Improvements in ecosystem services from investments in natural capital

Author:

Ouyang Zhiyun1,Zheng Hua1,Xiao Yi1,Polasky Stephen2,Liu Jianguo3,Xu Weihua1,Wang Qiao4,Zhang Lu1,Xiao Yang1,Rao Enming1,Jiang Ling1,Lu Fei1,Wang Xiaoke1,Yang Guangbin5,Gong Shihan1,Wu Bingfang6,Zeng Yuan6,Yang Wu7,Daily Gretchen C.8

Affiliation:

1. State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China.

2. Department of Applied Economics and Natural Capital Project, Institute on the Environment, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108, USA.

3. Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48823-5243, USA.

4. Satellite Environment Center, Ministry of Environmental Protection, Beijing 100094, China.

5. School of Geographic and Environmental Sciences, Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang 550001, China.

6. Key Laboratory of Digital Earth Sciences, Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.

7. College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China.

8. Department of Biology, Natural Capital Project, and Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.

Abstract

China's national ecosystem assessment China recently completed its first National Ecosystem Assessment covering the period 2000–2010. Ouyang et al. present the main findings of the assessment. Investment in the restoration and preservation of natural capital has resulted in improvements at the national level in most of the major ecosystem services measured. In particular, food production, carbon sequestration, and soil retention showed strong gains; on the other hand, habitat provision for biodiversity showed a gradual decline. Regional differences remain nonetheless, and there are serious environmental challenges still to be met in areas such as air quality and the wider global footprint of raw material imports. Science , this issue p. 1455

Funder

Ministry of Finance of China

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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