved regulation and supporting services, and to provide important habitat and food for fauna. Most EDS associated with increased aquatic plant abundance were categorized as cultural or economic. User perceptions of the ES and EDS associated with aquatic plants affected support for management (60% of respondents supported some form of management), and such information is important for informing environmental decision making.
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Seifert-Dähnn I, Furuseth IS, Vondolia GK, Gal G, de Eyto E, Jennings E, Pierson D. Costs and benefits of automated high-frequency environmental monitoring - The case of lake water management. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT 2021; 285:112108. [PMID: 33561731 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.112108] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2020] [Revised: 01/19/2021] [Accepted: 01/31/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Freshwater lakes are dynamic ecosystems and provide multiple ecosystem services to humans. Sudden changes in lake environmental conditions such as cyanobacterial blooms can negatively impact lake usage. Automated high-frequency monitoring (AHFM) systems allow the detection of short-lived extreme and unpredictable events and enable lake managers to take mitigation actions earlier than if basing decisions on conventional monitoring programmes. In this study a cost-benefit approach was used to compare the costs of implementing and running an AHFM system with its potential benefits for three case study lakes. It was shown that AHFM can help avoid human health impacts, lost recreation opportunities, and revenue losses for livestock, aquaculture and agriculture as well as reputational damages for drinking water treatment. Our results showed that the largest benefits of AHFM can be expected in prevention of human health impacts and reputational damages. The potential benefits of AHFM, however, do not always outweigh installation and operation costs. While for Lake Kinneret (Israel) over a 10-year period, the depreciated total benefits are higher than the depreciated total costs, this is not the case for Lough Gara (Ireland). For Lake Mälaren in Sweden it would depend on the configuration of the AHFM system, as well as on how the benefits are calculated. In general, the higher the frequency and severity of changes in lake environmental conditions associated with detrimental consequences for humans and the higher the number of lake users, the more likely it is that the application of an AHFM system is financially viable.
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- The Yigal Allon Kinneret Limnological Laboratory, Israel Oceanographic & Limnological Research, PO Box 447, Migdal, Israel
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- Marine Institute, Furnace, Newport, Co, Mayo, F28PF65, Ireland
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- Centre for Freshwater and Environmental Studies, Dundalk Institute of Technology, Ireland
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- Limnology Department, Institute of Ecology and Genetics, Uppsala University, Norbyvägen 18 D, 752 36, Uppsala, Sweden
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Evaluation of the quality of lentic ecosystems in Romania by a GIS based WRASTIC model. Sci Rep 2021; 11:5361. [PMID: 33686107 PMCID: PMC7970884 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-84802-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2020] [Accepted: 02/22/2021] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Globally, ecosystems are constantly degrading as a result of pressures derived from human activities and climate change. For working towards the restoration of the natural balance, it is necessary to evaluate the deviations induced in the ecosystems, to identify where the changes took place, to know what is their amplitude and to decide where it is possible to get involved. Many aquatic ecosystems are depreciated and their restoration is often difficult. Development of appropriate assessment methodologies will improve the decision-making process in public policies for environmental protection and conservation of biodiversity. This study presents an assessment of the degradation level of lentic ecosystems in Romania, performed through a multi-criteria analysis. An extension of the WRASTIC index (Wastewater-Recreational-Agricultural-Size-Transportations-Indutrial-Cover) was generated, namely WRASTIC-HI. The new index was obtained by including values derived from the Potential Pollutant Load index. The analysis showed that 13% of the evaluated lakes are natural, 56.5% are semi-degraded and 30.5% are degraded. The proposed methodology allows to determine the spatial distribution of the degradation sources and to calculate the corresponding indicators. The results obtained provide a useful tool for diagnostic step that can be used as a cornerstone to further identification of environmental conflicts and proposals for improvement of the ecological status of the lentic ecosystems.
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Water Ecosystem Service Quality Evaluation and Value Assessment of Taihu Lake in China. WATER 2021. [DOI: 10.3390/w13050618] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Taihu Lake is the third largest freshwater lake in China. Water ecosystems play an important role in the survival and development of human society. The evaluation of water ecosystem services is helpful to understand and grasp the changing rules of Taihu Lake’s ecosystem services value in recent years. First, we used the Water Environment Qualities Index (WQI) to evaluate the water ecological quality of Taihu Lake; second, on the basis of the survey data from 2010 to 2018, we combined economic and ecological methods to evaluate the water ecosystem of Taihu Lake. The evaluation system includes four major service functions, 11 second-class evaluation indicators and 19 index factor. Research indicates that, (1) in the past 8 years, the WQI of Taihu Lake increased year by year and Taihu Lake changed from moderate pollution to light pollution; (2) provisioning services are the main service of Taihu Lake’s water ecosystem and the order of various service values was provisioning service value > regulation service value > cultural service value > support service value, with water supply as the core function of provisioning services; and (3) the total values in 2010, 2014, and 2018 were 115.39 billion yuan, 113.31 billion yuan, and 119.96 billion yuan, respectively, showing a trend of first decreasing and then increasing. To a certain extent, the improvement in Taihu Lake’s water ecological quality has led to an increase in the value of regulation services.
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He Y, Song K, Yang C, He W, Li Y, Xu F. Geographical location and water depth are important driving factors for the differences of suspended particulate organic matter (SPOM) in lake environment across nationwide scale: Evidences from n-alkane fingerprints. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2021; 752:142948. [PMID: 33109370 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.142948] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2020] [Revised: 10/06/2020] [Accepted: 10/08/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Suspended particulate organic matter (SPOM) plays a connective role in global biogeochemical carbon cycles and energy flows in aquatic ecosystems. However, little is known about the occurrence and source of SPOM in lake environment and their driving factors across nationwide scale. Here, we utilize the molecular markers of n-alkanes and their fingerprints in 46 typical lakes and reservoirs with different water depths across China from both sides of the Hu Line to study this issue. Σ29n-alkanes, Σ biogenic n-alkanes and Σ anthropogenic n-alkanes ranged from 104.8 to 10332 ng·L-1, from 88.5 to 4843 ng·L-1, and from 16.2 to 5488 ng·L-1, respectively. Their occurrences were only associated with water depth. Then, we compared the differences of carbon-chain distribution of both biogenic and anthropogenic n-alkanes and related proxies in different lake groups. The profiles of different biogenic and anthropogenic n-alkanes posed large differences in different lake groups. Finally, linear discriminant analysis (LDA) was applied to test the possible effects of geographical location and water depth on the holistic differences of SPOM in different lakes and reservoirs across China. The results illustrated that both geographical location and water depth were important driving factors for the holistic differences of SPOM in different lakes and reservoirs across China. Intensive anthropogenic activities narrowed the differences between shallow and deep lakes in eastern China. In conclusion, this study provided new insights into the driving factor analysis of SPOM in lakes and reservoirs on large scale.
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- Yong He
- MOE Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- MOE Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China; State Key Joint Laboratory of Environmental Simulation and Pollution Control, College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- MOE Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- MOE Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- MOE Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- MOE Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.
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Benefits of machine learning and sampling frequency on phytoplankton bloom forecasts in coastal areas. ECOL INFORM 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2020.101174] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Derot J, Yajima H, Jacquet S. Advances in forecasting harmful algal blooms using machine learning models: A case study with Planktothrix rubescens in Lake Geneva. HARMFUL ALGAE 2020; 99:101906. [PMID: 33218452 DOI: 10.1016/j.hal.2020.101906] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2020] [Revised: 09/15/2020] [Accepted: 09/21/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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The development of anthropic activities during the 20th century increased the nutrient fluxes in freshwater ecosystems, leading to the eutrophication phenomenon that most often promotes harmful algal blooms (HABs). Recent years have witnessed the regular and massive development of some filamentous algae or cyanobacteria in Lake Geneva. Consequently, important blooms could result in detrimental impacts on economic issues and human health. In this study, we tried to lay the foundation of an HAB forecast model to help scientists and local stakeholders with the present and future management of this peri-alpine lake. Our forecast strategy was based on pairing two machine learning models with a long-term database built over the past 34 years. We created HAB groups via a K-means model. Then, we introduced different lag times in the input of a random forest (RF) model, using a sliding window. Finally, we used a high-frequency dataset to compare the natural mechanisms with numerical interaction using individual conditional expectation plots. We demonstrate that some HAB events can be forecasted over a year scale. The information contained in the concentration data of the cyanobacteria was synthesized in the form of four intensity groups that directly depend on the P. rubescens concentration. The categorical transformation of these data allowed us to obtain a forecast with correlation coefficients that stayed above a threshold of 0.5 until one year for the counting cells and two years for the biovolume data. Moreover, we found that the RF model predicted the best P. rubescens abundance for water temperatures around 14°C. This result is consistent with the biological processes of the toxic cyanobacterium. In this study, we found that the coupling between K-means and RF models could help in forecasting the development of the bloom-forming P. rubescens in Lake Geneva. This methodology could create a numerical decision support tool, which should be a significant advantage for lake managers.
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- Jonathan Derot
- Estuary Research Center, Shimane University, 1060 Nishikawatsu-cho, Matsue, Shimane 690-8504, Japan.
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- Estuary Research Center, Shimane University, 1060 Nishikawatsu-cho, Matsue, Shimane 690-8504, Japan
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- Université Savoie Mont Blanc, INRAE, UMR CARRTEL, 74200 Thonon-les-Bains, France
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Thompson S, Vehkaoja M, Pellikka J, Nummi P. Ecosystem services provided by beaversCastorspp. Mamm Rev 2020. [DOI: 10.1111/mam.12220] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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- Stella Thompson
- Department of Forest Sciences University of Helsinki Latokartanonkaari 7 Helsinki00790 Finland
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- Department of Forest Sciences University of Helsinki Latokartanonkaari 7 Helsinki00790 Finland
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- Natural Resources Institute Finland Latokartanonkaari 9 Helsinki00790 Finland
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- Department of Forest Sciences University of Helsinki Latokartanonkaari 7 Helsinki00790 Finland
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Koski V, Kotamäki N, Hämäläinen H, Meissner K, Karvanen J, Kärkkäinen S. The value of perfect and imperfect information in lake monitoring and management. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2020; 726:138396. [PMID: 32481219 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.138396] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2020] [Revised: 03/17/2020] [Accepted: 03/31/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Uncertainty in the information obtained through monitoring complicates decision making about aquatic ecosystems management actions. We suggest the value of information (VOI) to assess the profitability of paying for additional monitoring information, when taking into account the costs and benefits of monitoring and management actions, as well as associated uncertainty. Estimating the monetary value of the ecosystem needed for deriving VOI is challenging. Therefore, instead of considering a single value, we evaluate the sensitivity of VOI to varying monetary value. We also extend the VOI analysis to the more realistic context where additional information does not result in perfect, but rather in imperfect information on the true state of the environment. Therefore, we analytically derive the value of perfect information in the case of two alternative decisions and two states of uncertainty. Second, we describe a Monte Carlo type of approach to evaluate the value of imperfect information about a continuous classification variable. Third, we determine confidence intervals for the VOI with a percentile bootstrap method. Results for our case study on 144 Finnish lakes suggest that generally, the value of monitoring exceeds the cost. It is particularly profitable to monitor lakes that meet the quality standards a priori, to ascertain that expensive and unnecessary management can be avoided. The VOI analysis provides a novel tool for lake and other environmental managers to estimate the value of additional monitoring data for a particular, single case, e.g. a lake, when an additional benefit is attainable through remedial management actions.
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- Vilja Koski
- Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Jyvaskyla, P.O. Box 35, 40014 Jyväskylä, Finland.
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- Freshwater Centre, Finnish Environment Institute, Survontie 9 A, 40500 Jyväskylä, Finland
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Jyvaskyla, P.O. Box 35, 40014 Jyväskylä, Finland
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- Programme for Environmental Information, Finnish Environment Institute, Survontie 9 A, 40500 Jyväskylä, Finland
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- Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Jyvaskyla, P.O. Box 35, 40014 Jyväskylä, Finland
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- Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Jyvaskyla, P.O. Box 35, 40014 Jyväskylä, Finland
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Xu X, Chen M, Yang G, Jiang B, Zhang J. Wetland ecosystem services research: A critical review. Glob Ecol Conserv 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.gecco.2020.e01027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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McDougall CW, Hanley N, Quilliam RS, Needham K, Oliver DM. Valuing inland blue space: A contingent valuation study of two large freshwater lakes. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2020; 715:136921. [PMID: 32032988 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.136921] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2019] [Revised: 01/23/2020] [Accepted: 01/23/2020] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Water bodies, or blue spaces, offer a range of health and well-being benefits. Many of these benefits occur in waterside spaces and do not require direct water contact. For example, non-water based physical activity (e.g. walking and running) and reduced stress as a result of viewing water from a distance. However, research dedicated to understanding the economic impact of changes to freshwater ecosystems predominantly focuses on water-based recreation and water quality. As a result, the economic impacts of changes to waterside space are often overlooked. This study used the contingent valuation method to determine public preference for the protection of lakeside quality, in terms of lake views, path quality and lakeside access, at two large freshwater lakes in Scotland (Loch Lomond and Loch Leven). The aim of the study was to estimate willingness to pay among a sample of adults in Scotland (n = 1056) for the protection of lakeside quality. Results indicate that the majority of respondents are willing to pay for the preservation of lakeside quality at each lake. Based upon the most conservative estimates obtained, mean willingness to pay for the protection of lakeside quality was £12.06 per household per year at Loch Lomond and £8.44 at Loch Leven. These findings provide valuable economic data and suggest that changes to waterside space at destination water bodies have nationally important economic impacts. Greater consideration of the economic impact of changes to lakeside space is recommended in order to develop cost-effective and socially optimal water resource management policies at large freshwater lakes.
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- Craig W McDougall
- Biological & Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling, UK.
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- Institute of Biodiversity Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
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- Biological & Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling, UK
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- Institute of Biodiversity Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
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- Biological & Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling, UK
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Research hotspots and current challenges of lakes and reservoirs: a bibliometric analysis. Scientometrics 2020. [DOI: 10.1007/s11192-020-03453-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Economic Valuation of Earth’s Critical Zone: A Pilot Study of the Zhangxi Catchment, China. SUSTAINABILITY 2020. [DOI: 10.3390/su12041699] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Earth’s critical zone is the physical layer contained between the top of the vegetation canopy and the depth of the circulating groundwater below the land surface. The critical zone is defined within the study of Earth natural sciences as the unique terrestrial biophysical system that supplies most life-sustaining resources for humans. A feature of this specific physical system that is defined by geographical locale is the interactions of people with the vertically-connected biophysical flows and transformations (energy, material, biodiversity) that contribute to human welfare by delivering, both directly and indirectly, critical zone services to humankind. We have characterized these interactions by considering the full extent of the critical zone through the application of economic valuation methods. We estimated the current economic value of 14 critical zone services for 5 biophysical components of Earth’s critical zone, based on data collected from the Zhangxi catchment of Ningbo city located in the Yangtze River Delta region of China and from several additional published studies. For the full vertical extent of Earth’s critical zone bounded by the Zhangxi catchment, the value, most of which is outside the market, was estimated to be USD 116 million in 2018. Valuation of goods and services was delineated for benefits arising from key components of the critical zone physical system. The estimated value of the atmospheric component of Earth’s critical zone was USD 5 million; the vegetation component value was USD 96 million; the soil component value was USD 8 million; the surface water component value was USD 5 million; and the groundwater component value was USD 2 million. Because of the nature of the uncertainties and lack of data for the full range of identified services, these values are considered a minimum estimate. Gross domestic product in the Zhangxi catchment was around USD 431 million in 2018. These results illustrate, for one location, the range of services that arise when considering the full depth of Earth’s critical zone, the data needs for valuing this range of services, and the conceptual and potential methodological advances, and the challenges, that exist at the disciplinary interface between Earth natural sciences and applied economics.
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Meyerhoff J, Klefoth T, Arlinghaus R. The value artificial lake ecosystems provide to recreational anglers: Implications for management of biodiversity and outdoor recreation. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT 2019; 252:109580. [PMID: 31590054 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.109580] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2019] [Revised: 08/06/2019] [Accepted: 09/14/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Small lakes largely outnumber large lakes among the world's lentic ecosystems. Despite being common landscape elements, however, little is known about the value small lakes provide to recreationists. This paper presents results of an economic valuation study concerned with small gravel pits in Lower Saxony, Germany. Gravel pits are artificially created lake ecosystems that, particularly in Europe, are regularly used and managed by privately organized recreational anglers in an angling club context. A stated choice experiment provided insights into anglers' preferences for the abundance of target fish species, biodiversity of taxa other than fishes in the lakes as well as in the lake surroundings, and about the use of gravel pits by other recreationists for walking, swimming or boating. Latent class analysis identified five segments that varied in preferences. For the majority of anglers, the value of angling at gravel pit lakes was improved by an increase in the abundance of predatory fishes. Additionally, the presence of aquatic and terrestrial endangered species at the lakes increased the value of the ecosystems as perceived by the majority of anglers. By contrast, the presence of other recreational uses reduced the value of angling, with swimming being considered the most disturbing, while the degree of shoreline development had the least impact on the recorded choices. The results suggest that managing the gravel pit lakes for high biodiversity and the presence of desired game fish species maximizes the value for anglers. However, also two smaller segments with anglers revealing lexicographic preferences were identified. These anglers expressed either strong preferences against swimming in the lakes or strongly preferred the opportunity to use boats. Lake management may address the preference heterogeneity and the aversion against other recreational uses, such as swimming, by spatial zoning.
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Affiliation(s)
- Jürgen Meyerhoff
- Institute for Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, Technische Universität Berlin, Straße des 17, Juni 145, 10623, Berlin, Germany.
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- Angler Association of Lower Saxony, Brüsseler Str. 4, 30539, Hannover, Germany.
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- Department of Biology and Ecology of Fishes, Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Müggelseedamm 310, 12587, Berlin, Germany; Division of Integrative Fisheries Management, Faculty of Life Sciences, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philippstrasse 13, Haus 7, 10115, Berlin, Germany.
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