State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China.
Department of Applied Economics and Natural Capital Project, Institute on the Environment, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108, USA.
Science. 2016 Jun 17;352(6292):1455-9. doi: 10.1126/science.aaf2295. Epub 2016 Jun 16.
In response to ecosystem degradation from rapid economic development, China began investing heavily in protecting and restoring natural capital starting in 2000. We report on China's first national ecosystem assessment (2000-2010), designed to quantify and help manage change in ecosystem services, including food production, carbon sequestration, soil retention, sandstorm prevention, water retention, flood mitigation, and provision of habitat for biodiversity. Overall, ecosystem services improved from 2000 to 2010, apart from habitat provision. China's national conservation policies contributed significantly to the increases in those ecosystem services.
针对经济快速发展导致的生态系统退化问题，中国从 2000 年开始大力投资于保护和恢复自然资本。我们报告了中国的首次国家生态系统评估（2000-2010 年），旨在量化和帮助管理生态系统服务的变化，包括粮食生产、碳固存、土壤保持、沙尘暴防治、蓄水、洪水缓解以及为生物多样性提供栖息地。总体而言，除了提供栖息地外，2000 年至 2010 年期间生态系统服务有所改善。中国的国家保护政策对这些生态系统服务的增加做出了重大贡献。
