scholarly journals Ecosystem Services Assessment, Trade-Off and Bundles in the Yellow River Basin, China

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jie Yang ◽  
Baopeng Xie ◽  
Wenqian Tao
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Yellow River ◽  
Yellow River Basin ◽  
The Yellow River ◽  
Trade Off ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
The Yellow River Basin ◽  
Functional Areas

Abstract Understanding ecosystem services (ESs) and their interactions will help to formulate effective and sustainable land use management programs.This paper evaluates the water yield (WY), soil conservation (SC), carbon storage (CS) and habitat quality (HQ), taking the Yellow River Basin as the research object, by adopting the InVEST (Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Trade Offs) model. The Net Primary Productivity (NPP) was evaluated by CASA (Carnegie-Ames-Stanford approach) model, and the spatial distribution map of five ESs were drawn, the correlation and bivariate spatial correlation were used to analyze the trade-off synergy relationships between the five ESs and express them spatially. The results show that NPP and HQ, CS and WY are trade-offs relationship, and other ecosystem services are synergistic. The trade-off synergy shows obvious spatial heterogeneity. Driven by different factors, the leading ecological function services in the Yellow River Basin can be divided into three areas, and WY and SC service leading functional areas are mainly distributed in HQ and CS service leading functional areas and NPP service leading functional areas.The results of functional bundles are obviously affected by natural conditions such as land use/cover types and climate in the Yellow River Basin, which can provide the basis for the Yellow River Basin to regulate ESs and maximize benefits.

scholarly journals Ecosystem Services Assessment, Trade-Off, and Bundles in the Yellow River Basin, China

Diversity ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 308
Author(s):  
Jie Yang ◽  
Baopeng Xie ◽  
Wenqian Tao ◽  
Degang Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Yellow River ◽  
Yellow River Basin ◽  
The Yellow River ◽  
Land Use Management ◽  
Trade Off ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
The Yellow River Basin ◽  
Functional Areas

Understanding ecosystem services(ESs)and their interactions will help to formulate effective and sustainable land use management plans, and clarifying the balance and synergy between watershed ecosystem services can provide a basis for the regulation of the ecological environment in different regions of the watershed and the maximization of overall ecological benefits. This paper takes the Yellow River Basin as the research object and uses the Ecosystem Services and Trade Offs (InVEST)model to evaluate the water yield (WY), soil conservation (SC), carbon storage (CS) and habitat quality (HQ) of the Yellow River Basin. The paper adopts the Carnegie-Ames-Stanford Approach (CASA)model to evaluate the net primary productivity (NPP), draws the spatial distribution map of the five ecosystems, analyzes the trade-off and synergy between the five ecosystems using correlation and binary spatial correlation, and expresses it in space. In addition, it adopts self-organizing mapping (SOM) method to identify ecosystem service clusters. The results show that: (1) ES is generally higher in the upper reaches of the Yellow River, and lower in the middle reaches. (2) WY and NPP, HQ, CS and WY are trade-off relationships, and other ecosystem services are synergistic relationships. Trade-offs and synergy show obvious spatial heterogeneity. (3) The ecosystem services of the Yellow River Basin, driven by different factors, can be divided into three areas, namely WY and SC service leading functional areas, HQ and CS service leading functional areas, and NPP service leading functional areas. Finally, it discusses the driving factors of the spatial heterogeneity of the balance of the ecosystem service functions of the Yellow River Basin and the suggestions of land use management in the basin.

scholarly journals Land Use and Land Cover Change in the Yellow River Basin from 1980 to 2015 and Its Impact on the Ecosystem Services

Land ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 1080
Author(s):  
Bo Liu ◽  
Libo Pan ◽  
Yue Qi ◽  
Xiao Guan ◽  
Junsheng Li
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Land Cover ◽  
Land Cover Change ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Yellow River ◽  
Yellow River Basin ◽  
The Yellow River ◽  
Restoration Project ◽  
The Yellow River Basin

Land use and land cover change is an important driving force for changes in ecosystem services. We defined several important human-induced land cover change processes such as Ecological Restoration Project, Cropland Expansion, Land Degradation, and Urbanization by the land use / land cover transition matrix method. We studied human-induced land cover changes in the Yellow River Basin from 1980 to 2015 and evaluated its impact on ecosystem service values by the benefit transfer method and elasticity coefficient. The results show that the cumulative area of human-induced land cover change reaches 65.71 million ha from 1980 to 2015, which is close to the total area of the Yellow River Basin. Before 2000, Ecological Restoration Project was the most important human-induced land cover change process. However, due to the large amount of cropland expansion and land degradation, the area of natural vegetation was reduced and the ecosystem value declined. Since 2000, due to the implementation of the "Grain for Green" program, the natural vegetation of upstream area and midstream area of Yellow River Basin has been significantly improved. This implies that under an appropriate policy framework, a small amount of human-induced land cover change can also improve ecosystem services significantly.

Valuation of Flood Reductions in the Yellow River Basin under Land Use Change

2010 ◽  
Vol 136 (1) ◽  
pp. 106-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yaqin Qiu ◽  
Yangwen Jia ◽  
Jincheng Zhao ◽  
Xuehong Wang ◽  
Jeff Bennett ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Change ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Yellow River ◽  
Yellow River Basin ◽  
The Yellow River ◽  
The Yellow River Basin

scholarly journals The effects of rainfall characteristics and land use and cover change on runoff in the Yellow River basin, China

2021 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-40
Author(s):  
CaiHong Hu ◽  
Guang Ran ◽  
Gang Li ◽  
Yun Yu ◽  
Qiang Wu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Yellow River ◽  
Yellow River Basin ◽  
Vegetation Coverage ◽  
Water Yield ◽  
The Yellow River ◽  
Rainfall Events ◽  
The Yellow River Basin ◽  
The Impact

AbstractThe changes of runoff in the middle reaches of the Yellow River basin of China have received considerable attention owing to their sharply decline during recent decades. In this paper, the impacts of rainfall characteristics and land use and cover change on water yields in the Jingle sub-basin of the middle reaches of the Yellow River basin were investigated using a combination of statistical analysis and hydrological simulations. The Levenberg Marquardt and Analysis of Variance methods were used to construct multivariate, nonlinear, model equations between runoff coefficient and rainfall intensity and vegetation coverage. The land use changes from 1971 to 2017 were ascertained using transition matrix analysis. The impact of land use on water yields was estimated using the M-EIES hydrological model. The results show that the runoff during flood season (July to September) decreased significantly after 2000, whereas slightly decreasing trend was detected for precipitation. Furthermore, there were increase in short, intense, rainfall events after 2000 and this rainfall events were more conducive to flood generation. The “Grain for Green” project was carried out in 1999, and the land use in the middle reaches of the Yellow River improved significantly, which make the vegetation coverage (Vc) of the Jingle sub-basin increased by 13%. When Vc approaches 48%, the runoff coefficient decreased to the lowest, and the vegetation conditions have the greatest effect on reducing runoff. Both land use and climate can change the water yield in the basin, but for areas where land use has significantly improved, the impact of land use change on water yield plays a dominant role. The results acquired in this study provide a useful reference for water resources planning and soil and water conservation in the erodible areas of the middle reaches of the Yellow River basin.

Relationship between land use change and agricultural production in Chinese Yellow River Basin

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jingjing Liu ◽  
Jing Wang ◽  
Ying Fang ◽  
Zehui Li
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Change ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Yellow River ◽  
Arable Land ◽  
Yellow River Basin ◽  
The Yellow River ◽  
Production Potential ◽  
The Yellow River Basin

<p>The Yellow River basin, from west to east through different gradient terrains and climates, has huge spatial differences of land use and problematic eco‐environment. The understanding of relationship between land use change and agricultural production is crucial for coordinating the conflict between land development and environment protection in the Yellow River basin. In this study, the relationship between changes in arable land and urban land and changes in vegetation cover and agricultural production potential were quantitatively analyzed. Whether reclaimed land in the Yellow River basin can be converted to arable land and whether the occupation of urban land will cause ecosystem degradation were also discussed. The results indicated that: (1) Land use change in the Yellow River basin was greatly influenced by precipitation, which also affected the agricultural production potential and the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) in the Yellow River basin. The implementation of the Grain for Green program (GGP) had an effective restoration for vegetation cover and the resistance of soil erosion. Although the net area of arable land decreased by 71.6 ten thousand ha, the net production potential of arable land still increased by 1.7 ten thousand tons due to the inferior quality of the arable land for ecological restoration. (2) The concentrated distributed grassland and forest shrunk and the supply of ecosystem services and NDVI reduced, leading to ecological degraded in urban agglomeration regions where human activity was concentrated and construction land was increasing rapidly during the period of 2000–2015. The arable land was reduced by 43.3 ten thousand ha due to urban expansion, accounting for 59% of the total area of urban expansion, and consequently the agricultural production potential in the lower reaches was decreased. (3) Although it has not contributed significantly to agricultural production, the reclaimed land can be converted to arable land to a certain extent, due to its reasonable use for improving the ecological status of the Yellow River basin. 34.1 ten thousand ha of unused land and grassland were reclaimed for arable land under the Requisition‐Compensation Equilibrium of Farmland, which accounts for 1.27% of the total arable land. The increase of potential productivity brought by the reclamation of land for agricultural use only accounts for 0.56% of the total arable land potential productivity. However, compared with the whole Yellow River basin and the GGP region, the region with arable land reclaimed by low-coverage grassland and unused land leads to the highest increasing rate of the supply of ecosystem services and NDVI. The results could provide theoretical support and decision-making basis for further eco‐environment reconstruction, and promoting the reasonable land use and high-quality development in the Yellow River basin.</p>

scholarly journals Green Transition of Cultivated Land Use in the Yellow River Basin: A Perspective of Green Utilization Efficiency Evaluation

Land ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 475 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiao Lu ◽  
Yi Qu ◽  
Piling Sun ◽  
Wei Yu ◽  
Wenlong Peng
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Yellow River ◽  
Yellow River Basin ◽  
Utilization Efficiency ◽  
The Yellow River ◽  
Efficiency Evaluation ◽  
Cultivated Land ◽  
Ecological Civilization ◽  
The Yellow River Basin

Exploring the green transition of cultivated land use from the perspective of green utilization efficiency evaluation has become an important content of deepening the study of cultivated land use transition, which is of great significance to promote food security and ecological civilization construction. At present, there are few studies on the green utilization efficiency of cultivated land (GUECL), which covers the comprehensive benefits of economy, ecology and society, combined with the requirements of ecological civilization and green development. Taking 65 cities (regions and autonomous prefectures) of the Yellow River Basin as the basic evaluation unit, the GUECL of the Yellow River Basin is evaluated with a Super-SBM model. In general, the GUECL of the Yellow River Basin was not high at four time points of 2000, 2006, 2012 and 2018, which presents a trend of “rising first and then falling”. Analyzing its temporal and spatial evolution pattern, the GUECL in the upper, middle and lower reaches presented an order of the upper reaches area > the lower reaches area > the middle reaches area; and the spatial variation trend showed a decrease from west to east, and a U-shaped change in the south-north direction. Using spatial correlation analysis, except for the year 2000, the GUECL in the Yellow River Basin presents a general distribution characteristic of spatial agglomeration, which is positively correlated in 2006, 2012 and 2018. The change of spatio-temporal pattern is the result of internal and external factors. The former mainly displays in the main characteristics of farmers, family characteristics and farmers’ cognition, while the latter is reflected in natural, social and policy factors.

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