TY - JOUR
T1 - Connecting plant traits and social perceptions in riparian systems
T2 - Ecosystem services as indicators of thresholds in social-ecohydrological systems
AU - Hough, Moira
AU - Pavao-Zuckerman, Mitchell A.
AU - Scott, Christopher A.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was undertaken with support of the USA National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant No. DEB-1010495; the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI), via project CRN3056, which is supported by the GEO-1128040; the Morris K. and Stewart L. Udall Foundation; and a USDA NIFA Hatch project through the Maryland Agricultural Experimentation Station. The authors would like to thank to Andrea Gerlak, David Chan, Katherine Curl, Ryan Lee, Aloah Pope, as well as the three anonymous reviewers and associate editor, for their feedback on concept and manuscript development, and to the participants of the Sierra Vista stakeholder workshops for their contribution to this research effort.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2018/11
Y1 - 2018/11
N2 - A major challenge in predicting the response of both social-hydrological and social-ecological systems to environmental change is the lack of a causal framework for predicting thresholds of change between the linked social and natural components. Here we propose a social-ecohydrological thresholds (SEHT) framework that integrates social-hydrological, trait-based ecological, and ecosystem services concepts. This approach facilitates the identification of thresholds by treating ecosystem services as indicators of the coupling of social and natural components of the system. Using the San Pedro riparian corridor in Arizona as a case study, we implemented the SEHT framework using ecological research and stakeholder perspectives to identify key drivers and thresholds in the social-ecohydrological system. In this way, we were able to describe expected outcomes of different hydrological change scenarios on the system. Stakeholders provided input on the utility of this information to inform management decisions aimed at mitigating the impacts of environmental change. The SEHT framework provides insight on dynamics of ecosystem services. This paper demonstrates that application of the framework enables the identification of several critical drivers of potential thresholds in ecosystem services that derive from either natural or social components of the overall system. These potential thresholds can guide ecosystem service assessment and monitoring and provide a roadmap for environmental management and the development of management scenarios.
AB - A major challenge in predicting the response of both social-hydrological and social-ecological systems to environmental change is the lack of a causal framework for predicting thresholds of change between the linked social and natural components. Here we propose a social-ecohydrological thresholds (SEHT) framework that integrates social-hydrological, trait-based ecological, and ecosystem services concepts. This approach facilitates the identification of thresholds by treating ecosystem services as indicators of the coupling of social and natural components of the system. Using the San Pedro riparian corridor in Arizona as a case study, we implemented the SEHT framework using ecological research and stakeholder perspectives to identify key drivers and thresholds in the social-ecohydrological system. In this way, we were able to describe expected outcomes of different hydrological change scenarios on the system. Stakeholders provided input on the utility of this information to inform management decisions aimed at mitigating the impacts of environmental change. The SEHT framework provides insight on dynamics of ecosystem services. This paper demonstrates that application of the framework enables the identification of several critical drivers of potential thresholds in ecosystem services that derive from either natural or social components of the overall system. These potential thresholds can guide ecosystem service assessment and monitoring and provide a roadmap for environmental management and the development of management scenarios.
KW - Ecosystem services
KW - Resilience
KW - San Pedro River
KW - Social-ecological systems
KW - Social-hydrological systems
KW - Trait-based ecology
KW - Transboundary
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2018.08.005
DO - 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2018.08.005
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85054424308
SN - 0022-1694
VL - 566
SP - 860
EP - 871
JO - Journal of Hydrology
JF - Journal of Hydrology
ER -