Wetland ecosystems are one of the three great ecosystems on Earth. With a deepening of research on wetland ecosystems, researchers have paid more and more attention to wetland ecosystem services such as flood mitigation, climate control, pollution prevention, soil-erosion prevention, biodiversity maintenance, and bio-productivity protection. This study focuses on a lakeside wetland ecosystem in...

An irrigated agricultural landscape experiencing groundwater overdraft generates economic returns and a suite of ecosystem services (in particular, groundwater supply, greenhouse gases reduction, and surface water quality). Alternative land cover choices indicate tradeoffs among the value of ecosystem services created and the economic returns. These tradeoffs are explored using efficiency front...

Dike-pond is a unique agricultural landscape type in the Pearl River Delta region of China, which has significance for maintenance ecological balance. In recent years, urbanization China developed rapidly, and dike-ponds have been extensively occupied, reducing their regulation ability threatening regional security. Taking Shunde District Foshan as an example, based on remote sensing images fro...

Land use change is an important way for human activities to affect ecosystems. Based on the land demands and policies, simulation of future changes under different scenarios can test rationality socio-economic policy-oriented changes. In this study, we set three regular growth, ecological protection, ecotourism development in 2030 Beibu Gulf area, China. We simulated spatial distribution evolut...

Ecosystem services provide important support for the sustainable development of humans; these are provided by various ecosystems, but they have been severely influenced anthropogenic activities globally in past several decades. To respond to Sustainable Development Goals United Nations, this study investigated changes ecosystem structure and estimated associated value (ESV) since China’s reform...

The optimal allocation of land use is a promising approach to achieving the sustainable resources, weigh ecological protection and economic development. urban agglomeration around Poyang Lake crucial plate for implementing spatial planning policy national supporting development Yangtze River Economic Belt. Based on ecosystem service value (ESV), we utilize minimum cumulative resistance (MCR), g...

With the expansion of the concept of sustainable development, it has become increasingly important to investigate the means for achieving sustainable eco-economic development. On the basis of Landsat imagery of Hengduan Mountain area of China acquired in 1990, 2000, and 2010, we analyzed the coordination relationships, evolution characteristics, and aggregation modes of the economy and ecology ...

www.frontiersinecology.org © The Ecological Society of America E generate a range of goods and services important for human well-being, collectively called ecosystem services. Over the past decade, progress has been made in understanding how ecosystems provide services and how service provision translates into economic value (Daily 1997; MA 2005; NRC 2005). Yet, it has proven difficult to move ...

Simulating the spatial response of ecosystem service value (ESV) caused by land use change in Heilongjiang Province under different scenarios future is great significance for ensuring ecological security and sustainable development region. Province, an important grain-producing region China, taken as research area this study. Five maps (2000, 2005, 2010, 2015, 2020) were used to evaluate past 2...