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Linking ecosystem services and landscape patterns to assess urban ecosystem health: A case study in Shenzhen City, China
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Penga, Ian Liua, Yanxu Wua, Jiansheng Lvb, Huiling Hua, Xiaoxu |
| Copyright Year | 2016 |
| Abstract | Ecosystem health assessment is always one of the key topics of ecosystem management. However, few studies has focused on assessing ecosystem health of landscapes, which are geo-spatial units composed of different kinds of ecosystem mosaics. Healthy ecosystems should sustainably provide a range of ecosystem services to meet human needs, and such a concept often cannot be expressed using the traditional ecosystem health assessment. Using Shenzhen City in China as a case study area, this research aims to assess the ecosystem health of urban landscapes based on ecosystem services. Results showed a distinct deterioration of urban ecosystem health for all of the 30 units assessed in Shenzhen City during 1978–2005. Five levels were classified with respect to health using fixed thresholds. There were 12 towns appearing with the worst level and 4 towns disappearing with the best level in 2005 compared with the |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://web.pkusz.edu.cn/wujs/files/2017/10/29-Linking-ecosystem-services-and-landscape-patterns-to-assess-urban-ecosystem-health-A-case-study-in-Shenzhen-City-China.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
