Relationship between paired ecosystem services in the grassland and agro-pastoral transitional zone of China using the constraint line method

Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment

Volumn 240, Issue , 2017, Pages 171-181

  Hao, Ruifang ^a   Yu, Deyong ^a   Wu, Jianguo ^a,b  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecological process; Scale effect; Scatter cloud; Synergy; Threshold; Tradeoff

Indexed keywords

ECOREGION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; GRASSLAND; LAND USE PLANNING; PASTORALISM; SCALE EFFECT; SOIL CONSERVATION; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; SYNERGISM; THRESHOLD; TRADE-OFF; WATER RETENTION; WATER YIELD; WIND EROSION;

CHINA;

EID: 85013825662     PISSN: 01678809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2017.02.015     Document Type: Article

References (61)

1. Allen, R.G., Pereira, L.S., Raes, D., Smith, M., Crop evapotranspiration: guidelines for computing crop water requirements. FAO Irrig. Drain. Pap., 56, 1998.
2. Bai, Y., Zhuang, C., Ouyang, Z., Zheng, H., Jiang, B., Spatial characteristics between biodiversity and ecosystem services in a human-dominated watershed. Ecol. Complex. 8 (2011), 177–183.
3. Bennett, E.M., Peterson, G.D., Gordon, L.J., Understanding relationships among multiple ecosystem services. Ecol. Lett. 12 (2009), 1394–1404.
4. Blackburn, T.M., Lawton, J.H., Perry, J.N., A method of estimating the slope of upper bounds of plots of body size and abundance in natural animal assemblages. Oikos 65 (1992), 107–112.
5. Buergi, M., Silbernagel, J., Wu, J., Kienast, F., Linking ecosystem services with landscape history. Landsc. Ecol. 30 (2015), 11–20.
6. Butler, J.R.A., Wong, G.Y., Metcalfe, D.J., Honzak, M., Pert, P.L., Rao, N., van Grieken, M.E., Lawson, T., Bruce, C., Kroon, F.J., Brodie, J.E., An analysis of trade-offs between multiple ecosystem services and stakeholders linked to land use and water quality management in the Great Barrier Reef Agriculture Australia. Ecosyst. Environ. 180 (2013), 176–191.
7. Cade, B.S., Guo, Q.F., Estimating effects of constraints on plant performance with regression quantiles. Oikos 91 (2000), 245–254.
8. Cai, C., Ding, S., Shi, Z., Huang, L., Zhang, G., Study of applying USLE and geographical information system IDRISI to protect soil erosion in small watershed. J. Soil Water Conserv. 14 (2000), 19–24, 10.13870/j.cnki.stbcxb.2000.02.005.
9. Cao, S., Chen, L., Yu, X., Impact of China's grain for Grain Project on the landscape of vulnerable arid and semi-arid agricultural regions; a case study in northern Shaanxi province. J. Appl. Ecol. 46 (2009), 536–543, 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2008.01605.x.
10. Cao, Q., Yu, D., Georgescu, M., Han, Z., Wu, J., Impacts of land use and land cover change on regional climate: a case study in the argo-pastoral transitional zone of China. Environ. Res. Lett., 10(12), 2015, 124025, 10.1088/1748-9326/10/12/124025.
11. Castro, A.J., Verburg, P.H., Martin-Lopez, B., Garcia-Llorente, M., Cabello, J., Vaughn, C.C., Lopez, E., Ecosystem service trade-offs from supply to social demand: a landscape-scale spatial analysis. Landsc. Urban Plann. 132 (2014), 102–110.
12. Costanza, R., d'Arge, R., De Groot, R., Farber, S., Grasso, M., Hannon, B., Limburg, K., Naeem, S., O'neill, R.V., Paruelo, J., The value of the world's ecosystem services and natural capital. Ecol. Econ. 1 (1998), 3–15.
13. Costanza, R., de Groot, R., Sutton, P., van der Ploeg, S., Anderson, S.J., Kubiszewski, I., Farber, S., Turner, R.K., Changes in the global value of ecosystem services. Global Environ. Change 26 (2014), 152–158.
14. Daily, G., Nature's Services: Societal Dependence on Natural Ecosystems. 1997, Island Press.
15. Evanylo, G., Sumner, M., Utilization of the boundary line approach in the development of soil nutrient norms for soybean production 1. Commun. Soil Sci. Plant Anal. 18 (1987), 1379–1401.
16. Favretto, N., Stringer, L.C., Dougill, A.J., Dallimer, M., Perkins, J.S., Reed, M.S., Atlhopheng, J.R., Mulale, K., Multi-criteria decision analysis to identify dryland ecosystem service trade-offs under different rangeland land uses. Ecosyst. Serv. 17 (2016), 142–151.
17. Fryrear, D., Saleh, A., Bilbro, J., Schomberg, H., Stout, J., Zobeck, T., Revised wind erosion equation (RWEQ): wind erosion and water conservation research unit. Tech. Bull., 1, 1998.
18. Fu, B.J., Zhao, W.W., Chen, L.D., Zhang, Q.J., LU, Y.H., Gulinck, H., Poesen, J., Assessment of soil erosion at large watershed scale using RUSLE and GIS: a case study in the Loess Plateau of China. Land Degrad. Dev. 16 (2005), 73–85.
19. Fu, B.J., Wang, S., Su, C., Forsius, M., Linking ecosystem processes and ecosystem services. Curr. Opin. Environ. Sustain. 5 (2013), 4–10.
20. Gao, S.Y., Ha, S., Pan, Y.Z., Causes of rapid expansion of blown-sand disaster and long-term trend of desertification in Northern China. J. Nat. Disasters 9 (2000), 31–37, 10.13577/j.jnd.2000.0305.
21. Goldstein, J.H., Caldarone, G., Duarte, T.K., Ennaanay, D., Hannahs, N., Mendoza, G., Polasky, S., Wolny, S., Daily, G.C., Integrating ecosystem-service tradeoffs into land-use decisions. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 109 (2012), 7565–7570.
22. Gong, G., Liu, J., Shao, Q., Zhai, J., Sand-fixing function under the change of vegetation coverage in a wind erosion area in Northern China. J. Resour. Ecol. 5 (2014), 105–114, 10.5814/j.jssn.1674-764x.2014.02.002.
23. Guo, Q., Brown, J.H., Enquist, B.J., Using constraint lines to characterize plant performance. Oikos 83 (1998), 237–245.
24. Guo, Z., Zobeck, T.M., Zhang, K., Li, F., Estimating potential wind erosion of agricultural lands in northern China using the Revised Wind Erosion Equation and geographic information systems. J. Soil Water Conserv. 68 (2013), 13–21.
25. Horning, M., Constraint lines and performance envelopes in behavioral physiology: the case of the aerobic dive limit. Front. Physiol., 3, 2012.
26. Jansen, J.M., Pronker, A.E., Kube, S., Sokolowski, A., Sola, J.C., Marquiegui, M.A., Schiedek, D., Bonga, S.W., Wolowicz, M., Hummel, H., Geographic and seasonal patterns and limits on the adaptive response to temperature of European Mytilus spp. and Macoma balthica populations. Oecologia 154 (2007), 23–34.
27. Jia, X., Fu, B., Feng, X., Hou, G., Liu, Y., Wang, X., The tradeoff and synergy between ecosystem services in the grain-for-green areas in Northern Shaanxi, China. Ecol. Indic. 43 (2014), 103–113.
28. Jiang, L., Xiao, Y., Zheng, H., Ouyang, Z., Spatio-temporal variation of wind erosion in Inner Mongolia of China between 2001 and 2010. Chin. Geog. Sci. 26 (2016), 155–164, 10.1007/s11769-016-0797-y.
29. Jopke, C., Kreyling, J., Maes, J., Koellner, T., Interactions among ecosystem services across Europe: bagplots and cumulative correlation coefficients reveal synergies, trade-offs, and regional patterns. Ecol. Indic. 49 (2015), 46–52.
30. Lester, S.E., Costello, C., Halpern, B.S., Gaines, S.D., White, C., Barth, J.A., Evaluating tradeoffs among ecosystem services to inform marine spatial planning. Mar. Policy 38 (2013), 80–89.
31. Li, S., Liang, W., Fu, B., Lü, Y., Fu, S., Wang, S., Su, H., Vegetation changes in recent large-scale ecological restoration projects and subsequent impact on water resources in China's Loess Plateau. Sci. Total Environ. 569–570 (2016), 1031–1039, 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.06.141.
32. Li, Z., Wind tunnel simulation of flow velocity on the windward slope. Res. Soil Water Conserv. 6 (1999), 75–79.
33. Lu, N., Fu, B., Jin, T., Chang, R., Trade-off analyses of multiple ecosystem services by plantation along a precipitation gradient across Loess Plateau landscapes. Landsc. Ecol. 29 (2014), 1697–1708.
34. MA, Ecosystems and Human Well-being. 2005, Island Press, Washington, DC.
35. MA, Millennium Ecosystem, Assessment: Ecosystems and Human Well-being. 2005, Island Press, Washington, DC.
36. Medinski, T., Mills, A., Esler, K., Schmiedel, U., Jürgens, N., Do soil properties constrain species richness? Insights from boundary line analysis across several biomes in south western Africa. J. Arid Environ. 74 (2010), 1052–1060.
37. Mills, A., Fey, M., Gröngröft, A., Petersen, A., Medinski, T., Unravelling the effects of soil properties on water infiltration: segmented quantile regression on a large data set from arid south-west Africa. Soil Res. 44 (2006), 783–797.
38. Mills, A., Fey, M., Donaldson, J., Todd, S., Theron, L., Soil infiltrability as a driver of plant cover and species richness in the semi-arid Karoo, South Africa. Plant Soil 320 (2009), 321–332.
39. Potter, C.S., Randerson, J.T., Field, C.B., Matson, P.A., Vitousek, P.M., Mooney, H.A., Klooster, S.A., Terrestrial ecosystem production: a process model based on global satellite and surface data. Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 7, 1993.
40. Qiu, J., Tang, H., Study on the situation of soil organic carbon storage in ecotone between agriculture and animal husbandry-a case study from Inner Mongolia. Chin. J. Eco-Agric. 11 (2003), 86–88.
41. Qiu, J., Turner, M.G., Spatial interactions among ecosystem services in an urbanizing agricultural watershed. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 110 (2013), 12149–12154.
42. Raudsepp-Hearne, C., Peterson, G.D., Bennett, E.M., Ecosystem service bundles for analyzing tradeoffs in diverse landscapes. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 107 (2010), 5242–5247.
43. Renard, K.G., Foster, G.R., Weesies, G.A., Porter, J.P., RUSLE: revised universal soil loss equation. J. Soil Water Conserv. 46 (1991), 30–33.
44. Roberts, J.H., Angermeier, P.L., Spatiotemporal variability of stream habitat and movement of three species of fish. Oecologia 151 (2007), 417–430.
45. Ruijs, A., Wossink, A., Kortelainen, M., Alkemade, R., Schulp, C.J.E., Trade-off analysis of ecosystem services in Eastern Europe. Ecosyst. Serv. 4 (2013), 82–94.
46. Sanon, S., Hein, T., Douven, W., Winkler, P., Quantifying ecosystem service trade-offs: the case of an urban floodplain in Vienna, Austria. J. Environ. Manage. 111 (2012), 159–172.
47. Sharp, R., Tallis, H.T., Ricketts, T., Guerry, A.D., Wood, S.A., Chaplin-Kramer, R., et al., 2015. InVEST + VERSION + User's Guide. The Natural Capital Project, Stanford University, University of Minnesota, The Nature Conservancy, and World Wildlife Fund.
48. Thomson, J.D., Weiblen, G., Thomson, B.A., Alfaro, S., Legendre, P., Untangling multiple factors in spatial distributions: lilies, gophers, and rocks. Ecology 77 (1996), 1698–1715.
49. Wang, J., Xu, X., Liu, P., Landuse and land carrying capacity in ecotone between agriculture and animal husbandry in northern China. Resour. Sci. 21 (1999), 19–24.
50. Webb, R., Use of the boundary line in the analysis of biological data. J. Hortic. Sci. 47 (1972), 309–319.
51. Wischmeier, W., Smith, D., Rainfall-erosion losses from cropland east of the rocky mountains, guide for selection of practices for soil and water conservation. Agric. Handb., 282, 1965.
52. Wong, C.P., Jiang, B., Kinzig, A.P., Lee, K.N., Ouyang, Z., Linking ecosystem characteristics to final ecosystem services for public policy. Ecol. Lett. 18 (2015), 108–118.
53. Wu, X., Akujärvi, A., Lu, N., Liski, J., Liu, G., Wang, Y., Holmberg, M., Li, F., Zeng, Y., Fu, B., Dynamics of soil organic carbon stock in a typical catchment of the Loess Plateau: comparison of model simulations with measurements. Landsc. Ecol. 30 (2015), 381–397.
54. Wu, J., Effects of changing scale on landscape pattern analysis: scaling relations. Landsc. Ecol. 19 (2004), 125–138.
55. Wu, J., Landscape sustainability science: ecosystem services and human well-being in changing landscapes. Landsc. Ecol. 28 (2013), 999–1023.
56. Zhang, X., Shi, P., Theory and practice of marginal ecosystem management-establishment of optimized eco-productive paradigm of grassland and farming-pastoral zone of north China. Acta Bot. Sin. 45 (2003), 1135–1138.
57. Zhang, L., Hickel, K., Dawes, W.R., Chiew, F.H., Western, A.W., Briggs, P.R., A rational function approach for estimating mean annual evapotranspiration. Water Resour. Res. 40 (2004), 89–97.
58. Zhang, L., Fu, B., Lü, Y., Zeng, Y., Balancing multiple ecosystem services in conservation. Landsc. Ecol. 30 (2015), 535–546.
59. Zheng, Z., Fu, B., Hu, H., Sun, G., A method to identify the variable ecosystem services relationship across time: a case study on Yanhe Basin, China. Landsc. Ecol. 29 (2014), 1689–1696.
60. Zhou, W., Liu, G., Pan, J., Feng, X., Distribution of available soil water capacity in China. J. Geog. Sci. 15 (2005), 3–12, 10.1007/BF02873101.
61. Zhu, W.Q., Pan, Y.Z., Zhang, J.S., Estimation of net primary productivity of Chinese terrestrial vegetation based on remote sensing. J. Plant Ecol. 31 (2007), 413–424.