Research Article
Land Use Zoning for Conserving Ecosystem Services under the Impact of Climate Change: A Case Study in the Middle Reaches of the Heihe River Basin
Table 1
Key ecosystem services indicators in the HRB.
| | Categories | Subcategories | Indicators and description |
| | Provisioning services | Food | Cultivated land percentage % | | Fresh water | Water area percentage % | | Fuelwood | Forestry area percentage % |
| | Regulating services | Climate regulating | Air temperature: mean annual temperature (0.1°C) | | Temperature departure | | Precipitation departure | Cumulated temperature (>10°C) Annually cumulated temperature of daily mean
Air temperature above 10°C (0.1°C) | | Sunshine hours: sunshine hours rectifying the spatial variability of solar radiation | | Sunshine hours departure | | Species diversity | Landscape diversity index (Shannon diversity index) |
| | Supporting services | Soil formation | Loam proportion % | | Slope: terrain slope derived from DEM (0.01 degrees) | | Nutrient cycling | Soil phosphorus content % | | Primary production | Net primary production gC m−2yr−1 | | Grassland area | Grassland percentage % |
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