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Relevance of Intermittent Rivers and Streams in Agricultural Landscape and Their Impact on Provided Ecosystem Services—A Mediterranean Case Study

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  • Tatiana Kaletová

    (Faculty of Horticulture and Landscape Engineering, Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra, 94976 Nitra, Slovakia)

  • Luis Loures

    (Polytechnic Institute of Portalegre (IPP), 7300 Portalegre, Portugal
    VALORIZA—Research Centre for Endogenous Resource Valorization, 7300 Portalegre, Portugal
    Research Centre for Tourism, Sustainability and Well-being (CinTurs), University of Algarve, 8005-139 Faro, Portugal
    Institute of Research on Territorial Governance and Inter-Organizational Cooperation, 41-300 Katowice, Poland)

  • Rui Alexandre Castanho

    (VALORIZA—Research Centre for Endogenous Resource Valorization, 7300 Portalegre, Portugal
    Research Centre for Tourism, Sustainability and Well-being (CinTurs), University of Algarve, 8005-139 Faro, Portugal
    Environmental Resources Analysis Research Group (ARAM), University of Extremadura, 06006 Badajoz, Spain
    Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of Dąbrowa Górnicza, 41-300 Katowice, Poland)

  • Elena Aydin

    (Faculty of Horticulture and Landscape Engineering, Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra, 94976 Nitra, Slovakia)

  • José Telo da Gama

    (Polytechnic Institute of Portalegre (IPP), 7300 Portalegre, Portugal
    VALORIZA—Research Centre for Endogenous Resource Valorization, 7300 Portalegre, Portugal
    Departamento de Edafologia, UNEX—Universidad da Extremadura, 06006 Badajoz, Spain)

  • Ana Loures

    (Polytechnic Institute of Portalegre (IPP), 7300 Portalegre, Portugal
    VALORIZA—Research Centre for Endogenous Resource Valorization, 7300 Portalegre, Portugal)

  • Amélie Truchy

    (Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SE-75007 Uppsala, Sweden)

Abstract

Ecosystem services (ES), as an interconnection of the landscape mosaic pieces, along with temporal rivers (IRES) are an object of research for environmental planners and ecological economists, among other specialists. This study presents (i) a review on the importance of IRES and the services they can provide to agricultural landscapes; (ii) a classification tool to assess the impact of IRES to provide ES by agricultural landscapes; (iii) the application of the proposed classification to the Caia River in order to identify the importance of this intermittent river for its surrounding agricultural landscape. The classification of the ES follows the Common International Classification of Ecosystem (CICES) classification that was adapted for the purposes of this study. Firstly, the list of ES provided by agricultural landscape was elaborated. In the next step, we assessed the potential of IRES to provide ES. Next, IRES impacts to ES within the agricultural landscape were evaluated according to observations from the conducted field monitoring in the study area. This study focuses on the relevance of the intermittent Caia River—a transboundary river in Spain and Portugal—and its ephemeral tributaries in the agricultural landscape. Our study estimates that each hydrological phase of IRES increases the ES provided by the agricultural landscape. However, the dry phase can potentially have negative impacts on several services. The intensification of the agricultural sector is the main provision of the water resource within the Caia River basin, but we were able to identify several other ES that were positively impacted. The present study is in line with the conclusions of other authors who state that IRES constitute a valuable resource which should not be underestimated by society.

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  • Tatiana Kaletová & Luis Loures & Rui Alexandre Castanho & Elena Aydin & José Telo da Gama & Ana Loures & Amélie Truchy, 2019. "Relevance of Intermittent Rivers and Streams in Agricultural Landscape and Their Impact on Provided Ecosystem Services—A Mediterranean Case Study," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 16(15), pages 1-16, July.
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