title: [Evaluation of ecosystem service value and strategies for ecological design in land consolidation: a case of land consolidation project in Da'an City, Jilin Province, China].
abstract: Land consolidation, as one of the major driving forces for the changes of land use/cover, has significant impacts on landscape patterns, ecological functions, and ecosystem services. In this paper, a land consolidation project conducted in Da'an City, Jinlin Province, China, was selected to evaluate the ecosystem service values before and after land consolidation at three spatial scales, i. e., village, town, and county. The results indicated that the land consolidation with the goal to increase the area of cultivated land might cause the decrease of the saline and alkaline land, grassland, and wetland. In addition, land consolidation resulted in the reduction of the total ecosystem service values at varying degree at the three scales. Compared to the pre-consolidation status, the total post-consolidation ecosystem service values at the village, town and county scales were 7.96, 843.01 and 1205.86 million yuan, and reduced by 10.5%, 14.2% and 33.1%, respectively. Based on the evaluation of ecosystem service value, strategies of landscape ecological design were discussed to improve the ecological functions and to provide the guidance for the sustainable development of land consolidation.
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Shen-Chun
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Yan
authors.forename: Li
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: Ya-Nan
authors.initials: YN
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D002681:China; D002947:Cities; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources; D004463:Ecology; D017753:Ecosystem