Assessing land use change and its impact on ecosystem services in northern Thailand

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2016, Pages

  Arunyawat, Sunsanee ^a   Shrestha, Rajendra P ^a  

^a ASIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Ecosystem services; InVEST model; Land use change; Land use impact; Northern Thailand

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; CULTIVATION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; FOREST COVER; GIS; LAND USE CHANGE; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; PLANTATION; RUBBER; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; TRADE-OFF; VULNERABILITY; WATERSHED;

THAILAND;

EID: 84983784351     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20711050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su8080768     Document Type: Article

References (62)

1. Srivastava, P.; Kumar, U. Growth in the greater Mekong subregion in 2000-2010 and future prospects. In Proceeding of International conference on GMS 2020: Balancing Economic Growth and Environmental Sustainability, Bankgog, Thailand, 20-21 February 2012; pp. 12-41.
2. Minna, H. Forest conflict in Thailand: Northern minorities in focus. Environ. Manag. 2009, 43, 381-395.
3. Trisurat, Y.; Alkemade, R.; Verburg, P.H. Projecting land-use change and its consequences for biodiversity in Northern Thailand. Environ. Manag. 2010, 45, 626-639.
4. Lambin, E.F.; Geist, H.J.; Lepers, E. Dynamics of land-use and land-cover change in tropical regions. Ann. Rev. Environ. Resour. 2003, 28, 205-241.
5. Carlson, K.M.; Curran, L.M.; Ratnasai, D. Committed carbon emissions, deforestation, and community land conversion from oil palm plantation expansion inWest Kalimantan, Indonesia. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 2012, 109, 7559-7564.
6. Wösten, J.H.M.; Clymans, E.; Page, S.E.; Rieley, J.O.; Limin, S.H. Peat-water interrelationships in a tropical peatland ecosystem in Southeast Asia. Catena 2008, 73, 212-224.
7. Bosselmann, A.S. Mediating factors of land use change among coffee farmers in a biological corridor. Ecol. Econ. 2012, 80, 79-88.
8. Lambin, E.F.; Rounsevell, M.D.A.; Geist, H.J. Are agricultural land-use models able to predict changes in land-use intensity? Agric. Ecosyst. Environ. 2000, 82, 321-331.
9. Santiphop, T.; Shrestha, R.P.; Hazarika, M.K. An analysis of factors affecting agricultural land use patterns and livelihood strategies of farm households in Kanchanaburi Province, Thailand. J. Land Use Sci. 2012, 7, 331-348.
10. Wannasai, N.; Shrestha, R.P. Role of land tenure security and farm household characteristics on land use change in the Prasae Watershed, Thailand. Land Use Pol. 2007, 25, 214-224.
11. Poppenbor, P.; Koellner, T. Do attitudes toward ecosystem services determine agricultural land use practices: An analysis of farmers' decision-making in a South Korean watershed? Land Use Pol. 2013, 31, 422-429.
12. Ecosystems and Human Well-Being: Synthesis. Available online: http://www.millenniumassessment.org/ documents/document.356.aspx.pdf (accessed on 18 June 2016).
13. Tola, G.A.; Lowe, B.; Feyera, S.; Kristoffer, H. Balancing ecosystem services and disservices: Smallholder farmers' use and management of forest and trees in an agricultural landscape in southwestern Ethiopia. Ecol. Soc. 2014, 19, 30.
14. Wade, A.S.I.; Asase, A.; Hadley, P.; Mason, J.; Ofori-Frimpong, K.; Preece, D.; Spring, N.; Norris, K. Management strategies for maximizing carbon storage and tree species diversity in cocoa-growing landscapes. Agric. Ecosyst. Environ. 2010, 138, 324-334.
15. Van Jaarsveld, A.S.; Biggs, R.; Scholes, R.; Bohensky, E.; Reyers, B.; Lynam, T.; Musvoto, C.; Fabricius, C. Measuring conditions and trends in ecosystem services at multiple scales: The Southern African Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (SAfMA) experience. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. B 2005, 360, 425-441.
16. Chan, K.M.A.; Shaw, M.R.; Cameron, D.R.; Underwood, E.C.; Daily, G.C. Conservation planning for ecosystem services. Public Libr. Sci. Biol. 2006, 4, 2138-2152.
17. Egoh, B.; Rouget, M.; Reyers, B.; Knight, A.T.; Cowling, R.M.; van Jaarsveld, A.S.; Welz, A. Integrating ecosystem services into conservation assessments: A review. Ecol. Econ. 2007, 63, 714-721.
18. Egoh, B.; Reyers, B.; Rouget, M.; Richardson, D.M.; Le Maitre, D.C.; van Jaarsveld, A.S. Mapping ecosystem services for planning and management. Agric. Ecosyst. Environ. 2008, 127, 135-140.
19. Egoh, B.; Reyers, B.; Rouget, M.; Bode, M.; Richardson, D.M. Spatial congruence between biodiversity and ecosystem services in South Africa. Biol. Conserv. 2009, 142, 553-562.
20. Nelson, E.; Mendoza, G.; Regetz, J.; Polasky, S.; Tallis, H.; Cameron, D.; Chan, K.; Dailey, G.; Goldstein, J.; Kareiva, P.; et al. Modeling multiple ecosystem services, biodiversity conservation, commodity production and tradeoffs at landscape scales. Front. Ecol. Environ. 2009, 7, 4-11.
21. Boonyanuphap, J.; Sakurai, K.; Tanaka, S. Soil nutrient status under upland farming practice in the Lower Northern Thailand. Tropics 2007, 16, 215-231.
22. Sharp, R.; Tallis, H.T.; Ricketts, T.; Guerry, A.D.; Wood, S.A.; Nelson, E.; Ennaanay, D.; Wolny, S.; Olwero, N.; Vigerstol, K.; et al. InVEST 3.0 User's Guide; The Natural Capital Project: Standford, CA, USA, 2015.
23. Polasky, S.; Nelson, E.; Pennington, D.; Johnson, K. The impact of land-use change on ecosystem services, biodiversity and returns to landowners: A case study in the state of Minnesota. Environ. Resour. Econ. 2011, 48, 219-242.
24. Tallis, H.T.; Ricketts, T.; Guerry, A.D.; Wood, S.A.; Sharp, R.; Nelson, E.; Ennaanay, D.; Wolny, S.; Olwero, N.; Vigerstol, K.; et al. InVEST 2.2.1 User's Guide; The Natural Capital Project: Standford, CA, USA, 2011.
25. Shoyama, K.; Yamagata, Y. Predicting land use change for biodiversity conservation and climate change mitigation and its effect on ecosystem services in a watershed in Japan. Ecosyst. Serv. 2014, 8, 25-34.
26. Guardiola-Claramonte, M.; Troch, P.A.; Ziegler, A.D.; Giambelluca, T.W.; Durcik, M.; Vogler, J.B.; Nullet, M.A. Hydrologic effects of the expansion of rubber (Hevea brasiliensis) in a tropical catchment. Ecohydrology 2010, 3, 306-314.
27. Hamilton, L.S. Forest and Water: A Thematic Study Prepared in the Frame- Work of the Global Forest Resources Assessment 2005; FAO: Rome, Italy, 2008.
28. Suryatmojo, H.; Fujimoto, M.; Yamakawa, Y.; Kosugi, K.; Mizuyama, T. Water balance changes in the tropical rainforest with intensive management system. Int. J. Sustain. Future Hum. Secur. 2013, 1, 56-62.
29. Saxton, K.E.; Rawls, W.J. Soil Water characteristic estimates by texture and organic matter for hydrologic solutions. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 2006.
30. Zhang, L.; Hickel, K.; Dawes, W.R.; Chiew, F.H.S.; Western, A.W.; Briggs, P.R. A rational function approach for estimating mean annual evapotranspiration. Water Resour. Res. 2004.
31. Fu, B.P. On the calculation of the evaporation from land surface. Sci. Atmos. Sin. 1981, 5, 23-31.
32. Donohue, R.J.; Roderick, M.L.; McVicar, T.R. Roots, storms and soil pores: Incorporating key ecohydrological processes into Budyko's hydrological model. J. Hydrol. 2012, 436-437, 35-50.
33. Yang, H.; Yang, D.; Lei, Z.; Sun, F. New analytical derivation of the mean annual water-energy balance equation. Water Resour. Res. 2008.
34. Lane, L.J.; Nichols, M.H.; Levick, L.R.; Kidwell, M.R. A simulation model for erosion and sediment yield at the hill slope scale. In Landscape Erosion and Evolution Modeling; Harmon, R.S.; Doe, W.W.; Eds.; Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers: New York, NY, USA, 2001; pp. 201-237.
35. Perrine, H.; Rebecca, C.; Sarah, S.; Carina, M. A new approach to modeling the sediment retention service (InVEST 3.0): Case study of the Cape Fear catchment, North Carolina, USA. Sci. Total Environ. 2015, 524-525, 166-177.
36. Martin-Ortega, J.; Ojea, E.; Roux, C. Payments for Ecosystem Services in Latin America: A literature review and conceptual model. Ecosyst. Serv. 2013, 6, 122-132.
37. Kepner, W.G.; Ramsey, M.M.; Brown, E.S.; Jarchow, M.E.; Dickinson, K.J.; Mark, A.F. Hydrologic futures: Using scenario analysis to evaluate impacts of forecasted land use change on hydrologic services. ESA J. 2012, 3, 1-25.
38. Predicting Rainfall Erosion Losses-A Guide to Conservation Planning. Available online: http://naldc.nal. usda.gov/download/CAT79706928/PDF (accessed on 12 February 2016).
39. Measuring and Monitoring Terrestrial Carbon: The State of the Science and Implications for Policy Makers. Available online: http://www.forestcarbonasia.org/other-publications/measuring-andmonitoring- terrestrial-carbon-the-state-of-the-science-and-implications-for-policy-makers-2/ (accessed on 23 September 2015).
40. Goldstein, J.H.; Caldarone, G.; Duarte, T.K.; Ennaanay, D.; Hannahs, N.; Mendoza, G.; Polasky, S.; Wolny, S.; Daily, G.C. Integrating ecosystem-service tradeoffs into land use decisions. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 2012.
41. Qiu, J.X.; Turner, M.G. Spatial interactions among ecosystem services in an urbanizing agricultural watershed. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 2013.
42. Chattanong, P.; Roongreang, P. Above ground biomass and litter productivity in relation with carbon and nitrogen content in various landuse small watershed, Lower Northern Thailand. J. Bio. & Env. Sci. 2013, 3, 121-132.
43. Guidelines for Assessment Report on Environmental Impact: Greenhouse Gas Management; Department of Forest Management: Bangkok, Thailand, 2011. (In Thai)
44. 2006 IPCC (International Panel on Climate Change) Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories. AFOLU (Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use). Available online: http://www.ipcc-nggip.iges.or.jp/ public/2006gl/vol4.html (accessed on 23 September 2015).
45. Amnat, C.; Natthaphol, L. Carbon stock and emission in dry evergreen forest, reforestation and agricultural soils. In Proceeding of the Climate Change Conference on Forestry, Bangkok, Thailand, 4-5 August 2005; pp. 95-105. (In Thai).
46. Ladawan, P. Potential to Reduce Emission in Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use; The Thailand Research Fund: Bangkok, Thailand, 2011. (In Thai)
47. Mckinney, M.L. Urbanization, biodiversity, and conservation. BioScience 2002, 52, 883-890.
48. Andrew, F.B.; Denis, A.S. Habitat fragmentation and landscape change. In Conservation Biology for All; Oxford University Press: Oxford, New York, 2010; pp. 88-104.
49. Forman, R.T.T. Land Mosaics: The Ecology of Landscapes and Regions; Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK, 1995.
50. Lindenmayer, D.; Hobbs, R.; Montague-Drake, R.; Alexandra, J.; Bennett, A.; Burgman, M.; Cae, P.; Calhoun, A.; Cramer, V.; Cullen, P. A checklist for ecological management of landscapes for conservation. Ecol. Lett. 2008, 11, 78-91.
51. Mansoor, D.K.L.; Marty, D.M.; Eric, C.C.; Lanier, L.N. Quantifying and mapping multiple ecosystem services change in West Africa. Agric. Ecosyst. Environ. 2013, 165, 6-18.
52. Fuller, T.; Sanchez-Cordero, V.; Illoldi-Rangel, P.; Linaje, M.; Sarkar, S. The cost of postponing biodiversity conservation in Mexico. Biol. Conserv. 2007, 134, 593-600.
53. Martinez, M.L.; Perez-Maqueo, O.; Vazquez, G.; Castillo-Campos, G.; Garcia-Franco, J.; Mehltreter, K.; Equihua, M.; Landgrave, R. Effects of land use change on biodiversity and ecosystem services in tropical montane cloud forests of Mexico. For. Ecol. Manag. 2009, 258, 1856-1863.
54. Reyers, B.; O'Farrell, P.; Cowling, R.; Egoh, B.; Le Maitre, D.; Vlok, J. Ecosystem services, land-cover change, and stakeholders: Finding a sustainable foothold for a semiarid biodiversity hotspot. Ecol. Soc. 2009, 14, 38.
55. Forest Management in Thailand. Available online: http://www.forest.go.th/foreign/images/stories/ FOREST%20MANAGEMENT%20IN%20THAILAND.pdf (accessed on 17 July 2016).
56. Bosch, J.M.; Hewlett, J.D. A review of catchment experiments to determine the effects of vegetation changes on water yield and evapotranspiration. J. Hydrol. 1982, 55, 3-23.
57. Calder, I.R. The Hydrological impact of land-use change. In Proceedings of the Conference on Priorities for Water Resources Allocation and Management, Natural Resources and Engineering Advisers Conference, Southampton, UK, July 1992; United Kingdom Overseas Development Administration: London, UK; pp. 91-101. Available online: http://www.ircwash.org/sites/default/files/210-93PR-11967.pdf (accessed on 2 February 2016).
58. Im, S.; Kim, H.; Kim, C.; Jang, C. Assessing the impacts of land use changes on watershed hydrology using MIKE SHE. Environ. Geol. 2009, 57, 231-239.
59. Wijesekara, G.N.; Gupta, A.; Valeo, C.; Hasbani, J.-G.; Qiao, Y.; Delaney, P.; Marceau, D.J. Assessing the impact of future land-use changes on hydrological processes in the Elbow River watershed in southern Alberta, Canada. J. Hydrol. 2012, 412-413, 220-232.
60. Du, J.; Qian, L.; Rui, H.; Zuo, T.; Zheng, D.; Xu, Y.; Xu, C.-Y. Assessing the effects of urbanization on annual runoff and flood events using an integrated hydrological modeling system for Qinhuai River basin, China. J. Hydrol. 2012, 464-465, 127-139.
61. Muñoz-Rojas, M.; De la Rosa, D.; Zavala, L.M.; Jordan, A.; Anaya-Romero, M. Changes in land cover and vegetation carbon stocks in Andalusia, Southern Spain (1956-2007). Sci. Total Environ. 2011, 409, 2796-2806.
62. Vigerstol, K.L.; Aukema, J.E. A comparison of tools for modeling freshwater ecosystem services. J. Environ. Manag. 2011, 92, 2403-2409.