Spatial dynamics in people-wetland association: an assessment of rural dependency on ecosystem services extended by Purb
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Spatial dynamics in people‑wetland association: an assessment of rural dependency on ecosystem services extended by Purbasthali Wetland, West Bengal Mehedi Hasan Mandal1 · Arindam Roy2 · Giyasuddin Siddique2 Received: 27 September 2019 / Accepted: 10 November 2020 © Springer Nature B.V. 2020
Abstract Endowed with diverse ecological resources, the flood plain wetlands of the lower Gangetic delta not only serve the natural environment but also benefit the nearby human groups. Rapid Assessment of Wetland Ecosystem Services (RAWES) approach has been employed to assess the ecosystem services extended by Purbasthali Oxbow Lake. A total 37 ecosystem services, grouped into 4 major categories (10 provisioning, 9 regulating, 7 cultural and 11 supporting) have been identified that have directly or indirectly influenced the lifestyle of the native villagers. With the help of RAWES questionnaire and calculation spreadsheet numeric transformation of ecosystem services has been conducted by Ecosystem Service Index. The results unveil existence of spatial dynamics in ecosystem services and the wetland utilization pattern by the rural folks of five adjacent villages, namely Purbasthali, Chupi, Kashthashali, Ramchandrapur and Indrakpur. Subsequently, Kruskal–Wallis test reveals significant village-level variation in utilization pattern of the services (The p value is .0005. The result is significant at p
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