标题: Ecosystem health assessment based on ecological integrity and ecosystem services demand in the Middle Reaches of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, China

作者: Pan, ZZ (Pan, Zhenzhen); He, JH (He, Jianhua); Liu, DF (Liu, Dianfeng); Wang, JW (Wang, Jianwei); Guo, XA (Guo, Xiaona)

来源出版物: SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT卷: 774文献号: 144837 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.144837出版年: JUN 20 2021

摘要: Ecosystem health assessment is vital for regional ecological restoration and management. Although many studies have improved the framework of ecosystem health assessment at the regional scale, most of them primarily focus on the single measurements of the natural states of ecosystems or external disturbances. However, there is a lack of comprehensive evaluation methods based on the ecological integrity and human demand for ecosystem ser-vices from the perspective of coupled human and ecological systems. In this study, we proposed an improved method that considers the ecological integrity and ecosystem services demand, which comprises four aspects of indicators: vigor, organization, resilience and ecosystem services (ES) supply-demand ratio. We used the Mid-dle Reaches of the Yangtze River Economic Belt in China as a case study to apply the evaluation method. Our re-sults indicate that (1) the level of ecosystem health is low in the middle of the study area and high on the periphery from 2000 to 2015. The moderate and good health levels dominate throughout the study area in 2000 and 2015. (2) The ES supply-demand ratio can objectively measure the actual status of ES, and the strong ES deficit aggravated dramatically the deterioration of regional ecosystems. (3) Urbanization exhibited a signif-icant negative correlation with the ecosystem health index, and the greatest impact was observed in the urban agglomeration regions. Our framework extend the ecosystem health assessment methodology, and the research results can provide significant references for regional ecological protection and management. (C) 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

入藏号: WOS:000641161800012

语言: English

文献类型: Article

作者关键词: Regional ecosystem health assessment; Ecological integrity; Ecosystem services demand; Middle Reaches of the Yangtze River Economic; Belt

KeyWords Plus: SUPPLY-AND-DEMAND; LAND-USE CHANGE; METROPOLITAN REGION; URBANIZATION; RESILIENCE; LANDSCAPE; IMPACT; SUSTAINABILITY; INDICATORS; PROVINCE

地址: [Pan, Zhenzhen; He, Jianhua; Liu, Dianfeng] Wuhan Univ, Sch Resource & Environm Sci, 129 Luoyu Rd, Wuhan 430079, Peoples R China.

[He, Jianhua; Liu, Dianfeng] Wuhan Univ, Sch Resource & Environm Sci, Minist Educ, Key Lab Geog Informat Syst, Wuhan 430079, Peoples R China.

[Wang, Jianwei] Beijing Normal Univ, Coll Water Sci, Beijing 100875, Peoples R China.

[Guo, Xiaona] East China Normal Univ, Sch Geog Sci, 500 Dongchuan Rd, Shanghai 200241, Peoples R China.

通讯作者地址: He, JH; Liu, DF (通讯作者)，Wuhan Univ, Sch Resource & Environm Sci, 129 Luoyu Rd, Wuhan 430079, Peoples R China.

电子邮件地址: panzhenzhen@whu.edu.cn; hjianh@whu.edu.cn;liudianfeng@whu.edu.cn

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