Spatio-temporal Characteristics of Disturbance of Land Use Change on Major Ecosystem Function Zones in China

NING Jia; LIU Jiyuan; ZHAO Guosong

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NING Jia, LIU Jiyuan, ZHAO Guosong. Spatio-temporal Characteristics of Disturbance of Land Use Change on Major Ecosystem Function Zones in China[J]. Chinese Geographical Science, 2015, 25(5): 523-536. doi: 10.1007/s11769-015-0776-8

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NING Jia, LIU Jiyuan, ZHAO Guosong. Spatio-temporal Characteristics of Disturbance of Land Use Change on Major Ecosystem Function Zones in China[J]. Chinese Geographical Science, 2015, 25(5): 523-536. doi: 10.1007/s11769-015-0776-8

Spatio-temporal Characteristics of Disturbance of Land Use Change on Major Ecosystem Function Zones in China

doi: 10.1007/s11769-015-0776-8

1.
Key Laboratory of Land Surface Pattern and Simulation, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China;
2.
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

Funds: Under the auspices of National Key Basic Research Program of China (No. 2014CB954302), National Science and Technology Support Plan Project of China (No. 2013BAC03B04)

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Corresponding author: LIU Jiyuan.E-mail:liujy@igsnrr.ac.cn
Received Date: 2015-03-10
Rev Recd Date: 2015-05-05
Publish Date: 2015-05-27

Abstract

In recent years, because of increasing human activities, ecosystems have been substantially disturbed and their service functions have been greatly compromised. Based on the effect of land use changes on the major ecosystem services, we estimated the ecosystem comprehensive anthropogenic disturbance index (ECADI) and analyzed the spatio-temporal characteristics of changes in the ECADI in China from 1990 to 2010. The average ECADI of the major ecosystem function zones in China in 2010 is approximately 0.382. The ECADI of Northeast China and North China is slightly higher than that of Northwest China and Southwest China. Most zones have slight changes in the ECADI. The average increases of ECADI in the major ecosystem function zones in China from 1990 to 2000 and from 2000 to 2010 are 0.0024 and 0.0002, respectively. The increase is mainly due to reclamation and urbanization, whereas the decrease is due to the implementation of ecosystem protection policies. During the last 20 years, the ECADI of water resources conservation zones increased first, and then stopped. The ECADI of soil conservation zones increased first, and then declined. The ECADI of sandstorm prevention zones, biodiversity conservation zones and flooding mitigation zones increased continuously. Our results may provide proposals to the government regarding land use planning and ecosystem protection plans in the major ecosystem zones. The major ecosystem function zones in the western part of China have been protected effectively. However, the major ecosystem function zones in the eastern part of China require more protection in the future.
- land use change,
- major ecosystems services,
- disturbance,
- spatiotemporal patterns,
- China

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[26]	Lv Aifeng, Tian Hanqin, 2007. Interaction among climatic change, fire disturbance and ecosystem productivity. Journal of Plant Ecology, 31(2): 242-251. (in Chinese)
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[29]	Mooney H A, Duraiappah A, Larigauderie A, 2013. Evolution of natural and social science interactions in global change research programs. PNAS, 110(supp. 1): 3665-3672. doi: 10. 1073/pnas.1107484110
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[32]	Ouyang Zhiyun, Zheng Hua, Huang Baorong et al., 2009. Regional Ecological Assessment and Ecosystem Service Zoning. Beijing: China Environmental Science Press. (in Chinese)
[33]	Polasky S, Nelson E, Pennington D et al., 2011. The Impact of land-use change on ecosystem services, biodiversity and returns to landowners: a case study in the State of Minnesota. Environmental & Resource Economics, 48(2): 219-242. doi: 10.1007/s10640-010-9407-0
[34]	Polasky S, Segerson K, 2009. Integrating ecology and economics in the study of ecosystem services: some lessons learned. Annual Review of Resource Economics, 1: 409-434. doi: 10.1146/annurev.resource.050708.144110
[35]	Swetnam R D, Fisher B, Mbilinyi B P et al., 2011. Mapping socio-economic scenarios of land cover change: a GIS method to enable ecosystem service modelling. Journal of Environmental Management, 92(3): 563-574. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman. 2010.09.007
[36]	Tian H Q, Chen G, Zhang C et al., 2012. Century-scale response of ecosystem carbon storage to multifactorial global change in the southern United States. Ecosystems, 15: 674-694.
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[40]	Zhao Guosong, Liu Jiyuan, Kuang Wenhui et al., 2014. Disturbance impacts of land use change on biodiversity conservation priority areas across China during 1990-2010. Acta Geographica Sinica, 69(11): 1640-1650. (in Chinese)
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1. Key Laboratory of Land Surface Pattern and Simulation, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China;

2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

Funds: Under the auspices of National Key Basic Research Program of China (No. 2014CB954302), National Science and Technology Support Plan Project of China (No. 2013BAC03B04)

Corresponding author: LIU Jiyuan.E-mail:liujy@igsnrr.ac.cn

Received Date: 2015-03-10

Rev Recd Date: 2015-05-05

Publish Date: 2015-05-27

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Abstract: In recent years, because of increasing human activities, ecosystems have been substantially disturbed and their service functions have been greatly compromised. Based on the effect of land use changes on the major ecosystem services, we estimated the ecosystem comprehensive anthropogenic disturbance index (ECADI) and analyzed the spatio-temporal characteristics of changes in the ECADI in China from 1990 to 2010. The average ECADI of the major ecosystem function zones in China in 2010 is approximately 0.382. The ECADI of Northeast China and North China is slightly higher than that of Northwest China and Southwest China. Most zones have slight changes in the ECADI. The average increases of ECADI in the major ecosystem function zones in China from 1990 to 2000 and from 2000 to 2010 are 0.0024 and 0.0002, respectively. The increase is mainly due to reclamation and urbanization, whereas the decrease is due to the implementation of ecosystem protection policies. During the last 20 years, the ECADI of water resources conservation zones increased first, and then stopped. The ECADI of soil conservation zones increased first, and then declined. The ECADI of sandstorm prevention zones, biodiversity conservation zones and flooding mitigation zones increased continuously. Our results may provide proposals to the government regarding land use planning and ecosystem protection plans in the major ecosystem zones. The major ecosystem function zones in the western part of China have been protected effectively. However, the major ecosystem function zones in the eastern part of China require more protection in the future.

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[1]	Ba?nou C, Alvarez E, Bagaria G et al., 2013. Spatial patterns of land use changes across a Mediterranean metropolitan landscape: implications for biodiversity management. Environmental Management, 52(4): 971-980. doi: 10.1007/s00267-013-0150-5
[2]	Battin J, Wiley M W, Ruckelshaus M H et al., 2007. Projected impacts of climate change on salmon habitat restoration. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), 104(16): 6720-6725. doi: 10. 1073/pnas.0701685104
[3]	Chen Liding, Fu Bojie, 2000. Ecological signif icance, characteristics and types of disturbance. Acta Ecologica Sinica, 20(4): 581-586. (in Chinese)
[4]	Chen Xiaoyan, Liang Zongsuo, Du Feng et al., 2007. The effect of disturbance on the structure and form of three typical communities in Loess hilly region of the northern of Shanxi Province. Acta Ecologica Sinica, 27(7): 3061-3071. (in Chinese)
[5]	Costanza R, dArge R, deGroot R et al., 1997. The value of the world's ecosystem services and natural capital. Nature, 387(6630): 253-260. doi: 10.1038/387253a0
[6]	Daily G C, 1997. Nature's Services: Societal Dependence on Natural Ecosystems. Washington D. C.: Island Press.
[7]	Daily G C, Matson P A, 2008. Ecosystem services: from theory to implementation. PNAS, 105(28): 9455-9456. doi: 10.1073/ pnas.0804960105
[8]	Daily G C, Polasky S, Goldstein J et al., 2009. Ecosystem services in decision making: time to deliver. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 7(1): 21-28. doi: 10.1890/080025
[9]	Du Z, Shen Y, Wang J et al., 2009. Land-use change and its ecological responses: a pilot study of typical agro-pastoral region in the Heihe River, Northwest China. Environmental Geology, 58(7): 1549-1556. doi: 10.1007/s00254-008-1656-7
[10]	Ehrlich P R, Kareiva P M, Daily G C, 2012. Securing natural capital and expanding equity to rescale civilization. Nature, 486: 68-73. doi: 10.1038/nature11157
[11]	Farina A, 1998. Principles and Method in Landscape Ecology. London: Chapman and Hall.
[12]	Folke C, Carpenter S, Elmqvist T et al., 2002. Resilience and sustainable development: building adaptive capacity in a world of transformations. Ambio, 31(5): 437-440. doi: 10.1579/0044-7447-31.5.437
[13]	Fu Bojie, Liu Guohua, Ouyang Zhiyun, 2013. Ecological Regionalization in China. Beijing: Science Press. (in Chinese)
[14]	Gascoigne W R, Hoag D, Koontz L et al., 2011. Valuing ecosystem and economic services across land-use scenarios in the Prairie Pothole Region of the Dakotas, USA. Ecological Economics, 70(10): 1715-1725. doi: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2011.04. 010
[15]	Hobbs R J, Huenneke L F, 1992. Disturbance, diversity, and invasion: implications for conservation. Conservation Biology, 6(3): 324-337. doi: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.1992.06030324.x
[16]	Hu Haiqing, Wei Shujing, Sun Long et al., 2013. Interaction among climate change, fire disturbance and ecosystem carbon cycle. Arid Land Geography, 36(1): 57-75. (in Chinese)
[17]	Lee Hannah, David Lohse, Charles Hutchinson et al., 1994. A Preliminary Inventory of Human Disturbance of World Ecosystems. Ambio, 23(4-5): 246-250.
[18]	Li J, 2012. Rural Household Livelihoods and Environmental Sustainability in the West of China. Beijing: Social Sciences Academic Press. (in Chinese)
[19]	Li J, Feldman M, Li S et al., 2011. Rural household income and inequality under the Sloping Land Conversion Program in western China. PNAS, 108(19): 7721-7726. doi: 10.1073/pnas. 1101018108
[20]	Li T, Li W, Qian Z, 2010. Variations in ecosystem service value in response to land use changes in Shenzhen. Ecological Economics, 69(7): 1427-1435. doi: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2008.05. 018
[21]	Li Yanmei, Niu Dong, Zhang Zhiqiang et al., 2009. Review of international scientific programmes and frontiers of biodiversity research. Acta Ecologica Sinica, 29(4): 2115-2123. (in Chinese)
[22]	Li Yifeng, Luo Yuechu, Liu Gang et al., 2013. Effects of land use change on ecosystem services, a case study in Miyun reservoir watershed. Acta Ecologica Sinica, 33(3): 726-736. (in Chinese)
[23]	Liu J, Li S, Ouyang Z Y et al., 2008. Ecological and socioeconomic effects of China's policies for ecosystem services. PNAS, 105(28): 9477-9482. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0706436105
[24]	Liu Jiyuan, 1992. Land Use in the Tibet Autonomous Region. Beijing: Science Press. (in Chinese)
[25]	Liu Jiyuan, Zhang Zengxiang, Xu Xinliang et al., 2010. Spatial patterns and driving forces of land use change in China during the early 21st century. Journal of Geographical Sciences, 20(4): 483-494. doi: 10.1007/s11442-010-0483-4
[26]	Lv Aifeng, Tian Hanqin, 2007. Interaction among climatic change, fire disturbance and ecosystem productivity. Journal of Plant Ecology, 31(2): 242-251. (in Chinese)
[27]	Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, 2005. Ecosystems and Human Well-being. Washington D. C.: Island Press.
[28]	Ministry of Environmental Protection of the People￠s Republic of China (MEPC), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), 2008. National Ecosystem Function Regionalization. (in Chinese)
[29]	Mooney H A, Duraiappah A, Larigauderie A, 2013. Evolution of natural and social science interactions in global change research programs. PNAS, 110(supp. 1): 3665-3672. doi: 10. 1073/pnas.1107484110
[30]	Nelson E, Sander H, Hawthorne P et al., 2010. Projecting global land-use change and its effect on ecosystem service provision and biodiversity with simple models. PLoS ONE, 5(12): e14327. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0014327
[31]	Ouyang Zhiyun, Wang Rusong, Zhao Jingzhu, 1999. Ecosystem services and their economic valuation. Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology, 10(5): 635-640. (in Chinese)
[32]	Ouyang Zhiyun, Zheng Hua, Huang Baorong et al., 2009. Regional Ecological Assessment and Ecosystem Service Zoning. Beijing: China Environmental Science Press. (in Chinese)
[33]	Polasky S, Nelson E, Pennington D et al., 2011. The Impact of land-use change on ecosystem services, biodiversity and returns to landowners: a case study in the State of Minnesota. Environmental & Resource Economics, 48(2): 219-242. doi: 10.1007/s10640-010-9407-0
[34]	Polasky S, Segerson K, 2009. Integrating ecology and economics in the study of ecosystem services: some lessons learned. Annual Review of Resource Economics, 1: 409-434. doi: 10.1146/annurev.resource.050708.144110
[35]	Swetnam R D, Fisher B, Mbilinyi B P et al., 2011. Mapping socio-economic scenarios of land cover change: a GIS method to enable ecosystem service modelling. Journal of Environmental Management, 92(3): 563-574. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman. 2010.09.007
[36]	Tian H Q, Chen G, Zhang C et al., 2012. Century-scale response of ecosystem carbon storage to multifactorial global change in the southern United States. Ecosystems, 15: 674-694.
[37]	Wardrop D H, Glasmeier A K, Peterson-Smith J et al., 2011. Wetland ecosystem services and coupled socioeconomic benefits through conservation practices in the Appalachian Region. Ecological Applications, 21(3): S93-S115.
[38]	Xu H G, Tang X P, Liu J Y et al., 2009. China's progress toward the significant reduction of the rate of biodiversity loss. BioScience, 59(10): 843-852. doi: 10.1525/bio.2009. 59.10.6
[39]	Zhang Zengxiang, Zhao Xiaoli, Wang Xiao, 2012. Land Use Remote Sensing Monitoring in China. Beijing: Star Map Press. (in Chinese)
[40]	Zhao Guosong, Liu Jiyuan, Kuang Wenhui et al., 2014. Disturbance impacts of land use change on biodiversity conservation priority areas across China during 1990-2010. Acta Geographica Sinica, 69(11): 1640-1650. (in Chinese)
[41]	Zhao Shidong, Zhang Yongmin, 2006. Ecosystems and human well-being: the achievements, contributions and prospects of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. Advances in Earth Science, 21(9): 865-872. (in Chinese)
[42]	Zhou Ling, Shangguan Tieliang, Guo Donggang et al., 2012. Response of species diversity in Caragana Korshinskii communities to climate factors and grazing disturbance in Shanxi, Shaanxi, Ningxia and Inner Mongolia. Acta Ecologica Sinica, 32(1): 111-122. (in Chinese)

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