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- Title
Identifying Ecosystem Service Trade-Offs and Their Response to Landscape Patterns at Different Scales in an Agricultural Basin in Central China.
- Authors
Li, Kun; Chen, Junchen; Lin, Jingyu; Zhang, Huanyu; Xie, Yujing; Li, Zhaohua; Wang, Ling
- Abstract
Identifying relationships among multiple ecosystem services (ESs) at different scales and the factors affecting such relationships is the foundation for sustainable ecosystem management. A case study was conducted in the Sihu Lake Basin, an agricultural basin in Central China, to examine the interactions among ESs across different scales and the responses to landscape pattern changes (2000–2020). The results indicate that (1) agricultural land and wetlands were converted into construction land and gradually decreased in size; forestland and artificial channels gradually increased in size. (2) ESs had spatial heterogeneity in their strength at the grid and county scales. (3) Most relationships between ESs were synergistic at the grid and county scales, and most correlations increased as the scale increased due to landscape consistency. (4) The landscape metrics explained approximately 45.56–61.06% of the variations in ESs, and the main influencing factor was agricultural land. Our results demonstrated that the construction of rivers and channels, dense and widely distributed agricultural land and construction land were more positively correlated with increasing crop production and nitrogen export, whereas forestland exhibited a stronger contribution to increasing carbon storage and water yield. These findings explore appropriate management methods for agricultural development and ecological conservation in agricultural basins.
- Subjects
ECOSYSTEM services; AGRICULTURAL conservation; ECOSYSTEM management; AGRICULTURAL development; RIVER channels; FORAGE
- Publication
Land (2012), 2022, Vol 11, Issue 8, p1336
- ISSN
2073-445X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/land11081336