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Dynamics of ecosystem services during forest transitions in Reventazón, Costa Rica

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Title Dynamics of ecosystem services during forest transitions in Reventazón, Costa Rica
 
Creator Vallet, A.
Locatelli, Bruno
Levrel, H.
Brenes Pérez, C.
Imbach, Pablo
Estrada-Carmona, Natalia
Manlay, R.
Oszwald, Johan
 
Subject forests
forest ecology
carbon sequestration
ecosystems
 
Description The forest transition framework describes the temporal changes of forest areas with economic development. A first phase of forest contraction is followed by a second phase of expansion once a turning point is reached. This framework does not differentiate forest types or ecosystem services, and describes forests regardless of their contribution to human well-being. For several decades, deforestation in many tropical regions has degraded ecosystem services, such as watershed regulation, while increasing provisioning services from agriculture, for example, food. Forest transitions and expansion have been observed in some countries, but their consequences for ecosystem services are often unclear. We analyzed the implications of forest cover change on ecosystem services in Costa Rica, where a forest transition has been suggested. A review of literature and secondary data on forest and ecosystem services in Costa Rica indicated that forest transition might have led to an ecosystem services transition. We modeled and mapped the changes of selected ecosystem services in the upper part of the Reventazón watershed and analyzed how supply changed over time in order to identify possible transitions in ecosystem services. The modeled changes of ecosystem services is similar to the second phase of a forest transition but no turning point was identified, probably because of the limited temporal scope of the analysis. Trends of provisioning and regulating services and their tradeoffs were opposite in different spatial subunits of our study area, which highlights the importance of scale in the analysis of ecosystem services and forest transitions. The ecosystem services transition framework proposed in this study is useful for analyzing the temporal changes of ecosystem services and linking socio-economic drivers to ecosystem services demand at different scales.
 
Date 2016
2016-10-25T14:31:59Z
2016-10-25T14:31:59Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Vallet, A.; Locatelli, B.; Levrel, H.; Brenes Pérez, C.; Imbach, P.; Estrada Carmona, N.; Manlay, R.; Oszwald, J. (2016) Dynamics of ecosystem services during forest transitions in Reventazón, Costa Rica. PLoS ONE 11(7): e0158615 ISSN: 1932-6203
1932-6203
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/77393
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0158615
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0158615
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-4.0
Open Access
 
Format e0158615
application/pdf
 
Publisher Public Library of Science
 
Source PLOS ONE