Physical landscape associations with mapped ecosystem values with implications for spatial value transfer: An empirical study from Norway
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https://hdl.handle.net/10037/8865Date
2015-07-31Type
Journal articleTidsskriftartikkel
Peer reviewed
Abstract
The identification of spatial associations between perceived ecosystem values and physical landscapes is
confronted by a diversity of mapping methods, heterogeneous human populations, and variability in
physical landscape classification systems. This study reviews previous research on spatial associations
and reports new empirical findings from Norway to describe the potential for spatial “value transfer”
methods that extrapolate ecosystem values to other locations. Public participation GIS (PPGIS) survey
methods were implemented in two separate study areas in Norway to identify ecosystem values and to
analyze their spatial association with land cover data. The ecosystem value associations with land cover
were generally consistent with global findings reported elsewhere, with forested areas providing multiple
ecosystem “bundles” supporting both recreation-related and provisioning values. Alternative value
transfer methods were demonstrated using recreation value to compare actual with predicted distributions
using land cover indices derived from value proportions, deviations from expected distribution,
and correlation coefficients with ecosystem value bundles. The use of simple ecosystem value
percentages located within land cover classes provided the best predictive results for value transfer in
this study. The limitations and potential for value transfer methods based on spatial associations between
mapped ecosystem values and physical landscape characteristics are discussed.
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Accepted manuscript version. Published version available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2015.07.005
Publisher
ElsevierCitation
Ecosystem Services, Volume 15, October 2015, Pages 19–34Metadata
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