Journal article
Spatially explicit perceptions of ecosystem services and land cover change in forested regions of Borneo
NK Abram, E Meijaard, M Ancrenaz, RK Runting, JA Wells, D Gaveau, AS Pellier, K Mengersen
Ecosystem Services | ELSEVIER | Published : 2014
Abstract
Spatially explicit information on local perceptions of ecosystem services is needed to inform land use planning within rapidly changing landscapes. In this paper we spatially modelled local people's use and perceptions of benefits from forest ecosystem services in Borneo, from interviews of 1837 people in 185 villages. Questions related to provisioning, cultural/spiritual, regulating and supporting ecosystem services derived from forest, and attitudes towards forest conversion. We used boosted regression trees (BRTs) to combine interview data with social and environmental predictors to understand spatial variation of perceptions across Borneo. Our results show that people use a variety of pr..
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Funding Acknowledgements
We would also like to thank the Arcus Foundation, Center for International Forestry Research and United States Agency for International Development and ARC Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions for financial support. We thank The Nature Conservancy for use of their data, SarVision for sharing their 2010 land cover classification, The Bruno Manser Foundation and AidEnvironment for concession data from Sarawak. We would like to thank Dr. Joseph Tzanopoulos for advice and assistance in the early stages of analysis. We would like to thank two reviewers and Chief-in Editor for helpful comments; and sincerest of gratitude to the many respondents who kindly volunteered information in the interview surveys.