[Evaluation of ecosystem provisioning service and its economic value].
Aiming at the fact that the current approaches of evaluating the efficacy of ecosystem provisioning service were lack of spatial information and did not take the accessibility of products into account, this paper established an evaluation model to simulate the spatial distribution of ecosystem provisioning service and its economic value, based on ArcGIS 9. 2 and taking the supply and demand factors of ecosystem products into account. The provision of timber product in Laojunshan in 2000 was analyzed with the model. In 2000, the total physical quantity of the timber' s provisioning service in Laojunshan was 11.12 x 10(4) m3 x a(-1), occupying 3.2% of the total increment of timber stock volume. The total provisioning service value of timber was 6669.27 x 10(4) yuan, among which, coniferous forest contributed most (90.41%). Due to the denser distribution of populations and roads in the eastern area of Laojunshan, some parts of the area being located outside of conservancy district, and forests being in scattered distribution, the spatial distribution pattern of the physical quantity of timber's provisioning service was higher in the eastern than in the western area.
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Nan
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Chengdu Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610041, China. wunan0223@163.com
Gao
Ji-Xi
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Sudebilige
Ricketts
Taylor H
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Olwero
Nasser
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Luo
Zun-Lan
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D002681:China; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources / Q000191:economics*; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis / Q000191:economics; D004463:Ecology / Q000191:economics*; D017753:Ecosystem; D004777:Environment; D004784:Environmental Monitoring / Q000191:economics; D018803:Models, Economic; D014197:Trees / Q000254:growth & development*; D014934:Wood / Q000191:economics*