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Ecosystem Service Comparison before and after Marshland Conversion to Paddy Field in the Sanjiang Plain, Northeast China

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Wetland ecosystems provide important services to human societies. However, with the rapid growth of population and the national demand for food, the natural marshlands in Sanjiang Plain have been reclaimed extensively since 1950s. Faced to these pressures, marshland services had usually been paid less attention. This study evaluated the dominant ecosystem services including carbon budget, soil water conservation, biodiversity maintenance and grain production services across year by comparable price. The results indicated that carbon budget value was the highest among the ecosystem services of marshlands before and after conversion, which was 1.94 × 109 Yuan and 1.15 × 109 Yuan, respectively. Soil water conservation value of marshlands before and after conversion was 0.13 × 109 Yuan and 0.02 × 109 Yuan, respectively. Biodiversity maintenance value of marshlands before conversion was 1.05 × 109 Yuan and grain production value of marshlands after conversion was 1.38 × 109 Yuan. Soil water conservation value and biodiversity maintenance value of marshlands before conversion was 85.5% of grain production value of marshlands conversion to paddy fields. Overall, conversion of marshlands resulted in 0.57 × 109 Yuan of net services loss. Our research provided a reference for assessing the potential loss of ecosystem services when wetland ecosystems were disturbed.

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This study was supported by the Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, CAS (IGA-135-05), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 41471081, 41171092) and State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment (2014SKL007). We would like to thank Professor Beth Middleton (The United States Geological Survey, USA) for her work on original manuscript revision.

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  1. Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Environment, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, CAS, Changchun, 130102, China

    Xiaohui Liu, Ming Jiang & Zhongsheng Zhang

  2. State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography & Limnology, CAS, Nanjing, 210008, China

    Xiaohui Liu

  3. China National Environmental Monitoring Center, Beijing, 100012, China

    Guihua Dong

  4. Changchun Huaxiang Faurecia Automotive Plastics Components Co., Ltd., Changchun, 130015, China

    Xigang Wang

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Liu, X., Jiang, M., Dong, G. et al. Ecosystem Service Comparison before and after Marshland Conversion to Paddy Field in the Sanjiang Plain, Northeast China. Wetlands 37, 593–600 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13157-017-0894-4

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