Land use trade-offs and synergies based on temporal and spatial patterns of ecosystem services in South China

Shao, Yuting; Yi, Xun; Sang, Weiguo

doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2022.109335

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“…The module is based on the principle of water balance and calculates the difference between precipitation and actual evapotranspiration for each grid. The calculated difference is the water yield volume of each grid [26,27]. The specific equations involved are as follows:…”

Section: Water Conservationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Trends in the Altitudinal Gradient Evolution of Vegetation Ecological Functions in Mountainous Areas

Niu,

Huang,

Zhang

et al. 2024

Forests

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Natural vegetation protects, maintains, and improves the environment through its ecological functions and is, thus, an important component of Earth’s ecosystems. The distribution of natural vegetation and its corresponding ecological roles vary with the topographic gradient. Understanding this role is essential for effective ecosystem management and conservation efforts. This study analyzes vegetation composition across altitude gradients and the spatiotemporal evolution of water conservation, soil conservation, and carbon storage in the southern hill and mountain belt of China. We then explored the drivers of the ecological functions of vegetation at different altitude gradients. The results showed that water conservation increased by 108.56%, soil conservation increased by 97.04%, and carbon storage increased only slightly. The ecological functions of vegetation varied across altitude gradients, with the 500–800 m gradient exhibiting markedly higher ecological functions than the other gradients. The effect of precipitation on soil conservation increases with altitude. In addition, at higher altitudes, evergreen coniferous forests had a greater effect on carbon storage. Based on the results, we propose vegetation management measures for different altitudes. This study provides a reference for decision-makers to develop and adjust ecological restoration programs in mountainous areas for the improvement of the local ecological environment.

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Section: Water Conservationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Trends in the Altitudinal Gradient Evolution of Vegetation Ecological Functions in Mountainous Areas

Niu,

Huang,

Zhang

et al. 2024

Forests

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“…This trend was alarming as, previously in such areas, there was primarily the conversion of natural vegetation into arable land [5,16], but this change in land use into built-up area will severely ruin ecological systems and affect their services. Consequently, there are risks to productivity and ultimately environmental degradation and sustainability of the desert ecosystem as this is interconnected [32,35]. Another obvious LULC change was a reduction of 41% in area of waterbodies and its conversion into agricultural land and built-up areas.…”

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Estimating Advance of Built-Up Area in Desert-Oasis Ecotone of Cholistan Desert Using Landsat

Ullah,

Shi,

Dasti

et al. 2023

Land

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There have been few attempts to estimate the effects of land use and land cover (LULC) on ecosystem services in desert-oasis ecotones, which are recognized as critical ecological barriers and buffers that prevent deserts from expanding into oases. This research investigated how remote sensing and geographic information technology may be used to monitor changes in LULC in the Cholistan desert and the Bahawalpur region of Pakistan between the years 2015 and 2022. The objective of this research was to identify thematic and statistical shifts in LULC in the study area due to various human interventions in the area. Landsat-8 images were processed using the maximum likelihood supervised classification technique using 500 training samples to categorize the study area into four LULC classes, i.e., desert/barren land, waterbodies, vegetation, and built-up areas, with an overall accuracy of 93% and 98% for 2015 and 2022, respectively. Results indicate a significant expansion in built-up area in 2022, which is up to 43%, agriculture and vegetation area declined by 8%, waterbodies decreased by 41%, and desert area decreased by 2% when compared with 2015. The change detection approach revealed that agricultural land was directly encroached on by rapidly increasing built-up area and urbanization as the area had an overall 19% rise in population growth within eight years with an annual growth rate of more than 3%. This study will be helpful to assess the quantity of spatial and temporal changes in the desert ecosystem, which is usually ignored by policymakers and governments due to less economic activity, although it plays a huge role in biodiversity conservation and balancing the regional ecosystem.

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“…The CA-Markov model is often used for inertial simulation of historical changes, but the disadvantage is that it cannot flexibly simulate different scenarios (Mondal et al 2016, Mansour et al 2020, the CLUE-S model simulates spatiotemporal changes in land use at a small spatial scale (Liao et al 2022, Mohammady 2021, the GeoSOS-FLUS model is based on the system dynamics (SD) and cellular automata (CA) models, combined with artificial neural networks (ANN) in various mechanisms. It has significant advantages in land use scenario simulation under stress (Wang et al 2022a, Shao et al 2022, and the model has been successfully used to simulate land use in different scenarios such as cities and urban agglomerations (Xiao et al 2022a). At present, there is a relative lack of research on scenario simulation that considers policy binding factors under territorial spatial planning, and no relevant suggestions are mentioned on the limiting factors of research results (Liu et al 2018, Zuo et al 2022.…”

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The spatiotemporal changes and trade-off synergistic effects of ecosystem services in the Jianghan Plain of China under different scenarios

Ren,

Zhang,

Peng

2024

Environ. Res. Commun.

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Disturbance from human activities has intensified the evolution of ecosystem structure in the Jianghan Plain of China, leading to intensified conflicts between ecosystem services. It is essential to clarify the trade-off synergies between ecosystem services in the Jianghan Plain of China to better coordinate the economic and social development and ecological protection of the region. Based on historical data and scenario predictions using the GeoSOS-FLUS model, the InVEST model was applied to five key ecosystem services: Carbon storage, crop production, habitat quality, soil conservation and water yield from 2000 to 2020. Spearman correlation analysis was used to explore the trade-off synergies between different ecosystem services in space and time. The results showed that arable land and water land areas are the most important land types in the Jianghan Plain of China. From 2000 to 2020, the increase in build-up land and water land areas was accompanied by a decrease in arable land, forest land and unused land, and an increase in forest land. The natural development scenario in 2035 continues this trend except forest land reduction, while the ecological protection scenario reverses this trend. From 2000 to 2020, crop production, water yield, and soil conservation increased in the Jianghan Plain of China, while carbon storage and habitat quality declined significantly, showing a spatial distribution pattern of higher in the northwest and lower in the southeast. The comprehensive ecosystem services simulated in 2035 showed a downward trend compared with 2020, and the ecological protection scenario has the smallest decrease. There is an overall synergistic relationship between the five ecosystem services in the Jianghan Plain of China, and the strongest synergistic relationship is between soil conservation and water yield.

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Land use trade-offs and synergies based on temporal and spatial patterns of ecosystem services in South China

Cited by 29 publications

References 69 publications

Trends in the Altitudinal Gradient Evolution of Vegetation Ecological Functions in Mountainous Areas

Trends in the Altitudinal Gradient Evolution of Vegetation Ecological Functions in Mountainous Areas

Estimating Advance of Built-Up Area in Desert-Oasis Ecotone of Cholistan Desert Using Landsat

The spatiotemporal changes and trade-off synergistic effects of ecosystem services in the Jianghan Plain of China under different scenarios

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