Climate change enhances the positive contribution of human activities to vegetation restoration in China

Bai, Xiaoyong; Tan, Qiu; Luo, Geping; Wu, Luhua; Luo, Xiaoying; Chen, Ran; Zhang, Sirui

doi:10.1080/10106049.2022.2082542

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“…However, the distinctive dualistic hydrogeological structure of its ecosystem results in low environmental capacity and low disturbance resistance. Previous studies and the findings of this study show that urban sprawl, population growth, and socioeconomic activities will place stress and challenges on ecosystem services (Wang et al, 2021a;Liu et al, 2022;Zhang et al, 2022a). Consequently, we suggest that strengthening the ecosystem service function and supporting sustainable development can be regarded from four perspectives.…”

Section: Ecological Conservation In Karst Urban Watersheds: Insights ...mentioning

confidence: 64%

Ecosystem Service Functions of a Typical Karst Urban Basin Based on Land Use Change

Yue,

Huacai,

Luhua

et al. 2024

Journal of Resources and Ecology

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Revealing the mechanism by which land use influences ecosystem service function in karst urban watersheds is of great significance for social and economic development and ecological environmental protection. In this study, the Nanming River Basin, a typical karst basin in Guizhou Province, was used as an example. The spatiotemporal dynamic changes in land use in the basin during three periods from 2000 to 2020 were analyzed using ArcGIS, and the ecosystem service functions of the different land use types in the basin were evaluated using an integrated valuation of ecosystem services and tradeoffs (InVEST) model. This analysis led to three outcomes. (1) Forest, cultivated land, and grassland make up most of the land uses. The land use change was mostly dependent on the growth of construction land, which expanded by 13.07%. (2) The watershed′s water conservation function was significantly boosted during the study period. In contrast, the carbon stock function became slightly impaired, and the physical quality of both was regionally distributed as high in the northeast and low in the southwest. (3) The contributions of forest to total water conservation and carbon stock of the watershed are always the greatest, exceeding 57%, and the conversions of forest to construction land and cultivated land to forest are the two primary types of land use change in which the ecosystem service function was impaired and strengthened, respectively. The results of this study can provide important data support and scientific reference for land use structure optimization, soil and water resource exploitation, and sustainable ecosystem management in ecologically fragile areas.

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Section: Ecological Conservation In Karst Urban Watersheds: Insights ...mentioning

confidence: 64%

Ecosystem Service Functions of a Typical Karst Urban Basin Based on Land Use Change

Yue,

Huacai,

Luhua

et al. 2024

Journal of Resources and Ecology

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“…Financial transfer investment rose from 29% in 1999 to 39.4% in 2010, marking an increase of 35.86% in the past decade. Driven by various development strategies and policies, China's infrastructure construction and ecological protection have been greatly improved [60][61][62][63][64][65][66][67][68][69][70][71][72]. Since 1995, China's economic investment has increased by 13.87 times in non-defensive public expenses on education and health, 35.02 times in the value of highways and streets, and 6.65 times in net capital growth.…”

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confidence: 99%

Accelerating the Improvement of Human Well-Being in China through Economic Growth and Policy Adjustment

Wang

Bai

et al. 2022

IJERPH

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Human well-being in many countries lags behind the gross domestic product (GDP) due to the rapid changes in the socio-economic environment that have occurred for decades. However, the mechanisms behind this complex phenomenon are still unclear. This study revealed the changes in human well-being in China from 1995 to 2017 by revising the genuine progress indicator (GPI) at the national level and further quantified the contribution of interfering factors that have driven the increase in the GPI. The results indicated that: (1) The per capita GPI of China showed an increasing trend with an annual growth rate of 12.43%. The changes in the GPI followed the same pattern as economic development, rather than presenting the phenomenon of economic growth combined with a decline in welfare that has been recorded in some countries and regions. (2) The increase in human well-being was mainly driven by economic growth, but it was most sensitive to social factors. (3) Increasing income inequality and the cost of lost leisure time contributed obvious negative impacts (24.69% and 23.35%, respectively) to the per capita GPI. However, the increase in personal consumption expenditures, the value of domestic labor, ecosystem service value, and net capital growth accelerated the rise in the GPI, with positive contribution rates of 30.69%, 23%, 20.54%, and 20.02%, respectively. (4) The continuous increase in economic investment and the strengthening of social management due to policy adjustments completely counteracted the negative impacts on human well-being, thus leading to a great increase in the per capita GPI. Such insights could provide theoretical support for decision making and policy implementation to improve global human well-being.

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“…Due to the imbalance between social and economic development and the natural ecological process [1], as well as the instability, sensitivity and complexity of the natural system of the mountainous area itself, the mountainous area has become the most intense region of global environmental change and ecological degradation in recent years [2], and the conflicts between human and land have become more prominent and complex. In the southwest of China, the terrain is fragmented and sensitive, and the generalized mountain landscape is an important and unique natural-human geography unit composed of "mountain" and "flatland" as the core elements [3,4], which is an important content of the scientific research of human-land systems in mountainous areas.…”

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Comparative Analysis of Temporal-Spatial Variation on Mountain-Flatland Landscape Pattern in Karst Mountainous Areas of Southwest China: A Case Study of Yuxi City

Zhou

Xie

2023

Land

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Taking Yuxi City, a typical mountain-flatland in the southwestern karst mountainous area, as an example, we used six remote sensing images from 1995 to 2018 as the main data sources, and the grid scale was used to calculate the landscape pattern index in order to analyze the temporal-spatial evolution characteristics of the landscape pattern. The results are shown as follows: (1) At the class level, most landscape indices and fragmentation degrees of landscape units in the flatland area are significantly higher than those in the mountainous area. The layout of construction land and cultivated land is also more concentrated than that in the mountainous area, but the central tendency of forest and grass in the mountainous area is more eye-catching. (2) At the landscape level, although the landscape diversity index and landscape shape index of both the mountainous areas and the flatland areas decrease in the low-value area and increase in the high-value area, the proportion of high-value areas in the flatland area is noticeably greater. The proportion of the high-value areas of the largest patch index in the mountainous area is significantly greater, and in the flatland area, the low-value area continues to expand while the middle and high value areas continue to shrink. (3) The landscape shape of the flatland area is becoming more complex, and the landscape units in the mountainous area tend to be single. The natural landscape of forest and grass in the mountainous area continues to expand and tends to be contiguous, while the man-made landscape in the flatland area continually increases and shows fragmentation, reflecting the pattern characteristics formed by the coupling evolution of land use between two regions. The urban expansion and the increase in the construction land in the flatland area are mutually causal with the decrease in cultivated land and the increase in forest and grass in the mountainous area.

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Climate change enhances the positive contribution of human activities to vegetation restoration in China

Cited by 12 publications

References 112 publications

Ecosystem Service Functions of a Typical Karst Urban Basin Based on Land Use Change

Ecosystem Service Functions of a Typical Karst Urban Basin Based on Land Use Change

Accelerating the Improvement of Human Well-Being in China through Economic Growth and Policy Adjustment

Comparative Analysis of Temporal-Spatial Variation on Mountain-Flatland Landscape Pattern in Karst Mountainous Areas of Southwest China: A Case Study of Yuxi City

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