Optimal vegetation coverage from the perspective of ecosystem services in the Qilian Mountains

Autor: Junling Ruan, Zongxing Li, Xiaoping Zhang, Xue Jian, Dongpeng Wang
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Environmental Research Communications, Vol 6, Iss 11, p 115023 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2515-7620
DOI: 10.1088/2515-7620/ad9144
Popis: The Qilian Mountains (QLMs) serve as a vital ecological security barrier in the northwest China, determining the optimal fractional vegetation cover (FVC) of different land-use types is crucial for ecological restoration and protection. Based on the normalized vegetation index, meteorological data, soil data and land-use data, the InVEST model, bivariate spatial autocorrelation and elastic analysis, we calculated the water conservation, soil conservation and carbon storage, analyzed the spatio-temporal distribution characteristics of FVC and ecosystem services (ES) and the correlation between them. This study aims to evaluate the optimal FVC of the different land-use types and vegetation restoration’s effect on it in the QLMs. The results showed that the FVC and ES showed an increasing trend from 2000 to 2020, with a spatial distribution pattern of high values in the southeast and low values in the northwest. There was a significant and positive correlation between FVC and ecosystem service functions (p
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