Evaluation of typical ecosystem services in Dabie Mountain area and its application in improving residents' well-being

Muyi Huang; Guozhao Zhang; Qilong Wang; Qi Yin; Jizhong Wang; Weihua Li; Shaoru Feng; Qiaojun Ke; Qin Guo

doi:10.3389/fpls.2023.1195644

Evaluation of typical ecosystem services in Dabie Mountain area and its application in improving residents' well-being

Front Plant Sci. 2023 Jun 6:14:1195644. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1195644. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Muyi Huang^{1

2}, Guozhao Zhang^{1

2}, Qilong Wang³, Qi Yin³, Jizhong Wang⁴, Weihua Li^{1

2}, Shaoru Feng^{1

2}, Qiaojun Ke^{1

2}, Qin Guo⁵

Affiliations

¹ School of Environment and Energy Engineering, Anhui Jianzhu University, Hefei, Anhui, China.
² Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory of Environmental Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, Hefei, Anhui, China.
³ College of Management, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.
⁴ Guangzhou (GRG) Metrology & Test (Hefei) CO., Ltd, Hefei, Anhui, China.
⁵ School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Anhui Jianzhu University, Hefei, Anhui, China.

Abstract

Research on ecosystem services and residents' well-being in old revolutionary base areas is an important task for China's ecological civilization construction and rural revitalization. Taking Jinzhai County, the core area of Dabie Mountains, China, as an example, based on InVEST model, the methods of spatial autocorrelation and coupling coordinated development degree, the spatiotemporal evolution, spatial heterogeneity and coupling association patterns of ecosystem services and multidimensional well-being in the study area from 2005 to 2020 were discussed. The major results are: In the past 15 years, in the core area of the Dabie Mountains, ecosystem services such as food supply, soil retention and water yield showed an upward trend, carbon sequestration and biodiversity maintenance showed a downward trend. The comprehensive index of multidimensional well-being in the core area of Dabie Mountain increased by 27.23% and the spatial difference in multidimensional well-being is gradually narrowing. By the analysis of coupling coordination, the number of units with the type of coupling disharmony between ecosystem services and multidimensional well-being in the study area decreased significantly from 56.85% in 2005 to 26.81% in 2020, respectively. The analysis of geographical detection showed that the habitat quality factor was the dominant controlling factor of coupling coordination spatial difference. By bivariate spatial autocorrelation analysis, in the past 15 years, the number of units with the "high ecology-high well-being" synergy type increased from 5.44% to 13.31%. The results can provide a reference for accurate identification, optimal regulation and synergistic improvement between ecosystem services and relative poverty in the Dabie Mountain area.

Keywords: Dabie Mountain area; coupling coordinated development degree; ecosystem services; geographical detector; multidimensional well-being.

Grants and funding

This work was supported by the Humanities and Social Science Planning Fund of the Ministry of Education, China, grant number 20YJAZH038; National Key Research and Development Program, grant number 2022YFD1700102; Anhui Provincial Key Research And Development Plan, grant number 2022l07020025; Program of Anhui Provincial Department of Education for Innovative Research Team of Environmental Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, grant number 2022AH010019; Anhui Provincial Department of Education College Excellent Top Talent Cultivation Project, grant number gxgnfx2022018; Humanities and Social Sciences Project of Anhui Jianzhu University, grant number JR202228.