Animal Husbandry and Feed Science ›› 2019, Vol. 40 ›› Issue (8): 58-63.doi: 10.12160/j.issn.1672-5190.2019.08.013

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Influence of Landscape Spatial Heterogeneity on Ecosystem Services

SHI Chao-yi1, MENG De-hui1, ZHU Yuan-jun2, YANG Xiao-hui2   

  1. 1.College of Ecology and Environment,Inner Mongolia University,Hohhot 010021,China;
    2.Institution of Desertification Studies,Chinese Academy of Forestry,Beijing 100091,China
  • Received:2019-06-20 Online:2019-08-30 Published:2019-12-17

Abstract: Landscape spatial heterogeneity is a concept of landscape ecology that has a huge impact on ecosystem services, and the ecosystem services will change as landscape patterns change. Landscape spatial heterogeneity can be divided into landscape composition heterogeneity and landscape configuration heterogeneity, and the impact mechanism and content of these two aspects on ecosystem services are different. At present, many scholars are studying the ′landscape pattern-ecosystem service correspondence, or ecosystem process-ecosystem service correspondence′. However, studies focusing on the combination of landscape pattern, ecosystem process and ecosystem services and on changes and interrelation of them are still limited. The current researches on interpreting the approach by which landscape heterogeneity affects the ecosystem services are not deep enough. By summarizing the relevant literature at home and abroad, this paper briefly describes how landscape spatial heterogeneity influences ecosystem services directly and indirectly, in hoping to provide a scientific basis for ecosystem services improvement, sustainable development realization and ecological protection policies formulation.

Key words: landscape, landscape configuration, ecosystem services, spatial heterogeneity, scale

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