Concept of Ecosystem Carrying Capacity for Marine Ecosystem
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Concept of Ecosystem Carrying Capacity for Marine Ecosystem Management Sinjae Yoo KORDI Ansan, South Korea
Outline v Why a new concept? • Ecosystem services • Interactions, linkages, and tradeoffs v Ecosystem Carrying Capacity • Definition • Properties v Future directions
YSLME Project v Project Title: “Reducing Environment Stress in the Yellow Sea Large Marine Ecosystem”. v Project Objective: Ecosystem-based Environmentally-Sustainable management and Use of the YSLME and its Watershed: Reducing Development Stress and Promoting sustainable Development of the Ecosystem from a Densely Populated, Heavily Urbanised, Industrialised Semi. Enclosed Shelf Sea
Five major environmental problems in the Yellow Sea ecosystem (from TDA report) v Marine environmental pollution v Marine and coastal habitat modification v Change in ecosystem structures and functions v Unsustainable fisheries v Unsustainable mariculture practices
v. Since we identified the major problems, all we have to do is to solve each problem?
Interactions between ecosystems and human societies Climate systems Indirect drivers Direct drivers Ecosystem Supporting Regulating Cultural Services Benefits people get from ecosystems Drivers Factors that change ecosystem structures, rates, and processes H u m a n s o c i e ti e s Provisioning
Provisioning services of YSE v Foods • wild fish, shellfish, algae, etc • Aquaculture v Genetic resources v New materials v Biofuels
Regulation services of YSE v Sewage treatment (water quality regulation) v Disease control v Climate regulation
Supporting services of YSE v Nutrient cycling v Primary and secondary production, and their transfer v Maintenance of biodiversity
Cultural services of YSE v Spiritual/religious values v Aesthetic values v Recreation and ecotourism v Cultural diversity
Multiple drivers Fishing Fisheries Resources Aquaculture pollution Habitat degradation Climate change Ecosystem changes
HUMAN ACTIVITIES Fisheries Land use (agriculture, sewage) CLIMATE CHANGE Construction/ Water use Jellyfish Aquaculture Precipitation Hypoxia Freshwater input Nutrients N: P: Si Food web/ Productivity Temp. Stratification Sea level rise. Eutrophication HAB
Fish catch Overfishing pollution Habitat modification Unhealthy Aquaculture Climate change aquaculture Provisioning services Genetic resources Primary and secondary production Supporting services biofuels Maintenance of biodiversity Nutrient cycling Water Quality regulation Climate Regulating control services Disease control
Necessity of a unified concept v Ecosystems provide many services. v We cannot manage each service separately. • There are linkages and tradeoffs among services. • Not all the drivers are controllable (e. g. , climate change). v There is a limit in ecosystem services and the services are inter-dependent.
v The limit of services will be determined by various ecological processes, which in turn are determined by ecosystem configuration and state. v There is a need for a comprehensive and holistic quantity that describe this capacity of ecosystem to provide its services. v Such capacity will change under different environmental conditions.
Logistic model Verhulst (1838, 1845) K=Carrying Capacity Logistic growth
Carrying Capacity in trout aquaculture Harvest stock (ind. m-2) (Le Cren, 1973) Numbers are in logarithm Initial stock (ind. m-2)
Previous usage of the term ‘Carrying Capacity’ v Human population dynamics (Verhulst, 1838 & 1845) v One of the basic concepts in ecology: r-K selection, v PICES Science Program (1996 -2006): “Climate Change and Carrying Capacity” v Ability of ecosystems to sustain fishery and other living resources, ” (Olsen, et al. , 2006).
Ecosystem Carrying Capacity v. Capacity of an ecosystem to provide various services v. The capacity is determined by ecosystem structure, productivity and habitat integrity. v. This capacity will change as societal requirements increase and climate change accelerates.
ECC through time Time
Determinants of ECC and drivers v Ecosystem structure • Trophic structure (e. g. , fishing, climate change, nutrient budgets) v Biological Productivity • Nutrient budget, climate change (stratification, alteration of freshwater cycle, solar radiation, etc) v Habitats integrity • Water quality (eutrophication, aquaculture) • Habitat destruction and modification • hypoxia
Further questions v How to quantify ECC? • Different approaches for services? üProvisioning services üRegulating üSupporting üCultural • Or unified valuation?
Properties of ECC v How long does an ecosystem can provide its services at certain level? (sustainability) v How much an ecosystem provide that service? (maximum Capacity) v How stable are the services? (resilience)
Future directions for YSLME v Theoretical formulation • Quantification of ECC • Properties of ECC and their behavior v Assessment of ECC of YSLME • Multi-scale approaches are desirable v Modeling of ECC of YSLME based on scenarios • How will it change given the changes in the ecosystem by climate changes • Regional scenarios
Summary v For a unified concept of ecosystem management, ECC is proposed. v ECC can conveys in the time of rapidly changing world. v Further formulation is needed to use the new concept. v Scenarios-modeling in regional scale will be useful for future management.
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