Spatial congruence between biodiversity and ecosystem services in a forest landscape in southern Chile: basis for conservation planning

dc.creatorJames Rodríguez-Echeverry
dc.creatorCristian Echeverría
dc.creatorCarlos Oyarzún
dc.creatorLuis Morales
dc.date2017
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T02:36:43Z
dc.descriptionThere is a need for a better understanding on how biodiversity and ecosystem services are spatially related and assess to what extent the conservation of biodiversity will ensure the provision of services. In the Río Cruces watershed (Chile) the spatial congruence between biodiversity and water supply, erosion control and soil accumulation services was assessed using spatially explicit models, geographically weighted regression and overlap analyses. Biodiversity registered a positive spatial relationship with the three ecosystem services. The local R 2 value explained up to 95 %, 68 % and 37 % of the variance for soil accumulation, water supply and erosion control, respectively. High spatial congruence (> 67 %) was registered between biodiversity and ecosystem services hotspots. Our study recommends that decision makers develop plans and share efforts for conservation of biodiversity and ecosystem services in 43 subwatersheds, which are 16.4 % of the subwatersheds studied. We suggest that these efforts must be an integral part of environmental policies that need to be generated by the Chilean government.
dc.formatapplication/pdf
dc.identifier0304-8799
dc.identifierhttps://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=173154749007
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/420362
dc.languageen
dc.publisherUniversidad Austral de Chile
dc.relationhttp://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=1731
dc.rightsBosque
dc.sourceBosque (Chile) Num.3 Vol.38
dc.subjectAgrociencias
dc.titleSpatial congruence between biodiversity and ecosystem services in a forest landscape in southern Chile: basis for conservation planning
dc.typeartículo científico

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