TY - JOUR

T1 - The use of detailed biotope data for linking biodiversity with ecosystem services in Finland

AU - Vihervaara, Petteri

AU - Kumpula, Timo

AU - Ruokolainen, Anni

AU - Tanskanen, Ari

AU - Burkhard, Benjamin

N1 - Funding Information: We thank the Finnish Forest and Park Service, Metsähallitus, for the kind provision of biotope data for this study. The project has been supported by funding from the Academy of Finland and the German DAAD for researcher exchange project (2009–2011), ‘Managing of Ecosystem Services in Northern Finland’, and the Academy of Finland for REGSUS project. We thank two anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments. Copyright: Copyright 2017 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.

PY - 2012/6/1

Y1 - 2012/6/1

N2 - It has been widely accepted that ecosystem services (ESs) should be taken into account in natural resource management decisions. Hence, there is an increasing need for innovative quantification methods and tools to evaluate ESs on different landscape scales, and under varying land-use forms. Integrating biodiversity protection with the provision of ESs is a key element for sustainable land-use planning. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and spatial analysis, together with various environmental data, provide a suitable foundation for ESs evaluations. Recent advances in earth observation technologies have supported land-cover-based ESs mapping on global, regional and local scales. Global and regional land-cover maps can help in coarse assessments of some biophysical characteristics of the environment, but they cannot provide exact information about local biodiversity and biotope types that form the base of ESs supply. Therefore, more detailed tools such as aerial photographs and field surveys are needed. High-quality biotope data are usually fragmentary or absent for private land in Finland, but are available for most state-owned commercial forests and protection areas. We tested the use of biotope data derived from aerial photographs and an extensive field inventory to map ESs in natural protection areas in northern Finland. We argue that protection areas, where large and long-term databases have been collected, offer excellent study sites to develop further the methodology for integrating coarse-scale remote-sensing data, such as CORINE, with more detailed ecological and structural data collected from aerial photographs and ground surveys. In addition, the use of detailed biotope data supports the linkage of biodiversity information with landscapes' capacities to provide ESs. Different data sources will improve the management of protection areas, thereby optimizing multiple land-use objectives.

AB - It has been widely accepted that ecosystem services (ESs) should be taken into account in natural resource management decisions. Hence, there is an increasing need for innovative quantification methods and tools to evaluate ESs on different landscape scales, and under varying land-use forms. Integrating biodiversity protection with the provision of ESs is a key element for sustainable land-use planning. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and spatial analysis, together with various environmental data, provide a suitable foundation for ESs evaluations. Recent advances in earth observation technologies have supported land-cover-based ESs mapping on global, regional and local scales. Global and regional land-cover maps can help in coarse assessments of some biophysical characteristics of the environment, but they cannot provide exact information about local biodiversity and biotope types that form the base of ESs supply. Therefore, more detailed tools such as aerial photographs and field surveys are needed. High-quality biotope data are usually fragmentary or absent for private land in Finland, but are available for most state-owned commercial forests and protection areas. We tested the use of biotope data derived from aerial photographs and an extensive field inventory to map ESs in natural protection areas in northern Finland. We argue that protection areas, where large and long-term databases have been collected, offer excellent study sites to develop further the methodology for integrating coarse-scale remote-sensing data, such as CORINE, with more detailed ecological and structural data collected from aerial photographs and ground surveys. In addition, the use of detailed biotope data supports the linkage of biodiversity information with landscapes' capacities to provide ESs. Different data sources will improve the management of protection areas, thereby optimizing multiple land-use objectives.

KW - biodiversity

KW - biotope classification

KW - conservation

KW - ecosystem service mapping

KW - environmental management

KW - GIS

KW - habitat

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U2 - 10.1080/21513732.2012.686120

DO - 10.1080/21513732.2012.686120

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:84863662907

VL - 8

SP - 169

EP - 185

JO - International Journal of Biodiversity Science, Ecosystem Services and Management

JF - International Journal of Biodiversity Science, Ecosystem Services and Management

SN - 2151-3732

IS - 1-2

ER -