Assessment and analysis of ecosystem services value along the Yangtze River under the background of the Yangtze River protection strategy

Liang ZHENG; Hai LIU; Yuefei HUANG; Shoujing YIN; Gui JIN

doi:10.1007/s11442-020-1742-7

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Journal of Geographical Sciences
Vol. 30, Issue 4, 553 (2020)

Assessment and analysis of ecosystem services value along the Yangtze River under the background of the Yangtze River protection strategy

Liang ZHENG¹, Hai LIU^1,4, Yuefei HUANG¹, Shoujing YIN², and Gui JIN^3,*

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¹Faculty of Resources and Environmental Science, Hubei University, Wuhan 430062, China

²Ministry of Environmental Protection, Satellite Environment Center, Beijing 100094, China

³College of Urban and Environment Science, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China

⁴School of Remote Sensing and Information, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430062, China

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Liang ZHENG, Hai LIU, Yuefei HUANG, Shoujing YIN, Gui JIN. Assessment and analysis of ecosystem services value along the Yangtze River under the background of the Yangtze River protection strategy[J]. Journal of Geographical Sciences, 2020, 30(4): 553 Copy Citation Text

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Fig. 1. Location map of the Yangtze River Basin

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Fig. 2. Ecosystem services value along the upper, middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River in 2017

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Fig. 3. Ecosystem services values in the provincial-level regions along the Yangtze River in 2017

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Fig. 4. Unit area ecosystem services value along the Yangtze River in 2017

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Fig. 5. Increment of ecosystem services value along the Yangtze River in 2017

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Provisioning services	Regulating services	Supporting services	Cultural services
Food production (FP)Raw material production (RP)Water supply (WS)	Gas regulation (GR)Climate regulation (CR)Environmental purification (EP)Hydrological regulation (HR)	Soil retention (SR)Species diversity (SD)	Aesthetic landscapes (AL)

Table 1.

Classification of ecosystem services

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Ecosystem service equivalent value per unit area
Ecosystem classification		Provisioning services			Regulating services				Supporting services		Cultural services
Primary classification	Secondary classification	FP	RP	WS	GR	CR	EP	HR	SR	SD	AL
Farmland	Dry land	0.85	0.4	0.02	0.67	0.36	0.1	0.27	1.03	0.13	0.06
Farmland	Paddy field	1.36	0.09	-2.63	1.11	0.57	0.17	2.72	0.01	0.21	0.09
Forest	Coniferous and broad-leaved mixed forest	0.31	0.71	0.37	2.35	7.03	1.99	3.51	2.86	2.6	1.14
Grassland	Shrub	0.19	0.43	0.22	1.41	4.23	1.28	3.35	1.72	1.57	0.69
Grassland	Shrubs	0.38	0.56	0.31	1.97	5.21	1.72	3.82	2.4	2.18	0.96
Wetlands	Wetlands	0.51	0.5	2.59	1.9	3.6	3.6	24.23	2.31	7.87	4.73
Desert	Desert	0.01	0.03	0.02	0.11	0.1	0.31	0.21	0.13	0.12	0.05
Desert	Bare land	0	0	0	0.02	0	0.1	0.03	0.02	0.02	0.01
Waters	River system	0.8	0.23	8.29	0.77	2.29	5.55	102.24	0.93	2.55	1.89

Table 2.

Ecosystem service equivalent value per unit area (yuan/ha)

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Equivalent factor	China	Qinghai	Tibet	Sichuan	Yunnan	Chong-qing	Hubei	Hunan	Jiangxi	Anhui	Jiangsu
2010	481.19	359.49	518.53	487	346.53	498.41	550.65	572.8	519.6	450.43	592.64
2017	532.66	349.69	540.32	525.41	419.84	504.3	562.41	593.69	561.09	506.25	633.41

Table 3.

Correction of the ecosystem services value per unit area (yuan/ha) of the Yangtze River Basin

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	Region	Upper reaches		Middle reaches		Lower reaches
	Region	1 km	2 km	1 km	2 km	1 km	2 km
Provisioning services	FP	1.83	3.05	1.76	2.69	1.35	2.00
	RP	1.35	2.41	0.53	0.76	0.38	0.51
	WS	4.92	4.42	6.25	5.26	6.43	5.97
Regulating services	GR	4.94	8.87	2.29	3.53	1.62	2.35
	CR	12.84	22.85	4.90	6.93	3.49	4.46
	EP	7.17	10.29	6.12	7.03	5.52	6.19
	HR	76.70	86.75	99.26	107.53	92.84	101.17
Supporting services	SR	5.36	9.49	1.92	2.65	1.43	1.78
Supporting services	SD	6.15	10.02	3.65	4.57	3.29	3.87
Cultural services	AL	3.23	4.96	2.36	2.82	2.21	2.54

Table 4.

Value of different ecosystem services in the Yangtze River Basin in 2017 (billion yuan)

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Province	Provisioning services			Regulating services				Supporting services		Cultural services
Province	FP	RP	WS	GR	CR	EP	HR	SR	SD	AL
Qinghai	0.0888	0.0865	0.5345	0.2902	0.8274	0.5401	6.5251	0.3537	0.4219	0.2317
Tibet	0.0497	0.0696	0.0951	0.2322	0.6378	0.2315	1.1288	0.2845	0.2641	0.1217
Sichuan	0.5278	0.4126	1.2240	1.4929	3.8585	1.9934	19.4919	1.6417	1.8025	0.9243
Yunnan	0.4623	0.4130	0.7399	1.4977	3.9535	1.7036	13.3708	1.6477	1.7023	0.8297
Chongqing	0.7058	0.3711	2.3247	1.4290	3.5615	2.6985	36.1861	1.4362	1.9590	1.1249
Hubei	1.2793	0.4184	5.0206	1.7553	3.9179	4.7731	76.7507	1.5561	2.8869	1.8580
Hunan	0.1489	0.0312	0.3402	0.1603	0.2808	0.3909	6.5989	0.1029	0.2228	0.1475
Jiangxi	0.3294	0.0763	0.8858	0.3731	0.6996	0.9517	15.9076	0.2617	0.5429	0.3579
Anhui	0.6930	0.1949	2.6488	0.8452	1.7636	2.4713	41.0256	0.7056	1.4649	0.9679
Jiangsu	0.5792	0.1668	3.6851	0.6678	1.5509	2.8647	49.5145	0.6443	1.6248	1.1231
Shanghai	0.0743	0.0214	0.0947	0.1034	0.1728	0.1803	2.3006	0.0784	0.1977	0.1202
Total	4.9383	2.2616	17.5933	8.8472	21.2243	18.7990	268.8007	8.7127	13.0897	7.8070

Table 5.

Ecosystem services value of provinces in 1 km along the Yangtze River in 2017 (billion yuan)

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Province	Provisioning services			Regulating services				Supporting services		Cultural services
Province	FP	RP	WS	GR	CR	EP	HR	SR	SD	AL
Qinghai	0.1360	0.1658	0.6309	0.5587	1.5916	0.8025	7.6446	0.6807	0.7299	0.3721
Tibet	0.0921	0.1356	0.1295	0.4485	1.2359	0.4127	1.4988	0.5502	0.4970	0.2242
Sichuan	0.9252	0.7399	1.0231	2.7135	6.9125	2.9420	22.3420	2.9174	2.9888	1.4504
Yunnan	0.7629	0.7825	0.7285	2.8046	7.5283	2.7674	15.9221	3.1201	3.0620	1.4293
Chongqing	1.1381	0.5844	1.9039	2.3408	5.5787	3.3670	39.3446	2.2183	2.7440	1.4803
Hubei	2.0489	0.6096	4.1675	2.7886	5.5997	5.5100	83.2283	2.1601	3.6448	2.2321
Hunan	0.2524	0.0452	0.2274	0.2627	0.3933	0.4650	7.6276	0.1352	0.2814	0.1797
Jiangxi	0.3853	0.1015	0.8639	0.4829	0.9351	1.0541	16.6703	0.3547	0.6477	0.4092
Anhui	1.0070	0.2531	2.3904	1.1915	2.2195	2.7624	44.6651	0.8684	1.7111	1.1021
Jiangsu	0.8026	0.2086	3.5493	0.9202	1.8903	3.1166	52.6429	0.7676	1.8346	1.2410
Shanghai	0.1869	0.0442	0.0316	0.2337	0.3500	0.3094	3.8588	0.1471	0.3275	0.1942
Total	7.7373	3.6705	15.6460	14.746	34.2348	23.5090	295.4449	13.9198	18.4686	10.3145