TY - JOUR

T1 - Assessing land use and flood management impacts on ecosystem services in a river landscape (Upper Danube, Germany)

AU - Stammel, Barbara

AU - Fischer, Christine

AU - Cyffka, Bernd

AU - Albert, Christian

AU - Damm, Christian

AU - Dehnhardt, Alexandra

AU - Fischer, Helmut

AU - Foeckler, Francis

AU - Gerstner, Lars

AU - Hoffmann, Tim G.

AU - Iwanowski, Janette

AU - Kasperidus, Hans D.

AU - Linnemann, Kathrin

AU - Mehl, Dietmar

AU - Podschun, Simone A.

AU - Rayanov, Marin

AU - Ritz, Stephanie

AU - Rumm, Andrea

AU - Scholz, Mathias

AU - Schulz-Zunkel, Christiane

AU - Thiele, Julia

AU - Venohr, Markus

AU - von Haaren, Christina

AU - Pusch, Martin T.

AU - Gelhaus, Marion

N1 - Funding information: The RESI project was supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) as part of the funding program Regional Water Resources Management for Sustainable Protection of Waters in Germany (ReWaM) in the BMBF funding priority NaWaM in the program FONA3 [Grant 033W024A-K]. It benefitted from fruitful discussions with the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN), Bonn, the German Environment Agency (UBA), Dessau-Roßlau, as well as the German Working Group on Water Issues of the Federal States (LAWA), which helped to improve the methods. The Bavarian State Office for the Environment (LfU) and the responsible Water management authority Donauwörth (namely Marion Keil and Viola Mettin) provided data and helped developing the scenarios. The RESI project was supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) as part of the funding program Regional Water Resources Management for Sustainable Protection of Waters in Germany (ReWaM) in the BMBF funding priority NaWaM in the program FONA [Grant 033W024A?K]. It benefitted from fruitful discussions with the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN), Bonn, the German Environment Agency (UBA), Dessau?Roßlau, as well as the German Working Group on Water Issues of the Federal States (LAWA), which helped to improve the methods. The Bavarian State Office for the Environment (LfU) and the responsible Water management authority Donauwörth (namely Marion Keil and Viola Mettin) provided data and helped developing the scenarios. 3

PY - 2021/2/7

Y1 - 2021/2/7

N2 - Rivers and floodplains provide many regulating, provisioning and cultural ecosystem services (ES) such as flood risk regulation, crop production or recreation. Intensive use of resources such as hydropower production, construction of detention basins and intensive agriculture substantially change ecosystems and may affect their capacity to provide ES. Legal frameworks such as the European Water Framework Directive, Bird and Habitats Directive and Floods Directive already address various uses and interests. However, management is still sectoral and often potential synergies or trade-offs between sectors are not considered. The ES concept could support a joint and holistic evaluation of impacts and proactively suggest advantageous options. The river ecosystem service index (RESI) method evaluates the capacity of floodplains to provide ES by using a standardized five-point scale for 1 km-floodplain segments based on available spatial data. This scaling allows consistent scoring of all ES and their integration into a single index. The aim of this article is to assess ES impacts of different flood prevention scenarios on a 75 km section of the Danube river corridor in Germany. The RESI method was applied to evaluate scenario effects on 13 ES with the standardized five-point scale. Synergies and trade-offs were identified as well as ES bundles and dependencies on land use and connectivity. The ratio of actual and former floodplain has the strongest influence on the total ES provision: the higher the percentage and area of an active floodplain, the higher the sum of ES. The RESI method proved useful to support decision-making in regional planning.

AB - Rivers and floodplains provide many regulating, provisioning and cultural ecosystem services (ES) such as flood risk regulation, crop production or recreation. Intensive use of resources such as hydropower production, construction of detention basins and intensive agriculture substantially change ecosystems and may affect their capacity to provide ES. Legal frameworks such as the European Water Framework Directive, Bird and Habitats Directive and Floods Directive already address various uses and interests. However, management is still sectoral and often potential synergies or trade-offs between sectors are not considered. The ES concept could support a joint and holistic evaluation of impacts and proactively suggest advantageous options. The river ecosystem service index (RESI) method evaluates the capacity of floodplains to provide ES by using a standardized five-point scale for 1 km-floodplain segments based on available spatial data. This scaling allows consistent scoring of all ES and their integration into a single index. The aim of this article is to assess ES impacts of different flood prevention scenarios on a 75 km section of the Danube river corridor in Germany. The RESI method was applied to evaluate scenario effects on 13 ES with the standardized five-point scale. Synergies and trade-offs were identified as well as ES bundles and dependencies on land use and connectivity. The ratio of actual and former floodplain has the strongest influence on the total ES provision: the higher the percentage and area of an active floodplain, the higher the sum of ES. The RESI method proved useful to support decision-making in regional planning.

KW - assessment

KW - cultural

KW - floodplains

KW - index

KW - inter-sectoral management

KW - regulating and provisioning ecosystem services

KW - stakeholders

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85087639481&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1002/rra.3669

DO - 10.1002/rra.3669

M3 - Article

VL - 37

SP - 209

EP - 220

JO - River Research and Applications

JF - River Research and Applications

SN - 1535-1459

IS - 2

ER -