Journal
ECOSYSTEM SERVICES
Volume 51, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2021.101344
Keywords
HANPP; eHANPP; NUTS2; Provisioning ecosystem services; Ecosystem functioning; European Union
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Funding
- European Union's Horizon 2020 programme [773901]
- Austrian Ministry for Sustainability and tourism under the European Research NETwork on Sustainable Animal Production (ERA-NET SusAn) [101243]
- Horizon 2020 Program of the European Union [SusAn/0001/2016]
- Fundacao para a Ciencia e Tecnologia [SFRH/BD/115407/2016]
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia [SFRH/BD/115407/2016] Funding Source: FCT
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Human intervention on land increases the supply of provisioning ecosystem services but also exerts pressure on ecosystem functioning. The HANPP framework is used to assess these relationships in European agriculture, revealing that livestock systems are significant consumers of provisioning ecosystem services. The remaining NPP in ecosystems after providing society with biomass is essential for ecosystem functioning and should be integrated into future ecosystem service assessments.
Human intervention on land enhances the supply of provisioning ecosystem services, but also exerts pressures on ecosystem functioning. We utilize the Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production (HANPP) framework to assess these relations in European agriculture, for 220 NUTS2 regions. We put a particular focus on individual land system components, i.e. croplands, grasslands, and livestock husbandry and relate associated biomass flows to the potential net primary productivity NPP. For the reference year 2012, we find that 469 g dm/m2/yr (38% of NPPpot) of used biomass were harvested on total agricultural land, and that one tonne of annually harvested biomass is associated with 1.67 tonnes dry matter (dm) of HANPP, ranging from 0.8 to 8.1 tonnes dry matter (dm) across all regions. EU livestock systems are a large consumer of these provisioning ecosystem services, and invoking higher HANPP flows than current HANPP on cropland and grassland within the EU, even exceeding the potential NPP in one fifth of all NUTS2 regions. NPP remaining in ecosystems after provisioning society with biomass is essential for the functioning of ecosystems and is 563 g dm/m2/yr or 46% of NPPpot on all agricultural land. We conclude from our analysis that the HANPP framework provides useful indicators that should be integrated in future ecosystem service assessments.
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