Refining the Tiered Approach for Mapping and Assessing Ecosystem Services at the Local Scale: A Case Study in a Rural Landscape in Northern Germany

摘要: Spatially explicit assessments of ecosystem services (ES) potentials are a key component in supporting sustainable land use management. The ES matrix method is commonly used approach as it allows for comparably fast, comprehensible and accessible assessment. As often based on use/land cover data (LULC) with no spatial variability, main critique that the results fail to assess variability at landscape levels, which limits reliability outputs planning applications. By using case study area Bornhoved northern Germany, we analyzed three assessment methods combine expert judgments, LULC different resolutions condition indicators, order find required resolution mapping local scale. To quantify map discrepancies, structural similarity index (SSIM) differences mean, variance covariance between maps. We found led relatively small difference outcomes, regulation maintenance more affected than other categories. For most regulation, cultural ES, our indicate only proxies not suitable quantitative they cannot sufficiently heterogeneity capacities arise from conditions.