title: Socioeconomic influences on biodiversity, ecosystem services and human well-being: a quantitative application of the DPSIR model in Jiangsu, China.
abstract: One focus of ecosystem service research is the connection between biodiversity, ecosystem services and human well-being as well as the socioeconomic influences on them. Despite existing investigations, exact impacts from the human system on the dynamics of biodiversity, ecosystem services and human well-being are still uncertain because of the insufficiency of the respective quantitative analyses. Our research aims are discerning the socioeconomic influences on biodiversity, ecosystem services and human well-being and demonstrating mutual impacts between these items. We propose a DPSIR framework coupling ecological integrity, ecosystem services as well as human well-being and suggest DPSIR indicators for the case study area Jiangsu, China. Based on available statistical and surveying data, we revealed the factors significantly impacting biodiversity, ecosystem services and human well-being in the research area through factor analysis and correlation analysis, using the 13 prefecture-level cities of Jiangsu as samples. The results show that urbanization and industrialization in the urban areas have predominant positive influences on regional biodiversity, agricultural productivity and tourism services as well as rural residents' living standards. Additionally, the knowledge, technology and finance inputs for agriculture also have generally positive impacts on these system components. Concerning regional carbon storage, non-cropland vegetation cover obviously plays a significant positive role. Contrarily, the expansion of farming land and the increase of total food production are two important negative influential factors of biodiversity, ecosystem's food provisioning service capacity, regional tourism income and the well-being of the rural population. Our study provides a promising approach based on the DPSIR model to quantitatively capture the socioeconomic influential factors of biodiversity, ecosystem services and human well-being for human-environmental systems at regional scales.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Natural Resource Conservation, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Olshausenstr.75, 24118 Kiel, Germany. Electronic address: yhou@ecology.uni-kiel.de.
authors.forename: Ying
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Hou
authors.affiliation: College of Economics and Management, Nanjing Agricultural University, 210095 Nanjing, China.
authors.forename: Shudong
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.affiliation: Institute for Natural Resource Conservation, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Olshausenstr.75, 24118 Kiel, Germany; Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research ZALF, Eberswalder Straße 84, 15374 Müncheberg, Germany.
authors.forename: Benjamin
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Burkhard
authors.affiliation: Institute for Natural Resource Conservation, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Olshausenstr.75, 24118 Kiel, Germany.
authors.forename: Felix
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Müller
mesh_terms: D000383:Agriculture / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D044822:Biodiversity; D002681:China; D002947:Cities; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources / Q000379:methods*; D017753:Ecosystem; D004784:Environmental Monitoring / Q000379:methods*; D005523:Food Supply; D006801:Humans; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014507:Urbanization / Q000639:trends
keywords: DPSIR; Ecosystem services cascade; Factor analysis; Human-environmental systems; Indicators; Statistics