Spatiotemporal variations in ecosystem services and their trade-offs and synergies against the background of the gully control and land consolidation project on the Loess Plateau, China

doi:10.1007/s40333-024-0091-2

Journal of Arid Land

2024, Vol. 16

Issue (1): 131-145 DOI: 10.1007/s40333-024-0091-2

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Spatiotemporal variations in ecosystem services and their trade-offs and synergies against the background of the gully control and land consolidation project on the Loess Plateau, China

WANG Jing¹^,², WEI Yulu¹^,²^,³, PENG Biao⁴^,^*(

), LIU Siqi¹^,², LI Jianfeng¹^,²

¹Key Laboratory of Degraded and Unused Land Consolidation Engineering, Ministry of Natural and Resources, Xi'an 710075, China
²Institute of Land Engineering and Technology, Shaanxi Provincial Land Engineering Construction Group Co., Ltd., Xi'an 710021, China
³School of Human Settlements and Civil Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China
⁴Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Land Consolidation, Xi'an 710064, China

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Abstract

Studying the spatiotemporal variations in ecosystem services and their interrelationships on the Loess Plateau against the background of the gully control and land consolidation (GCLC) project has significant implications for ecological protection and quality development of the Yellow River Basin. Therefore, in this study, we took Yan'an City, Shaanxi Province of China, as the study area, selected four typical ecosystem services, including soil conservation service, water yield service, carbon storage service, and habitat quality service, and quantitatively evaluated the spatiotemporal variation characteristics and trade-offs and synergies of ecosystem services from 2010 to 2018 using the Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Trade-offs (InVEST) model. We also analysed the relationship between the GCLC project and regional ecosystem service changes in various regions (including 1 city, 2 districts, and 10 counties) of Yan'an City and proposed a coordinated development strategy between the GCLC project and the ecological environment. The results showed that, from 2010 to 2018, soil conservation service decreased by 7.76%, while the other three ecosystem services changed relatively little, with water yield service increasing by 0.56% and carbon storage service and habitat quality service decreasing by 0.16% and 0.14%, respectively. The ecological environment of Yan'an City developed in a balanced way between 2010 and 2018, and the four ecosystem services showed synergistic relationships, among which the synergistic relationships between soil conservation service and water yield service and between carbon storage service and habitat quality service were significant. The GCLC project had a negative impact on the ecosystem services of Yan'an City, and the impact on carbon storage service was more significant. This study provides a theoretical basis for the scientific evaluation of the ecological benefits of the GCLC project and the realization of a win-win situation between food security and ecological security.

Key words： ecosystem services trade-offs and synergies gully control and land consolidation habitat quality Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Trade-offs (InVEST) model Loess Plateau

Received: 11 July 2023 Published: 31 January 2024

Corresponding Authors: *PENG Biao (E-mail: pengbiao1988@hotmail.com)

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WANG Jing, WEI Yulu, PENG Biao, LIU Siqi, LI Jianfeng. Spatiotemporal variations in ecosystem services and their trade-offs and synergies against the background of the gully control and land consolidation project on the Loess Plateau, China. Journal of Arid Land, 2024, 16(1): 131-145.

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Fig. 1 Location (a) and elevation (b) of the study area. Note that the boundaries of province, city, county, and district are derived from the Resource and Environmental Sciences and Data Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences (http://www.resdc.cn).

Table 1 Implementation scale of the gully control and land consolidation (GCLC) project in different regions of Yan'an City

Fig. 2 Spatial distribution of soil conservation in Yan'an City in 2010 (a) and 2018 (b) and the change in soil conservation during 2010-2018 (c)

Fig. 3 Spatial distribution of water yield in Yan'an City in 2010 (a) and 2018 (b) and the change in water yield during 2010-2018 (c)

Fig. 4 Spatial distribution of carbon storage in Yan'an City in 2010 (a) and 2018 (b) and the change in carbon storage during 2010-2018 (c)

Fig. 5 Spatial distribution of habitat quality in Yan'an City in 2010 (a) and 2018 (b) and the change in habitat quality during 2010-2018 (c)

Fig. 6 Comprehensive hotspot areas of ecosystem services in Yan'an City in 2010 (a) and 2018 (b)

Table 2 Correlation coefficients among ecosystem services

Table 3 Correlation between the implementation data of the GCLC project and the change in ecosystem services


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