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- Title
Temporal variation and spatial scale dependency of ecosystem service interactions: a case study on the central Loess Plateau of China.
- Authors
Hou, Ying; Lü, Yihe; Chen, Weiping; Fu, Bojie
- Abstract
Contexts: An important feature of ecosystem service interaction is that it changes over time and across spatial scales. Objectives: This research aims to find which ecosystem service interactions temporally vary and depend on spatial scale. Methods: We calculated six ecosystem services of the Baota District on the central Loess Plateau of China for 2000, 2005, and 2010. Furthermore, we quantified the interactions among these services at the beginning and after the end of the first phase of the Grain for Green Program in this area, and across the pixel scale of 1 km and the town scale. Results: Water yield decreased significantly, and habitat quality, net primary productivity, and evapotranspiration increased significantly across different land use types from 2000 to 2005. The synergy between food productivity and water yield, and the trade-off between water yield and evapotranspiration, greatly reduced from 2000 to 2010 at the pixel scale. Water yield was a trade-off to habitat quality, NPP, and recreation capacity in 2000 at the pixel scale while a synergy to the three services in 2010. The synergies between habitat quality and NPP, evapotranspiration, and recreation capacity at the pixel scale were enhanced from 2000 to 2010. Changes in the direction or significance of correlations among ecosystem services were observed across the pixel and town scales in 2000 and 2010. Conclusions: This study contributes to increasing the understanding of the temporal variation of ecosystem service interactions caused by regional ecological restoration programs, and the spatial scale dependency of the interactions.
- Subjects
CHINA; SPATIO-temporal variation; ECOSYSTEM services; FOOD production; HABITAT conservation; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; LAND use; MANAGEMENT
- Publication
Landscape Ecology, 2017, Vol 32, Issue 6, p1201
- ISSN
0921-2973
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10980-017-0497-8