Analyzing the spatial patterns and drivers of ecosystem services in rapidly urbanizing Taihu Lake Basin of China.pdfVIP

Front．EarthSci．2015，9(3)：531545 DOI10．1007／sl1707．014．0484—1 Analyzingthespatialpa ernsanddriversofecosystem se~rrvvli。cceessi。nnrappiiddllyyuurrbbaannizziinngTaihulLLaakke(BBaassinooffCChhinnaa JunyongAI，XiangSUN(函)’-，LanFENG ，YangfanLI。，XiaodongZHU(N~)， 1StateKeyLaboratoryofPollutionCon~olandResourcesReuse，SchooloftheEnvironment ， NanjingUniversity,Nanjing210046，China 2MarineScienceResearchInstitute，NanjingUniversity,Nanjing210093，China 3KeyLaboratory ofCoastalandWetlandEcosystems(MinistryofEducation)，CollegeoftheEnvironmentEcology,XiamenUniversity, Xiamen361102，China ◎HigherEducationPressandSpringer-VerlagBerlinHeidelberg2015 Abstract Quantifyingandmappingthedistribution Keywords Taihu Lka eBasin，ecosystem service，rapid pattemsof ecosystem services can help to ascertain urbanization，spatialpaRem，drivers whichservicesshouldbeprotectedandwhereinvestments shouldbedirectedtoimprovesynergiesandreducetrade． offs．Moreove~theindicatorsofurbanizationthataffect 1 Introduction theprovisionofecosystem servicesmustbeidentifiedto determinewhichapproachtoadoptinofmr ulatingpolicies The United Nations predicts thatthe world’surban relatedtotheseservices．ThisPaperpresentsacasestudy thatmapsthedistributionofmultipleecosystem services populationwillreach 5billionby2030 fUN，20101． and analyzesthe ways in which they interact．The Nearlyhalfofthisglobalurbanexpansionisexpectedto relationship between the supply ofecosystem services occurinAsia，particularlyinChinaandIndia．accounting and thesocio—economicdevelopmentintheTaihu Lake for55％oftheregion’stotalpopulation(Setoeta1．．2012)． Basinofeastern Chinaisalsorevealed．Resultsshow a Anystrategyofsu