Exploring Connections among Ecosystem Services Supply, Demand and Human Well-Being in a Mountain-Basin System, China.

ABSTRACT: Stakeholder perception and supply-demand relations are the main challenges and future directions for research on ecosystem services (ES). Based on spatial data and statistical data, we mapped eight key ES supply between 2005-2015 in the Huailai mountain-basin area. Using data from 507 survey questionnaires, we identified the ES demand and the public perceptions of the changes in ES. In addition, we also reveal the characteristics of the spatial distribution of ES demand, analyze the spatial supply-demand matching of ES, and explore the relationships between ES supply-demand and human well-being. From 2005 to 2015, a general upward trend was observed in the supply of four types of product provisioning services, which is different from the trend perceived by the stakeholders. An increasing t

SUBMITTER: Wang B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7432866 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature