Trade-offs and synergies in ecosystem service values of inland lake wetlands in Central Asia under land use/cover change: A case study on Ebinur Lake, China

The balance between the supply of multiple ecosystem services (ES) and the fulfillment of society demands is a challenge, especially in the tropics where different land use transition phases emerge. These phases are characterized by either a decline (from intact old-growth to logged forests) or a recovery of ES (successional forests, plantations, and agroforestry systems). This highlights the importance of ecosystem service multifunctionality (M) assessments across these land use transition phases as a basis for forest management and conservation. We analyzed synergies and trade-offs of ES to identify potential umbrella ES. We also evaluated the impact of logging activities in the decline of ES and M, and the influence of three recovery phases in the supply of ES and M. We installed 156 inventory plots (1600 m2) in the Ecuadorian Central Amazon and the Chocó. We estimated indicators for provisioning, regulating, supporting services and biodiversity. M indicator was estimated using the multifunctional average approach. Our results show that above-ground carbon stocks can be considered as an umbrella service as it presented high synergetic relations with M and various ES. We observed that logging activities caused a decline of 16–18% on M, with high impacts for timber volume and above-ground carbon stocks, calling for more sustainable practices with stricter post-harvesting control to avoid a higher depletion of ES and M. From the recovery phases it is evident that, successional forests offer the highest level of M, evidencing high potential to recover multiple ES after human disturbance.

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VARIATIONS IN ECOSYSTEM SERVICE VALUES AND LOCAL ECONOMY IN RESPONSE TO LAND USE: A CASE STUDY OF WU'AN, CHINA

Land Degradation and Development ◽

10.1002/ldr.1120 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 24 (3) ◽

pp. 236-249 ◽

Cited By ~ 45

Author(s):

J. J. Zhang ◽

M. C. Fu ◽

H. Zeng ◽

Y. H. Geng ◽

F. P. Hassani

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Ecosystem Service ◽

Local Economy

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Changes in coastal city ecosystem service values based on land use—A case study of Yingkou, China

Land Use Policy ◽

10.1016/j.landusepol.2017.04.021 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 65 ◽

pp. 287-293 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Ying Li ◽

Yu Feng ◽

Xiaorong Guo ◽

Fei Peng

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Ecosystem Service ◽

Coastal City

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Temporal changes in greenspace in a highly urbanized region

Biology Letters ◽

10.1098/rsbl.2011.0025 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 7 (5) ◽

pp. 763-766 ◽

Cited By ~ 107

Author(s):

Martin Dallimer ◽

Zhiyao Tang ◽

Peter R. Bibby ◽

Paul Brindley ◽

Kevin J. Gaston ◽

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Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Urban Areas ◽

National Level ◽

Urban Land Use ◽

Policy Reforms ◽

Trade Offs ◽

Dramatic Shift ◽

Urbanized Region ◽

The Impact

The majority of the world's population now lives in towns and cities, and urban areas are expanding faster than any other land-use type. In response to this phenomenon, two opposing arguments have emerged: whether cities should ‘sprawl’ into the wider countryside, or ‘densify’ through the development of existing urban greenspace. However, these greenspaces are increasingly recognized as being central to the amelioration of urban living conditions, supporting biodiversity conservation and ecosystem service provision. Taking the highly urbanized region of England as a case study, we use data from a variety of sources to investigate the impact of national-level planning policy on temporal patterns in the extent of greenspace in cities. Between 1991 and 2006, greenspace showed a net increase in all but one of 13 cities. However, the majority of this gain occurred prior to 2001, and greenspace has subsequently declined in nine cities. Such a dramatic shift in land use coincides with policy reforms in 2000, which favoured densification. Here, we illustrate the dynamic and policy-responsive nature of urban land use, thereby highlighting the need for a detailed investigation of the trade-offs associated with different mechanisms of urban densification to optimize and secure the diverse benefits associated with greenspaces.

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Response of Ecological Services Value to Land Use Change in the Shiyang River Basin: A Case Study in Wuwei Region

Advanced Materials Research ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.518-523.5116 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 518-523 ◽

pp. 5116-5120

Author(s):

Pei Ji Shi ◽

Xue Bin Zhang ◽

Jun Luo ◽

Xue Min Zhang

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Ecosystem Services ◽

Land Use Change ◽

River Basin ◽

Ecosystem Service ◽

Main Part ◽

Land Use Pattern ◽

Shiyang River Basin ◽

Unused Land

Based on the detailed survey of land use change in Shiyang river basin, referencing Costanza, and Xie et al’ research results of the value of ecosystem services, this article probed the variation of land use and value of ecosystem service in Wuwei region. The results are: from 1997 to 2006, the area of woodland, construction land and garden land are increasing, while farmland, grassland, water and unused land are continuing to decrease. Land-use intensity is gradually increasing, the land use pattern towards to a centralized style. The values of ecosystem services are overall upward, and change faster than ever. The main part of the value of ecosystem service is constituted by the value of grassland, woodland and farmland. So it’s important to control the expansion of urban construction, strength the protection of the water, restore and enhance regional ecosystem services in the future.

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Quantifying economic and biophysical sustainability trade-offs in land use exploration at the regional level: a case study for the Northern Atlantic Zone of Costa Rica

Ecological Modelling ◽

10.1016/s0304-3800(98)00121-5 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 114 (1) ◽

pp. 95-109 ◽

Cited By ~ 27

Author(s):

B.A.M Bouman ◽

R.A Schipper ◽

A Nieuwenhuyse ◽

H Hengsdijk ◽

H.G.P Jansen

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Costa Rica ◽

Regional Level ◽

Trade Offs ◽

Northern Atlantic

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Changes of Land Use and Functions of Ecosystem Service: A Case Study in China

Polish Journal of Environmental Studies ◽

10.15244/pjoes/81696 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 28 (1) ◽

pp. 73-82 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Xuncheng Fan ◽

Jianbin Liu ◽

Jianzhong Chen ◽

Lili Zhao ◽

Wei Hong

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Ecosystem Service

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Variations in ecosystem service value in response to land use/land cover changes in Central Asia over 1995-2035

10.7287/peerj.preprints.27645 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Jiangyue Li ◽

Hongxing Chen ◽

Chi Zhang ◽

Tao Pan

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Land Cover ◽

Central Asia ◽

Ecosystem Service ◽

Water Bodies ◽

Land Cover Changes ◽

Land Use Land Cover ◽

Ecosystem Service Value ◽

Rapid Urbanization ◽

Service Value

Acute farmland expansion and rapid urbanization in Central Asia have accelerated land use/land cover changes, which has significant effect onecosystemservice. However, the spatio-temporal changes in ecosystem service values in Central Asia are not well understood. Here, based on land use products with 300-m resolution for the years of 1995, 2005 and 2015 and transfer methodology, we predicted LUCC for 2025 and 2035 using CA-Markov, assessed changes in ecosystem service value in response to LUCC dynamics, and explored the elasticity for the response of ESV to LULC changes. We found significant expansions of cropland and urban and shrinking of water bodies and bare land during 1995-2035. Overall ESVs had an increasing trend from 1995-2035, which was mainly due to the increasing cropland and construction land. The combined valueofecosystemservices of cropland, grassland, water bodies accounted for over 90% of the total ESVs. However, LULC analysis showed that the area of water body reduced by 21.80% from 1995 to 2015 and continued to decrease by 21.14% from 2015 to 2035, indicating that approximately 63.37 billion US$ of ESVs lost in Central Asia. Biodiversity, food production and water regulation were major service functions, accounting for 80.52% of the total ESVs . Our results demonstrated that theeffective land-usepolicies should be made to control farmland expansion and protect water bodies, grassland and forestland for better sustainable ecosystem services.

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