PERCEVAL: Ecosystem service provisioning in the Grand-Est, France

Ecosystem services are at the forefront of ecosystem management, and are a featured component of each research themes of the “Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation, et l’Environnement” (INRAE). The national research program “Transition en Territoires de l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement” (TETRAE) represents INRAE’s long-term commitment to the sustainable management of agricultural, ecological, and urban environments. The project “Perceptions et valorisation des services écosystémiques en forêt” (PERCEVAL) is funded under the TETRAE program. Specifically, it seeks to assess potential markets for biodiversity and ecosystem services in forests in the Grand-Est region of France, and to develop a digital platform where economic partners and local stakeholders can access its findings to better inform their management decisions. In this dataset, we provide a baseline database of the supply or provisioning of ecosystem services in the Grand Est region of France. Specifically, this data set estimates a set of eighteen indicators of seven ecosystem services, which include agriculture production potential, biodiversity, aboveground carbon storage, livestock grazing potential, net ecosystem productivity, pollination potential, and soil loss by water erosion. The analysis uses a mix of land use and land cover data, established relationships between ecosystem services and land use/reflectance data, and published maps of ecosystem service supply from the scientific literature. We measure the interactions – how a change in one service leads to a change in another – between ecosystem services considered in the study, and the contributions of public forests and parks/reserves to the overall provisioning of ecosystem services in the Grand Est. This data set includes all the code and spatial GIS layers needed to construct the final data set of ecosystem service provisioning. Metadata and a step-by-step guide to transforming the spatial data, aligning and resampling the rasters, plotting the results, and measuring the interactions between services are embedded in the code. An associated technical document for the data set in preparation.