Freshwater ecosystems provide a host of services to humanity. These services are now rapidly being lost, not least because of the inability of making the impacts measurable. To overcome this obstacle, assessment frameworks for freshwater ecosystem services are needed. A simple water equivalent framework to assess the ecological services provided by freshwater ecosystems was developed in this study. It translated the occupation of freshwater ecosystem services into biologically freshwater volumes and then compares this consumption to the freshwater throughput, that is, the ecological capacity available in this region. In this way, we use the example of Yangzhou Prefecture, to account the main categories of human occupation of water ecosystem services. The result showed that there is a huge gap between the consumption and the supply of freshwater ecosystem services. This must encourage local government to make land-use and water management decisions both economically rational and environmentally sound.
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机译:Response to 'letter to the editor: 'Design of an integrated climatic assessment indicator (ICAI) for wheat production: A case study in Jiangsu Province, China' by Xiangying Xu, ping Gao, Xinkai Zhu, Wenshan Guo, Jinfeng Ding, Chunyan Li, Min Zhu, Xuanwei Wu'
机译:信息不对称下,“中药材全产业链服务商”模式对中药材价格的影响研究 =Pricing and Information Asymmetry in the Chinese Herbal Medicine Markets - A Study of the Mode of "Chinese Herbal Medicine Industry Chain Service Provider"