Linking ecosystem services and ecosystem health to ecological risk assessment: A case study of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration

Kang, Peng; Chen, Weiping; Hou, Ying; Li, Yuanzheng

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.04.427

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“…Ecosystem health assessment includes four indicators: vigor, organization, resilience and ecosystem services value [13,14,32] (Table 1). The ecosystem health index formula is as follows [33]:…”

Section: Ecosystem Health Assessmentmentioning

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Temporal–Spatial Distribution of Ecosystem Health and Its Response to Human Interference Based on Different Terrain Gradients: A Case Study in Gannan, China

2020

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The exploitation, utilization, and protection of land resources are some of the great social problems during the process of rapid urbanization in China. The status of land use directly affects ecosystem health (ESH). The evaluation of ESH and the spatial correlations between urbanization caused by human interference help us to analyze the influence of urbanization on ecosystems and also provide new insight into reasonable and scientific resource management. In this study, we evaluated the ESH of Gannan, in Jiangxi Province, China, based on ecosystem service values (ESV) and selected a series of indicators to detect the impact of urbanization on ecosystem health in 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2010. and 2015. Remote sensing (RS) and the Geographic Information System (GIS) were used as processing tools to calculate basic data and to map the results based on different terrain gradients. The results show that ecosystem health suffered a downward trend from 1990 to 2015. Especially, the area proportion at an unhealthy level and average health (ave-health) level increased prominently, and the area of a well state decreased. Further, the results indicate that urbanization had a negative impact on ESH. The degree of a negative correlation increases with the process of urban sprawl. In addition, we found that from 1990 to 2015, the area proportion of a degraded level and unhealthy level was the highest on the first terrain gradient, and as the terrain gradient increased, this area proportion also decreased. However, the high interference region occupies a higher proportion in the lower terrain gradient. Consequently, the results could reveal the impact of urbanization on ecosystem health and could provide an even more effective service for a sustainable development.

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Temporal–Spatial Distribution of Ecosystem Health and Its Response to Human Interference Based on Different Terrain Gradients: A Case Study in Gannan, China

2020

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“…In recent years, based on land use characteristics, the VORS model, which was expanded from Costanza's classic VOR evaluation mode, was more commonly used in research on the regional health assessments related to land use. Compared to other regional ecosystem health assessment models, such as the subsystems, the press-state-response framework, and the reliability-resilience-vulnerability framework, etc., the VORS model has fewer indexes and takes ecosystem services into account, which provides an effective quantitative research method for evaluating the ecological effects caused by land use [26,[44][45][46]]. The VORS model was used to evaluate the ecosystem health of the MRB.…”

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“…Vitality Ecosystem activity refers to the level of system metabolism and primary productivity, which is usually expressed as the net primary productivity (NPP) of the vegetation [45,47]. The CASA model, which is based on photosynthetic effective radiation and light energy utilization, has become a well-established model for NPP estimation [48].…”

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“…Ecosystem organization refers to the stability of its structure, which is generally expressed by the landscape pattern index. Landscape heterogeneity and connectivity are commonly used indicators to reflect the stability of the structure of a system, and they have the same importance [45]. In addition, the water area is an important landscape type in the basin due to the mountain-oases-deserts system structure in arid areas, and the connectivity of water areas also affects the organizational state of the basin to a certain extent.…”

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Study on the Sustainable Development of an Arid Basin Based on the Coupling Process of Ecosystem Health and Human Wellbeing Under Land Use Change—A Case Study in the Manas River Basin, Xinjiang, China

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Due to the differences in the contributions of land use types to ecosystem health and human wellbeing, there is a trade-off and a coordinating relationship between ecosystem health and human wellbeing, which affects the sustainable development of a river basin. To explore the impacts of the responses of ecosystem health and human wellbeing and the combined effects under land use change, this paper, taking the Manas River Basin (MRB) as an example, evaluated the health status of the MRB by the model: Vitality (V), organization (O), resilience (R), and services (S). From a sustainability perspective, an index system of human wellbeing was constructed, which included society and the economy, health and safety, materials and resources, and ecology and the environment. On this basis, the coupling coordination relationship and sustainable development status of the basin was assessed. The results showed that as land use changed, the ecosystem health showed a downward trend, and human wellbeing grew exponentially. The sustainable development index and the coupling coordination degree of the MRB were similar, indicating that the level of balance between ecosystem health and human wellbeing was the key to the sustainable development of the basin, and the overall situation was in a state of moderate imbalance and moderate unsustainability. Therefore, it is necessary to carry out sustainable management of the whole basin.

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“…Native vegetation of the basin, mainly seasonal tropical forest, holds high levels of diversity (Neves et al 2020), challenging the restoration of such large areas. Besides choosing the adequate site-specific restoration strategy (Brancalion et al 2016; Holl & Aide 2011), the selection of locally adapted species is necessary to restitute taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversities (Li et al 2018; Temperton et al 2005), safeguarding community stability and the performance of ecosystem services (Kang et al 2018; Pillar et al 2013), especially in global changing scenarios (Bakker & Wilson 2004; Harris et al 2006; Wolff et al 2018). Thus, the understanding of the environmental influences ruling the vegetation assemblages is required to select locally adapted species for planting or seeding (Gastauer et al 2018).…”

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Community assembly as a basis for tropical forest restoration in a global change scenario

Meira‐Neto

Junior

Silva

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Native tropical forests hold high levels of diversity, challenging forest restoration of large areas in a global change scenario. For a site-specific restoration is required the understanding of the main influences ruling the assemblages. We aimed to answer three questions. 1) how do environmental variables influence taxonomic, phylogenetic diversities, and the phylogenetic structure in the of Rio Doce Basin (TFRD)? 2) How do environmental variables, phylogenetic structure and the main types of seed dispersal relate to each other? 3) Which information of the TFRD assemblages can be used for ecological restoration and conservation? We used 78 sites with their checklists to calculate taxonomic, and phylogenetic diversities, phylogenetic structures, and dispersal proportions. Then, we related the diversities of the sites to their bioclimatic variables and built GLM models. Species richness was influenced negatively by water excess duration, by water deficit duration, and positively by maximum temperature, and temperature seasonality. Water regime drives diversity and phylogenetic community structure in the TFRD more than other variables. Annual precipitation and maximum temperature presented the clearer influences on diversity and phylogenetic structure. Zoochory was positively, and anemochory, autochory were negatively related to sesMPD. By choosing the lineages with high fitness for each site, the functioning and the stability of ecosystems should increase. The addition of species with anemochory and autochory increases functional and phylogenetic diversity in areas with extreme water excess or water deficit, important in a global change scenario. A high proportion of zoochory allows the communities to function conserving dispersers, biodiversity, and services.Implications for practiceThe use of objective methods based on community assembly rules enhances the choice of species, and of phylogenetic lineages better fitted to the bioclimatic profiles of the areas to be restored, improving the functioning and stability of the restored forests.The water purification service should be improved through forest restoration as much as possible because ecosystem services and biodiversity conservation are co-benefits of restored forests.The inclusion of species with anemochory, and autochory in forest restoration practices should become usual, as they increase functional, and phylogenetic diversities, and as a consequence, the ecosystem stability.A large proportion of species with zoochory in restored forests co-benefits taxonomic diversity, phylogenetic diversity, and ecosystem stability.

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Linking ecosystem services and ecosystem health to ecological risk assessment: A case study of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration

Cited by 199 publications

References 55 publications

Temporal–Spatial Distribution of Ecosystem Health and Its Response to Human Interference Based on Different Terrain Gradients: A Case Study in Gannan, China

Temporal–Spatial Distribution of Ecosystem Health and Its Response to Human Interference Based on Different Terrain Gradients: A Case Study in Gannan, China

Study on the Sustainable Development of an Arid Basin Based on the Coupling Process of Ecosystem Health and Human Wellbeing Under Land Use Change—A Case Study in the Manas River Basin, Xinjiang, China

Community assembly as a basis for tropical forest restoration in a global change scenario

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