期刊
LAND USE POLICY
卷 120, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2022.106277
关键词
Landscape connectivity; Biodiversity; Land use and cover changes; Modeling; Participatory approach; Environmental policies
资金
- ALICE project [EAPA_261/2016]
- Atlantic Area: European Regional Development Fund through the INTERREG Atlantic Area 2020 Transnational Cooperation Program
- BiodivERsA COFUND program
- EU [813904]
- ANR
- MINECO and BELSPO
This article discusses the application of BGIN policies in the Brittany region of France, evaluating their impact on biodiversity by defining and analyzing future land-use and land-cover changes. The results demonstrate that the effective implementation of BGIN policies can protect landscape connectivity in urban ecosystems, but may be threatened by agricultural intensification.
Urbanization and agricultural intensification are the main drivers of biodiversity losses through multiple stressors, especially habitat fragmentation, isolation and loss. Designing Blue and Green Infrastructure Networks (BGIN) has been recommended as a potential tool for land-use planning to increase ecosystem services while preserving biodiversity. All municipalities in France are required to perform BGIN planning. This article focuses on the Couesnon watershed (Brittany, France) and the participatory process used to define and analyze five possible pathways of future land-use and land-cover changes that included implementation of BGINs. Impacts on biodiversity were estimated by quantifying the change in landscape connectivity of woodlands, grasslands and wetlands. The effectiveness of BGIN policies was assessed by comparing current landscape connectivity (2018) to those in possible futures. Landscape connectivity referred to functional connectivity for three indicator species (Abax parallelepipedus, Maniola jurtina and Arvicola sapidus) across three landscape features: woodlands, grass-lands and wetlands, respectively. Results allowed impacts of urban and agricultural land-use changes to be identified in terms of extent and quality. If BGIN policies were applied effectively to control the expansion of gray infrastructure, they would help increase the area and the quality of grassland and woodland connectivity by no more than 2%. Agricultural land-use and land-cover changes could have more impact on the extent of grassland (-82% to +38%) and wetland (-49% to +47%) connectivity. Current and future trends for hedgerows implied a decrease in woodland connectivity of 9.8-33.8%. Impacts on the quality of landscape connectivity is not pro-portional with the extent, as a decrease of the latter can have relatively more negative impacts on the former, and inversely. The study highlights that the BGIN strategy can preserve landscape connectivity effectively in urban ecosystems, where human density is higher, but can be threatened by agricultural intensification.
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