Empirical validation of the InVEST water yield ecosystem service model at a national scale

Ecosystem services are characterized by region and scale, and contribute to human welfare. Taking Yantai city, a typical bay city in China, as the example, its three representative ecosystem services: food supply (FS), carbon sequestration (CS) and water yield (WY) were chosen as study targets. Based on analyzation of six different aspects of the supply and variation characteristic of demand, this study tried to propose advices for comprehensive improvement of ecosystem services for spatial optimization. The results showed that: (1) ecosystem services supply was strong in central and southern areas of Yantai, while the northern coastal areas were relatively weak; (2) synergistic relationships were found of FS-CS, FS-WY and CS-WY both in 2009 and 2015, with the strongest one for FS-WY. Additionally, in the synergistic relationships, each pair of ecosystem services was dominated by one ecosystem service; (3) most of the three pairs of synergistic relationships had the tendency to strengthen with larger scales; (4) four ecosystem demands changing areas were observed and comprehensive improvement suggestions for them were proposed. This work provides a new attempt to improve ecosystem services based on its supply-demand relationship, which will give a baseline reference for related studies in Yantai city, as well as other similar bay cities.

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Climate and land use change impacts on water yield ecosystem service in the Yellow River Basin, China

Environmental Earth Sciences ◽

10.1007/s12665-020-09277-9 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 80 (3) ◽

Author(s):

Jie Yang ◽

Baopeng Xie ◽

Degang Zhang ◽

Wenqian Tao

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Land Use Change ◽

River Basin ◽

Ecosystem Service ◽

Yellow River ◽

Yellow River Basin ◽

Water Yield ◽

The Yellow River ◽

The Yellow River Basin

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Integrating ecosystem service bundles and socio-environmental conditions – A national scale analysis from Germany

Ecosystem Services ◽

10.1016/j.ecoser.2017.08.007 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 28 ◽

pp. 273-282 ◽

Cited By ~ 33

Author(s):

Andreas Dittrich ◽

Ralf Seppelt ◽

Tomáš Václavík ◽

Anna F. Cord

Keyword(s):

Environmental Conditions ◽

Ecosystem Service ◽

Scale Analysis ◽

National Scale

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Understanding the relationships between ecosystem services and associated social-ecological drivers in a karst region: A case study of Guizhou Province, China

Progress in Physical Geography Earth and Environment ◽

10.1177/0309133320933525 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 030913332093352 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Sijing Qiu ◽

Jian Peng ◽

Jianquan Dong ◽

Xiaoyu Wang ◽

Zihan Ding ◽

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Keyword(s):

Ecosystem Services ◽

Socioeconomic Factors ◽

Ecosystem Service ◽

Ecological Factors ◽

Water Yield ◽

Karst Region ◽

Human Society ◽

Grain Production ◽

Karst Landscape ◽

Social Ecological

Understanding the relationships among multiple ecosystem services could improve the landscape capacity to provide benefits to human society. However, the underlying mechanisms shaping ecosystem services relationships are still unclear although some studies have been conducted to explore how natural and socioeconomic factors influence the relationships among ecosystem services. In this study, the karst landscape in southwestern China, a vulnerable system with intensive human activities, was focused on, aiming to explore relationships between ecosystem services and associated social and ecological factors. The results showed that the distribution of eight individual ecosystem services were spatially heterogeneous and clustered based on the characteristics of the karst landscape. The relationships between provisioning services and regulating services, such as grain production and net primary productivity, as well as water yield and soil retention, were quite different in high karst coverage regions and low karst coverage regions. Among five ecosystem service bundles identified, ecosystem services in the urban development bundle were mainly determined by socioeconomic factors, while in the other four bundles of multifunction, grain production, habitat conservation, and carbon sequestration, ecosystem services were dominated by ecological factors. However, socioeconomic factors (i.e. population density and night-time light intensity) appeared to explain the overall ecosystem service delivery more than karst terrain. This study provided insights for sustainable ecosystem management in a vulnerable karst region through exploring social-ecological factors of the relationships among ecosystem services.

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Linking Ecosystem Service Supply–Demand Risks and Regional Spatial Management in the Yihe River Basin, Central China

Land ◽

10.3390/land10080843 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 10 (8) ◽

pp. 843

Author(s):

Qingxiang Meng ◽

Likun Zhang ◽

Hejie Wei ◽

Enxiang Cai ◽

Dong Xue ◽

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Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Ecosystem Services ◽

Carbon Sequestration ◽

River Basin ◽

Ecosystem Service ◽

Soil Conservation ◽

Food Production ◽

Supply And Demand ◽

Water Yield ◽

Spatial Management

The continuous supply of ecosystem services is the foundation of the sustainable development of human society. The identification of the supply–demand relationships and risks of ecosystem services is of considerable importance to the management of regional ecosystems and the effective allocation of resources. This paper took the Yihe River Basin as the research area and selected water yield, carbon sequestration, food production, and soil conservation to assess changes in the supply and demand of ecosystem services and their matching status from 2000 to 2018. Risk identification and management zoning were also conducted. Results show the following: (1) The spatial distribution of the four ecosystems service supply and demand in the Yihe River Basin was mismatched. The food production supply levels in the middle and lower reaches and the upstream water yield, carbon sequestration, and soil conservation supply levels were high. However, most of the areas with high demand for ecosystem services were concentrated downstream. (2) From 2000 to 2018, the supply of water yield and carbon sequestration in the Yihe River Basin decreased, while that of food production and soil conservation increased. The demand for the four ecosystem services also increased. (3) Water yield faced considerable supply–demand risks. Fifty percent of the sub-basins were at a high-risk level, and the risk areas were concentrated in the middle and lower reaches. The three remaining services were mainly at low-risk levels. The Yihe River Basin was divided into eight types of supply–demand risk spatial management zones based on the ecosystem service supply and demand levels, which will help promote refined regional ecosystem management and sustainable development. The supply and demand assessment of ecosystem services from a risk perspective can integrate the information of natural ecosystems and socio-economic systems and provide scientific support for watershed spatial management.

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