Identifying the Areas Benefitting from the Prevention of Wind Erosion by the Key Ecological Function Area for the Protection of Desertification in Hunshandake, China
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Study Area
2.2. Methods
2.2.1. Hypotheses Used to Simulate the Flow of Prevented Wind Erosion
2.2.2. Simulation of the Flow Paths of the Prevented Wind Erosion
2.2.3. Identifying the Benefit Areas of the Prevented Wind Erosion
3. Results
3.1. Flow Paths of the Prevented Wind Erosion
3.2. Benefit Areas of the Prevented Wind Erosion
3.3. Benefitting Land Cover Type, Population and GDP Associated with the Prevented Wind Erosion
4. Discussion
4.1. Spatial Relationship between Service Providing Areas (SPAs) and Service Benefitting Areas (SBAs)
4.2. Implications for Eco-Compensation
4.3. Limitations
5. Conclusions
Acknowledgments
Author Contributions
Conflicts of Interest
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Frequency of Trajectory | Benefitting Land Cover (103 km2) | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Forest | Grassland | Cropland | Settlement | Wetland | In Sum | |
<1% | 591.91 | 187.10 | 480.69 | 55.26 | 49.08 | 1364.04 |
1~5% | 359.04 | 240.87 | 462.80 | 74.18 | 74.40 | 1211.29 |
5~10% | 250.39 | 120.90 | 299.38 | 38.19 | 60.51 | 769.37 |
≥10% | 76.20 | 108.76 | 111.74 | 14.43 | 15.06 | 326.18 |
In sum | 1277.54 | 657.64 | 1354.61 | 182.05 | 199.04 | 3670.88 |
Frequency of Trajectory | Benefitting Area (106 km2) | Ratio to the Total Area of China (%) | Benefitting Population (106 people) | Ratio to the Total Population of China (%) | Benefitting GDP (1012 RMB) | Ratio to the Total GDP of China (%) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
<1% | 1.42 | 14.71 | 453.19 | 33.80 | 11.02 | 26.68 |
1~5% | 1.23 | 12.76 | 355.77 | 26.53 | 9.80 | 23.72 |
5~10% | 0.78 | 8.14 | 141.11 | 10.52 | 5.38 | 13.02 |
≥10% | 0.35 | 3.60 | 49.09 | 3.66 | 1.52 | 3.69 |
In sum | 3.78 | 39.21 | 999.17 | 74.51 | 27.72 | 67.11 |
China | 9.63 | 100 | 1340.91 | 100 | 41.30 | 100 |
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Xiao, Y.; Xie, G.; Zhen, L.; Lu, C.; Xu, J. Identifying the Areas Benefitting from the Prevention of Wind Erosion by the Key Ecological Function Area for the Protection of Desertification in Hunshandake, China. Sustainability 2017, 9, 1820. https://doi.org/10.3390/su9101820
Xiao Y, Xie G, Zhen L, Lu C, Xu J. Identifying the Areas Benefitting from the Prevention of Wind Erosion by the Key Ecological Function Area for the Protection of Desertification in Hunshandake, China. Sustainability. 2017; 9(10):1820. https://doi.org/10.3390/su9101820
Chicago/Turabian StyleXiao, Yu, Gaodi Xie, Lin Zhen, Chunxia Lu, and Jie Xu. 2017. "Identifying the Areas Benefitting from the Prevention of Wind Erosion by the Key Ecological Function Area for the Protection of Desertification in Hunshandake, China" Sustainability 9, no. 10: 1820. https://doi.org/10.3390/su9101820