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Impacts of land use change on ecosystem service value in Lijiang River Basin, China

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It is of great significance for the coordinated development of the environment and the economy to study the impact of the human driving factors of land use change (LUC) on ecosystem service value (ESV). In this study, we combined the biomass and remote sensing data of the Lijiang River Basin (LRB), which is a typical karst basin with a fragile ecological environment, to establish an ESV model to calculate the ESV. We also introduced the Lorenz curve and Gini coefficient to further analyze the impacts of the human driving factors of LUC on ESV. The results show that (1) the ESV in the LRB from 1995 to 2015 decreased from 8640.03 million yuan to 8595.38 million yuan, with a total decrease of 44.65 million yuan, indicating that the overall ESV in the region has a decreasing trend; (2) the obvious changes in land use caused a significant loss in ESV and changes in the structure of ecosystem services; and (3) the human driving factors of the total population, GDP, and urbanization rate are inversely related to the ESV in the LRB.

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This research was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under grant number 41801071, the Guangxi Natural Science Foundation under grant number 2018GXNSFBA281015, and the Middle-aged and Young Teachers’ Basic Ability Promotion Project of Guangxi (contract numbers 2020KY06031 and 2020KY58008).

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Ning Li was the primary contributor of this manuscript. She was mainly responsible for conceptualizing the study and writing the initial draft of this manuscript. Jinye Wang contributed to the reorganization of the framework and multiple reviews of the manuscript. Haoyu Wang performed the data processing and analysis. Bolin Fu and Jianjun Chen contributed to the editing and review of the manuscript. Wen He created and improved the illustrations.

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Li, N., Wang, J., Wang, H. et al. Impacts of land use change on ecosystem service value in Lijiang River Basin, China. Environ Sci Pollut Res 28, 46100–46115 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-020-12190-0

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