Strengthening protected areas for biodiversity and ecosystem services in China

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	Strengthening protected areas for biodiversity and ecosystem services in China
	Polasky, Stephen; Xu, Weihua; Xiao, Yi; Zhang, Jingjing; Yang, Wu; Zhang, Lu; Hull, Vanessa; Wang, Zhi; Zheng, Hua; Liu, Jianguo
刊名	PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
	2017-02-14
卷号	114 期号:7 页码:1601-1606
关键词	Conservation Strategy Threatened Species Representation Ecosystem Services Protected Areas Sustainable Development
英文摘要	Recent expansion of the scale of human activities poses severe threats to Earth's life-support systems. Increasingly, protected areas (PAs) are expected to serve dual goals: protect biodiversity and secure ecosystem services. We report a nationwide assessment for China, quantifying the provision of threatened species habitat and four key regulating services-water retention, soil retention, sandstorm prevention, and carbon sequestration-in nature reserves ( the primary category of PAs in China). We find that China's nature reserves serve moderately well for mammals and birds, but not for other major taxa, nor for these key regulating ecosystem services. China's nature reserves encompass 15.1% of the country's land surface. They capture 17.9% and 16.4% of the entire habitat area for threatened mammals and birds, but only 13.1% for plants, 10.0% for amphibians, and 8.5% for reptiles. Nature reserves encompass only 10.2-12.5% of the source areas for the four key regulating services. They are concentrated in western China, whereas much threatened species' habitat and regulating service source areas occur in eastern provinces. Our analysis illuminates a strategy for greatly strengthening PAs, through creating the first comprehensive national park system of China. This would encompass both nature reserves, in which human activities are highly restricted, and a new category of PAs for ecosystem services, in which human activities not impacting key services are permitted. This could close the gap in a politically feasible way. We also propose a new category of PAs globally, for sustaining the provision of ecosystems services and achieving sustainable development goals.
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.rcees.ac.cn/handle/311016/39115]
专题	生态环境研究中心_城市与区域生态国家重点实验室
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Polasky, Stephen,Xu, Weihua,Xiao, Yi,et al. Strengthening protected areas for biodiversity and ecosystem services in China[J]. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,2017,114(7):1601-1606.
APA	Polasky, Stephen.,Xu, Weihua.,Xiao, Yi.,Zhang, Jingjing.,Yang, Wu.,...&Ouyang, Zhiyun.(2017).Strengthening protected areas for biodiversity and ecosystem services in China.PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,114(7),1601-1606.
MLA	Polasky, Stephen,et al."Strengthening protected areas for biodiversity and ecosystem services in China".PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 114.7(2017):1601-1606.