Reconciling ecosystem service supply-demand mismatches through ecological compensation in the Tibetan plateau.

ABSTRACT: Accurately identifying ecological compensation (EC) regions and establishing clear compensation criteria are essential for promoting carbon sequestration, mitigating ecological degradation, and supporting equitable resource allocation. In this study, ecological modeling combined with hotspot analysis was applied to quantify the spatial mismatch between ecosystem service (ES) supply and demand on the Tibetan Plateau (TP) in 2020. We introduced the concept of comparative ecological radiation force (CERF) to characterize the spatial flow of ESs and to estimate the total compensation required to balance these flows. Our results highlight that the value of carbon sequestration, represented by net primary production (NPP), reached 1.21 × 10⁶ CNY, alongside other key services such as soil conserv

SUBMITTER: Yao W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12363013 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature