Abstract
Faced with huge environmental problems of ecosystem degradation, “Ecological Redline Policy (ERP)” in China is a new key national-level policy to manage different land use functions in accordance with development and environmental limits. As the water–land complex ecosystem with the largest freshwater lake, wetland natural reserves and ecological importance in China, Poyang Lake Region (PLR) is selected to quantify and map multiple ecosystem services, investigate the ecological function zoning as part of research on ecological zoning control and major ecological source areas to illustrate and address the implementation of this strategy based on the importance and vulnerability analysis of ecosystem services. According to ecological function zoning results, extremely important, highly important, medium important and important zones respectively account for 26.1%, 28.1%, 17.4% and 28.4% of the total area. With an area of 5422.2 km2, the extremely important zone is 1010.6 km2 larger than the ERP. Moreover, 81.6% of the ERP is located in the extremely important zone. By discussing the implications and applications of ecological management, this study contributes to the ecological protection of Poyang Lake and provides a foundation for research on ecological function zoning at the regional scale.
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This study was supported by the Key Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant KFZD-SW-318), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant 42071146) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant 41701097).
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Conceptualization: Chen Xu, Guishan Yang and Rongrong Wan; Methodology: Chen Xu and Peng Wang; Formal analysis and investigation: Chen Xu; Writing—original draft preparation: Chen Xu; Writing—review and editing: Chen Xu, Guishan Yang, Rongrong Wan and Weixin Ou; Funding acquisition, Resources and Supervision: Guishan Yang and Rongrong Wan.
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Xu, C., Yang, G., Wan, R. et al. Toward ecological function zoning and comparison to the Ecological Redline Policy: a case study in the Poyang Lake Region, China. Environ Sci Pollut Res 28, 40178–40191 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-020-12225-6
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