[Responses of regional ecological service value to land use change: A case study of Shapingba County in Chongqing].
Land use has significant effects on the products and services provided by ecosystem, through its interaction with ecosystem processes and services. Taking Shapingba County in Chongqing as an example, and by the Costanza method and ecological sensitivity analysis, this paper analyzed the effects of land use change on ecological service value. The results indicated that from 1992 to 2002, the ecological service value of this County was from dollar 1.74 x 10(7) to dollar 16.8 x 10(7), i. e. , dollar 0.54 x 10(5) was lost. Accordingly, each hectare land suffered an average loss of dollar 13.62. The ecological service value coefficient assigned to different categories of land use had little effects on the total ecological service value, and the total change of ecological service value was inelastic. The summation of the ecological service value coefficients assigned to cultivated land, forestland and garden land was very close to regional actualities. But, the ecological service value coefficient assigned to the waters was higher than the actual value, while rectifying 30 percent of the previous coefficient by 5 667 dollar x hm(-2) x yr(-1) would be very close to the actual one. Applying Costanza method to estimate the change of regional ecological service value was practicable, and would make a reference for the evaluation of land use benefits and the organization of land use planning.
Wang
Cheng
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College of Resource and Environment, Southwest University, Chongqing 400716, China. wchorange@163.com
Wei
Chaofu
C
Shao
Jing'an
J
Gao
Ming
M
Jiang
Wei
W
D002681:China; D002958:City Planning; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D018556:Crops, Agricultural / Q000254:growth & development*; D004463:Ecology / Q000191:economics*; D017753:Ecosystem; D004784:Environmental Monitoring; D012987:Soil / Q000032:analysis*
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