Quantifying the spatial flow of soil conservation service to optimize land-use pattern under ecological protection scenarios
Land use pattern optimization is an effective approach for sustaining soil conservation service (SCS) under the influence of climate change and anthropogenic activities across the Loess Plateau of China. However, current studies establish ecological protection scenarios (EPSs) for land-use optimizat...
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| author | Yudan Wang Xianfeng Liu Jing Li Yida Wang Jizhou Bai Zixiang Zhou |
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| description | Land use pattern optimization is an effective approach for sustaining soil conservation service (SCS) under the influence of climate change and anthropogenic activities across the Loess Plateau of China. However, current studies establish ecological protection scenarios (EPSs) for land-use optimization based on the transfer matrix of EPS alone, which ignores the important role of scientific intervention by human beings on land-use patterns. To fill this knowledge gap, the Wuding River watershed was employed as the research object, and land use under three EPSs was simulated according to the transfer matrix, dry-wet zoning, slope, and soil and water loss zoning. The quantity of SCS and its spatial flow and benefit under different climate scenarios were then simulated and compared with those under natural development scenarios (NDSs). SCS was found to decrease due to the expansion of urban areas and agriculture under the NDSs and increase under the EPSs relative to the NDSs. In addition, under the EPSs, SCS restricted to dry-wet zoning exhibited no significant advantage over those without additional constraints. However, when complex constraints, such as dry-wet zoning, slope, and soil and water loss zoning, were combined, SCS was significantly improved in areas with large topographic fluctuations. Further, compared with that in 2000–2020, the benefit of SCS in future scenarios displayed an increasing trend in the direction of the mainstream. Owing to the cumulative benefit, when the spatial flow of the SCS upstream decreases with urban expansion, the benefit for the downstream area, which is provided by land-use optimization, will decrease. Overall, our findings provide a framework for land use optimization by incorporating ecosystem service flow, ultimately facilitating land management, ecological restoration, and soil erosion prevention. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-514f06845edd4196a57aea356d8a85b02022-12-22T04:31:06ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Earth Science2296-64632022-08-011010.3389/feart.2022.957520957520Quantifying the spatial flow of soil conservation service to optimize land-use pattern under ecological protection scenariosYudan Wang0Xianfeng Liu1Jing Li2Yida Wang3Jizhou Bai4Zixiang Zhou5School of Geography and Tourism, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an, ChinaSchool of Geography and Tourism, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an, ChinaSchool of Geography and Tourism, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an, ChinaSchool of Geography and Tourism, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an, ChinaSchool of Geography and Tourism, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an, ChinaCollege of Geomatics, Xi’an University of Science and Technology, Xi’an, ChinaLand use pattern optimization is an effective approach for sustaining soil conservation service (SCS) under the influence of climate change and anthropogenic activities across the Loess Plateau of China. However, current studies establish ecological protection scenarios (EPSs) for land-use optimization based on the transfer matrix of EPS alone, which ignores the important role of scientific intervention by human beings on land-use patterns. To fill this knowledge gap, the Wuding River watershed was employed as the research object, and land use under three EPSs was simulated according to the transfer matrix, dry-wet zoning, slope, and soil and water loss zoning. The quantity of SCS and its spatial flow and benefit under different climate scenarios were then simulated and compared with those under natural development scenarios (NDSs). SCS was found to decrease due to the expansion of urban areas and agriculture under the NDSs and increase under the EPSs relative to the NDSs. In addition, under the EPSs, SCS restricted to dry-wet zoning exhibited no significant advantage over those without additional constraints. However, when complex constraints, such as dry-wet zoning, slope, and soil and water loss zoning, were combined, SCS was significantly improved in areas with large topographic fluctuations. Further, compared with that in 2000–2020, the benefit of SCS in future scenarios displayed an increasing trend in the direction of the mainstream. Owing to the cumulative benefit, when the spatial flow of the SCS upstream decreases with urban expansion, the benefit for the downstream area, which is provided by land-use optimization, will decrease. Overall, our findings provide a framework for land use optimization by incorporating ecosystem service flow, ultimately facilitating land management, ecological restoration, and soil erosion prevention.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feart.2022.957520/fullsoil conservation servicespatial flowland-use optimizationSWAT modelWuding River watershed |
| spellingShingle | Yudan Wang Xianfeng Liu Jing Li Yida Wang Jizhou Bai Zixiang Zhou Quantifying the spatial flow of soil conservation service to optimize land-use pattern under ecological protection scenarios Frontiers in Earth Science soil conservation service spatial flow land-use optimization SWAT model Wuding River watershed |
| title | Quantifying the spatial flow of soil conservation service to optimize land-use pattern under ecological protection scenarios |
| title_full | Quantifying the spatial flow of soil conservation service to optimize land-use pattern under ecological protection scenarios |
| title_fullStr | Quantifying the spatial flow of soil conservation service to optimize land-use pattern under ecological protection scenarios |
| title_full_unstemmed | Quantifying the spatial flow of soil conservation service to optimize land-use pattern under ecological protection scenarios |
| title_short | Quantifying the spatial flow of soil conservation service to optimize land-use pattern under ecological protection scenarios |
| title_sort | quantifying the spatial flow of soil conservation service to optimize land use pattern under ecological protection scenarios |
| topic | soil conservation service spatial flow land-use optimization SWAT model Wuding River watershed |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feart.2022.957520/full |
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