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*Result*: Climate land use and other drivers' impacts on island ecosystem services: A global review.

Title:
Climate land use and other drivers' impacts on island ecosystem services: A global review.
Authors:
Moustakas A; Natural History Museum of Crete, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece. Electronic address: arismoustakas@gmail.com., Zemah-Shamir S; School of Sustainability, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Reichman University, Herzliya, Israel., Tase M; Department of Tourism, Aleksander Moisiu University, Durrës, Albania., Zotos S; Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, Open University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus., Demirel N; Institute of Marine Sciences and Management, Istanbul University, Turkey., Zoumides C; Energy, Environment and Water Research Center (EEWRC), The Cyprus Institute, Nicosia, Cyprus., Christoforidi I; Department of Plant Production Experimental farm, Hellenic Mediterranean University, Heraklion, Greece., Dindaroglu T; Department of Forest Engineering, Karadeniz Technical University, Trabzon, Turkey., Albayrak T; Department of Biology, Budur Mehmet Akif Ersoy University, Burdur, Turkey; Department of Mathematics and Science Education, Buca Faculty of Education, Dokuz Eylül University, İzmir, Turkey., Ayhan CK; Department of Landscape Architecture, Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Canakkale, Turkey., Fois M; Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy., Manolaki P; Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, Open University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus., Sandor AD; HUN-REN-UVMB Climate Change: New Blood-Sucking Parasites and Vector-Borne Pathogens Research Group, Budapest, Hungary; University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca, Cluj-Napoca, Romania., Sieber I; Kassel Institute for Sustainability, Kassel University, Kassel, Germany., Stamatiadou V; Department of Marine Sciences, University of the Aegean, Mytilene, Greece., Tzirkalli E; Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, Open University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus., Vogiatzakis IN; Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, Open University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus; Department of Soil, Plant and Food Sciences, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy., Zemah-Shamir Z; Department of Marine Biology, Leon H. Charney School of Marine Sciences, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel., Zittis G; Climate and Atmosphere Research Center (CARE-C), The Cyprus Institute, Nicosia, Cyprus. Electronic address: g.zittis@cyi.ac.cy.
Source:
The Science of the total environment [Sci Total Environ] 2025 Apr 10; Vol. 973, pp. 179147. Date of Electronic Publication: 2025 Mar 19.
Publication Type:
Journal Article
Language:
English
Journal Info:
Publisher: Elsevier Country of Publication: Netherlands NLM ID: 0330500 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1879-1026 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 00489697 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Sci Total Environ Subsets: MEDLINE; PubMed not MEDLINE
Imprint Name(s):
Original Publication: Amsterdam, Elsevier.
Comments:
Erratum in: Sci Total Environ. 2025 May 1;975:179244. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2025.179244.. (PMID: 40187959)
Contributed Indexing:
Keywords: Biodiversity; Climate change; Ecosystem services; Islands; Land-use changes; Machine learning
Entry Date(s):
Date Created: 20250320 Latest Revision: 20250405
Update Code:
20260130
DOI:
10.1016/j.scitotenv.2025.179147
PMID:
40112548
Database:
MEDLINE

*Further Information*

*Islands are diversity hotspots and vulnerable to environmental degradation, climate variations, land use changes and societal crises. These factors can exhibit interactive impacts on ecosystem services. The study reviewed a large number of papers on the climate change-islands-ecosystem services topic worldwide. Potential inclusion of land use changes and other drivers of impacts on ecosystem services were sequentially also recorded. The study sought to investigate the impacts of climate change, land use change, and other non-climatic driver changes on island ecosystem services. Explanatory variables examined were divided into two categories: environmental variables and methodological ones. Environmental variables include sea zone geographic location, ecosystem, ecosystem services, climate, land use, other driver variables, Methodological variables include consideration of policy interventions, uncertainty assessment, cumulative effects of climate change, synergistic effects of climate change with land use change and other anthropogenic and environmental drivers, and the diversity of variables used in the analysis. Machine learning and statistical methods were used to analyze their effects on island ecosystem services. Negative climate change impacts on ecosystem services are better quantified by land use change or other non-climatic driver variables than by climate variables. The synergy of land use together with climate changes is modulating the impact outcome and critical for a better impact assessment. Analyzed together, there is little evidence of more pronounced effects for a specific sea zone, ecosystem, or ecosystem service. Climate change impacts may be underestimated due to the use of a single climate variable deployed in most studies. Policy interventions exhibit low classification accuracy in quantifying impacts indicating insufficient efficacy or integration in the studies.
(Copyright © 2025 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.)*

*Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.*