Tropical wetland ecosystem service assessments in East Africa; A review of approaches and challenges
Tropical wetland ecosystem service assessments in East Africa; A review of approaches and challenges
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10.1016/j.envsoft.2018.01.022
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2018-04
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C. Langan;J. Farmer;M. Rivington;Jo U. Smith
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作者：
C. Langan;J. Farmer;M. Rivington;Jo U. Smith
东非湿地是生态系统服务的热点，特别是在气候调节、供水和粮食生产方面。我们回顾了当前生态系统服务评估方法捕捉重要社会生态动态的能力，从而为湿地管理和人类福祉提供洞察力。我们综合了人类对湿地影响的证据，并评估了模拟时空动态以及土地管理对多种生态系统功能和服务的模型和工具的适宜性。目前的方法在很大程度上不适合于提高社会生态系统动力学的知识，可以通过跨学科模型集成来极大地改进，以关注多种生态系统功能和服务之间的相互作用。建模可以缓解热带湿地生态系统服务管理面临的挑战，并支持土地管理者和政策制定者的决策。在东非，更好地了解社会生态系统动态是至关重要的，因为那里的社会容易受到贫困和气候变化的影响，同时依赖以农业生态为基础的经济。
East African wetlands are hotspots of ecosystem services, particularly for climate regulation, water provision and food production. We review the ability of current approaches to ecosystem service assessments to capture important social-ecological dynamics to provide insight for wetland management and human wellbeing. We synthesise evidence of human influences on wetlands and gauge the suitability of models and tools for simulating spatial and temporal dynamics, and land management on multiple ecosystem functions and services. Current approaches are largely unsuitable for advancing knowledge of social-ecological system dynamics and could be greatly improved with inter-disciplinary model integration to focus upon interactions between multiple ecosystem functions and services. Modelling can alleviate challenges that tropical wetland ecosystem services management faces and support decision-making of land managers and policymakers. Better understanding of social-ecological systems dynamics is crucial in East Africa where societies are vulnerable to poverty and climate variability, whilst dependent upon agrarian-ecological based economies.