Water Regulation Ecosystem Services of Multifunctional Landscape Dominated by Monoculture Plantations

Yudha Kristanto, Suria Tarigan, Tania June, Enni Dwi Wahjunie and Bambang Sulistyantara
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Yudha Kristanto: Watershed Management Science, Department of Soil Science and Land Resources Management, Faculty of Agriculture, IPB University, Bogor 16680, Indonesia
Suria Tarigan: Department of Soil Science and Land Resources Management, Faculty of Agriculture, IPB University, Bogor 16680, Indonesia
Tania June: Department of Geophysics and Meteorology, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, IPB University, Bogor 16680, Indonesia
Enni Dwi Wahjunie: Department of Soil Science and Land Resources Management, Faculty of Agriculture, IPB University, Bogor 16680, Indonesia
Bambang Sulistyantara: Department of Landscape Architecture, Faculty of Agriculture, IPB University, Bogor 16680, Indonesia

Land, 2022, vol. 11, issue 6, 1-20

Abstract: Meeting the growing demand for agricultural production while preserving water regulation ecosystem services (WRES) is a challenge. One way to preserve WRES is by adopting multifunctional landscape approach. Hence, the main objective was to evaluate the role of forest patches (FP) in preserving WRES in tropical landscapes dominated by oil palm plantations. The SWAT model was used to evaluate the essential WRES, such as water yield (WYLD), soil water (SW), surface runoff (SURQ), groundwater recharge (GWR), and evapotranspiration (AET). Due to a compaction, soils in monoculture plantation have higher bulk density and lower porosity and water retention, which decrease WRES. Conserving FP among oil palms evidently improves WRES, such as decreasing SURQ and rain season WYLD and increasing GWR, SW, AET, and dry season WLYD. FP has sponge-like properties by storing water to increase water availability, and pump-like properties by evaporating water to stabilize the microclimate. Mature oil palm also has pump-like properties to maintain productivity. However, it does not have sponge-like properties that make water use more significant than the stored water. Consequently, a multifunctional landscape could enhance WRES of forest patches and synergize it with provisioning ecosystem services of oil palm plantations.

Keywords: evapotranspiration; groundwater recharge; soil compaction; surface runoff; soil water retention (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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