Relationship between paired ecosystem services in the grassland and agro-pastoral transitional zone of China using the constraint line method

Hao, Ruifang; Yu, Deyong; Wu, Jianguo

doi:10.1016/j.agee.2017.02.015

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“…To achieve rational ecological management, understanding the interactions among ES is important 13 . The interactions among ES are usually reflected as trade-offs and synergies 14 .…”

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Scenario analysis of ecosystem service changes and interactions in a mountain-oasis-desert system: a case study in Altay Prefecture, China

Hou

Wang

et al. 2018

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Scenario analysis of ecosystem services (ES) can provide a scientific basis for ecosystem management. The objective of this study was to reveal the effects of future land use scenarios on ES in a mountain-oasis-desert system (MODS). We first simulated land use changes for the period of 2015–2035 in Altay Prefecture under three different scenarios: business as usual (BAU), economic development (ED), and ecological conservation (EC). We then evaluated water yield (WY), crop production (CP), soil conservation (SC), sand fixation (SF), carbon sequestration (CS), and aesthetic value (AV) and investigated the multiple interactions among ES at the regional and grid scales. The results showed that SC, CS, and AV continually increased, WY continually decreased under the three scenarios. Our study revealed that the multiple interactions among ES were spatially heterogeneous in the MODS and the spatial heterogeneities changed across scenarios. The locations of and causes for the formation of the multiple interactions among ES were identified based on spatial analysis. This information can help decision-makers develop targeted and differentiated ecosystem management strategies. This study can increase the understanding of the multiple interactions among ES. Our findings can provide a reference for studies of other regions with the MODS structure.

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“…To achieve rational ecological management, understanding the interactions among ES is important 13 . The interactions among ES are usually reflected as trade-offs and synergies 14 .…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Scenario analysis of ecosystem service changes and interactions in a mountain-oasis-desert system: a case study in Altay Prefecture, China

Hou

Wang

et al. 2018

Sci Rep

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“…The first lies in the linear correlation analysis of the relationship among ESs, which assumes that the relationships between ecosystem services are monotonic. However, considering the complexity and diversity of the ecosystem process, there may be more types of interactions among them, such as constraint effects with diverse shapes [31], as well as trade-offs and synergistic relationships depicted by a bagplot [43]. Therefore, it is necessary to adopt some nonlinear statistical analyses (e.g., a segmented linear regression, an accumulative probability density curve, and logarithmic function fitness) to explore these relationships.…”

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“…Although synergies between carbon sequestration and soil retention occurred in most areas of the NW and during most periods, continuous trade-offs happened in APHC-O and EX-O. These conflicting relationships between carbon sequestration and soil retention could be explained by the constraint threshold theory, proposed by Hao Ruifang et al [31], where this relationship is characterized by a hump-shaped line. Higher carbon sequestration indicates good vegetation coverage that could protect soil from erosion by water or indicates more precipitation, which could increase the possibility of soil erosion.…”

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Quantitative Assessment for the Dynamics of the Main Ecosystem Services and their Interactions in the Northwestern Arid Area, China

Kang

Gao

2020

Sustainability

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Evaluating changes in the spatial–temporal patterns of ecosystem services (ESs) and their interrelationships provide an opportunity to understand the links among them, as well as to inform ecosystem-service-based decision making and governance. To research the development trajectory of ecosystem services over time and space in the northwestern arid area of China, three main ecosystem services (carbon sequestration, soil retention, and sand fixation) and their relationships were analyzed using Pearson’s coefficient and a time-lagged cross-correlation analysis based on the mountain–oasis–desert zonal scale. The results of this study were as follows: (1) The carbon sequestration of most subregions improved, and that of the oasis continuously increased from 1990 to 2015. Sand fixation decreased in the whole region except for in the Alxa Plateau–Hexi Corridor area, which experienced an “increase–decrease” trend before 2000 and after 2000; (2) the synergies and trade-off relationships of the ES pairs varied with time and space, but carbon sequestration and soil retention in the most arid area had a synergistic relationship, and most oases retained their synergies between carbon sequestration and sand fixation over time. Most regional relationships of sand fixation and soil retention with a weak trade-off during the before-2000 stage turned into weak synergies at the after-2000 stage; (3) the ES pairs of carbon sequestration and sand fixation had significant time-lagged trade-off relationships in most arid areas, and these time trade-offs were generally maintained for 2–6 years, where a higher absolute value of the maximum time-lagged correlation coefficient corresponded to a longer time-lag. This study could assist us in understanding the trade-off and synergy of ESs and will provide quantitative zonal information for the ecosystem-services-based ecomanagement of arid areas.

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“…明晰土地资源利用中格局-过程-服务的级联, 首先需要准确量化土地资源类型、开发强度、空间格局的变化对生态系统服务供给的直接影响, 为土地资源利用的多目标优化提供更准确的驱动参数 [42,43] . 其次需要识别影响生态系统服务权衡关系的关键格局与过程指标, 析取可用于生态系统管理实践的指标阈值, 为规划管理提供更科学的约束条件 [44,45] . 最后需要构建结合土地利用模拟与生态系统服务评估的空间分析模型, 依托多种驱动过程下的生态系统服务制图情景, 进行土地资源管理决策 [46,47] .…”

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The theories and methods for systematically understanding land resource

Liu¹,

Fu²

2019

Chin. Sci. Bull.

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Relationship between paired ecosystem services in the grassland and agro-pastoral transitional zone of China using the constraint line method

Cited by 110 publications

References 46 publications

Scenario analysis of ecosystem service changes and interactions in a mountain-oasis-desert system: a case study in Altay Prefecture, China

Scenario analysis of ecosystem service changes and interactions in a mountain-oasis-desert system: a case study in Altay Prefecture, China

Quantitative Assessment for the Dynamics of the Main Ecosystem Services and their Interactions in the Northwestern Arid Area, China

The theories and methods for systematically understanding land resource

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