ResNet Theme 3

Fortin Lab

July 23, 2020

Peter R.

Monitoring biodiversity and ecosystem services in production landscapes

General characteristics

• Multi-disciplinary, multi-sectoral project
• Diversity and gender equality, indigenous voices
• Across Canada (six landscapes) & three themes
• Multi-scale (time & space) scope
• Emphasis on working/production landscapes
• Develop knowledge and tools to inform and improve decision making
• Theme 3: 2 PDF, 2 PhD, 4 UG

Local

Regional

Time

Theme 3 deliverables

• Advance theory, stats & code/tools for ES science
• Develop spatially explicit decision-support systems for ES management
• Develop a network framework to monitor ES & determine high risk areas in terms of ES loss
  • Account for uncertainty
• Develop a prototype dashboard for national ES monitoring
• Create ES monitoring guidelines/protocols, papers

Key concepts

• Spatial Ecological Network (SEN) Models
  • Patches as nodes, flows as links/relationships
  • SEN structure & dynamics
• Socio-Economic (SE) context
  • SE spatial data including admin boundaries
• Multi-scale analyses
  • across time, space and L1-L6
  • sensitivity analyses

Notes & questions - I

• How to define a ES? How to define and detect ES changes
• Criteria for choosing relevant EESV? How & how often to measure EESV?
• Criteria for defining landscape nodes & links
• How to model ES feedbacks, trade-offs
• Guidelines and tools for monitoring ES

Notes & questions - II

• Each landscape modeled as a SEN, with its own nodes & links
• Are we also working on attribution stats, causal network models?
• Are we managing data as part of Theme 3?
• Theme 3 Data/process flow considerations (see fig.)
• Our methods need to be general enough to apply to all landscapes but specific enough to be useful at each landscape

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