Sensitivity and future exposure of ecosystem services to climate change on the Tibetan Plateau of China.

ABSTRACT:

Context

Climate change has imposed tremendous impacts on ecosystem services. Recent attempts to quantify such impacts mainly focused on a basin or larger scale, or used limited time periods that largely ignore observations of long-term trends at a fine resolution, thereby affecting the recognition of climate change's effect on ecosystem services.

Objectives

This study conducts a detailed and spatially explicit recognition of climate change's effect on ecosystem services and provides an intuitive map for decision-making and climate change adaptation planning.

Methods

We used long-term time series of ecosystem service assessments and various future climate scenarios to quantify the sensitivity and future exposure of ecosystem services to climate change on the Tibetan Pl

SUBMITTER: Hua T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8382670 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature