Landscape conservation planning to sustain ecosystem services under climate change

Lin Y.-P.Chen C.-J.Lien W.-Y.Chang W.-H.Petway J.R.YU-PIN LINLI-CHI CHIANG2020-01-142020-01-1420192071-1050https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/449161Sustainable conservation aims to ensure the sustained conservation of landscape multi-functionality which in turn requires ensuring ecosystem service (ES) and habitat quality (HQ) sustainability with inclusive landscape-scale conservation planning. This study proposes a landscape conservation planning (LCP) framework for landscape-scale ES-HQ conservation and sustainability. Spatially explicit hotspots for five ESs and HQs are identified via InVEST and LISA software. Spatiotemporal changes in ES-HQ hotspots, in terms of stability and resilience, are delineated. The Zonation technique is applied to prioritize areas for conservation based on ES-HQ hotspot stability and resilience maps. High priority conservation areas are identified and are used as reserve area inputs for land use modeling with CLUE-S software to simulate future land use change under climate change scenarios. This study reports that varied rainfall and climate are major driving factors of ES-HQ sustainability disturbance in the study area. Furthermore, our proposed conservation Strategy 2 demonstrates that a larger extent of landscape multi-functionality can be sustained when the existing conservation area includes the total area of identified ES-HQ resilient hotspots. This study effectively identifies the stability and resiliency of ES-HQ hotspot areas affected by disturbances for high priority landscape conservation requirements to ensure ES-HQ sustainability and landscape multi-functionality in the study area. © 2019 by the authors.[SDGs]SDG13[SDGs]SDG15climate change; conservation planning; disturbance; ecosystem resilience; ecosystem service; habitat quality; land use change; landscape; prioritization; software; sustainabilityLandscape conservation planning to sustain ecosystem services under climate changejournal article10.3390/su110513932-s2.0-85062819480https://www2.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85062819480&doi=10.3390%2fsu11051393&partnerID=40&md5=5a90f9dca7f5da5e83088d76845a51e1