“…Defining ecosystem services as the benefits humans derive from the natural environment and categorizing them into different types (such as provisioning, regulating, and cultural services) helps to better understand and measure the value of these services (Gao, Li, & Tian, 2016). In order to convert ecosystem services into economic value, various valuation methods have been proposed in academia, including market valuation methods (Xia, 2023; Yuan et al, 2023), non‐market valuation methods, and hybrid approaches (Lang et al, 2023). The research on ecological resource capitalization has been widely applied in various fields, including natural resource management, land use planning, and environmental policymaking (Yang et al, 2021; Ye et al, 2022).…”