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Understanding the relationships between ecosystem services and associated social-ecological drivers in a karst region: A case study of Guizhou Province, China
Qiu, S.; Peng, J.; Dong, J. et al.
2021In Progress in Physical Geography
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Keywords :
Ecosystem service bundle
Abstract :
[en] Understanding the relationships among multiple ecosystem services could improve the landscape capacity to provide benefits to human society. However, the underlying mechanisms shaping ecosystem services relationships are still unclear although some studies have been conducted to explore how natural and socioeconomic factors influence the relationships among ecosystem services. In this study, the karst landscape in southwestern China, a vulnerable system with intensive human activities, was focused on, aiming to explore relationships between ecosystem services and associated social and ecological factors. The results showed that the distribution of eight individual ecosystem services were spatially heterogeneous and clustered based on the characteristics of the karst landscape. The relationships between provisioning services and regulating services, such as grain production and net primary productivity, as well as water yield and soil retention, were quite different in high karst coverage regions and low karst coverage regions. Among five ecosystem service bundles identified, ecosystem services in the urban development bundle were mainly determined by socioeconomic factors, while in the other four bundles of multifunction, grain production, habitat conservation, and carbon sequestration, ecosystem services were dominated by ecological factors. However, socioeconomic factors (i.e. population density and night-time light intensity) appeared to explain the overall ecosystem service delivery more than karst terrain. This study provided insights for sustainable ecosystem management in a vulnerable karst region through exploring social-ecological factors of the relationships among ecosystem services. © The Author(s) 2020.
Disciplines :
Biochemistry, biophysics & molecular biology
Author, co-author :
Qiu, S.;  Peking University, China
Peng, J.;  Peking University, China
Dong, J.;  Peking University, China
Wang, X.;  Peking University, China
Ding, Z.;  Peking University, China
Zhang, H.
Mao, Q.;  Peking University, China
Liu, H.;  Peking University, China
Quine, T. A.;  University of Exeter, United Kingdom
Meersmans, Jeroen ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département GxABT > Analyse des risques environnementaux
Language :
English
Title :
Understanding the relationships between ecosystem services and associated social-ecological drivers in a karst region: A case study of Guizhou Province, China
Publication date :
2021
Journal title :
Progress in Physical Geography
ISSN :
0309-1333
eISSN :
1477-0296
Publisher :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
Funders :
National Natural Science Foundation of China, NSFC: 41571130044
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