TY - JOUR
T1 - A battery of soil and plant indicators of nbs environmental performance in the context of global change
AU - Andrés, Pilar
AU - Doblas-Miranda, Enrique
AU - Mattana, Stefania
AU - Molowny-Horas, Roberto
AU - Vayreda, Jordi
AU - Guardiola, Moisès
AU - Pino, Joan
AU - Gordillo, Javier
N1 - Funding Information:
Funding: This research was funded by the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme through the grant to the PHUSICOS Project (https://phusicos.eu/) (EU H2020 Research and Innovation Programme grant agreement No. 776681).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
Copyright:
Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2021/2/2
Y1 - 2021/2/2
N2 - Nature-based solutions (NBSs) for risk reduction produce environmental effects that must be assessed to evaluate their performance. In a context of climate change and growing concern about the loss of biodiversity, indicators informing about ecosystem complexity, resilience and stability are required. NBS projects hardly ever include environmental monitoring programs and, at best, NBS performance is evaluated based on elementary indicators that provide poor information about ecosystem functions and services. Within the framework of the PHUSICOS (EU, H2020) project, a NBS approach is being applied to reduce the hydrometeorological risks (rock falls and snow ava-lanches) that threaten a transnational road and a very populated town in the Pyrenees range. In both cases, the planned actions are modifying soil and vegetation structure and functioning as well as the environmental services they provide. Here we present a set of soil and plant indicators designed to be included in the postoperation monitoring plan of both NBS projects. We provide a description and information about the range of values of every indicator measured in the study sites together with indications about analytical methods and sampling calendar. We discuss the trade-offs between monetary cost, expertise requirements and meaningfulness of the indicators.
AB - Nature-based solutions (NBSs) for risk reduction produce environmental effects that must be assessed to evaluate their performance. In a context of climate change and growing concern about the loss of biodiversity, indicators informing about ecosystem complexity, resilience and stability are required. NBS projects hardly ever include environmental monitoring programs and, at best, NBS performance is evaluated based on elementary indicators that provide poor information about ecosystem functions and services. Within the framework of the PHUSICOS (EU, H2020) project, a NBS approach is being applied to reduce the hydrometeorological risks (rock falls and snow ava-lanches) that threaten a transnational road and a very populated town in the Pyrenees range. In both cases, the planned actions are modifying soil and vegetation structure and functioning as well as the environmental services they provide. Here we present a set of soil and plant indicators designed to be included in the postoperation monitoring plan of both NBS projects. We provide a description and information about the range of values of every indicator measured in the study sites together with indications about analytical methods and sampling calendar. We discuss the trade-offs between monetary cost, expertise requirements and meaningfulness of the indicators.
KW - Environmental services
KW - Hydrogeological risks
KW - NBS monitoring
KW - Plant indicators
KW - Rock falls
KW - Snow avalanches
KW - Soil bioindicators
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U2 - https://doi.org/10.3390/su13041913
DO - https://doi.org/10.3390/su13041913
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85100904090
VL - 13
SP - 1
EP - 18
JO - Sustainability
JF - Sustainability
SN - 2071-1050
IS - 4
M1 - 1913
ER -
