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cje ›› 2011, Vol. 30 ›› Issue (03): 569-575.

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Estimation of indirect values of forest ecosystem services in a typical forest area of Qilian Mountains.

TANG Cui-wen1,2**, TAO Ling1,2, YANG Guo-jing3, SU Yan-ke1, |XIAO Du-ning4   

  1. 1School of Environmental and Municipal Engineering, Lanzhou Jiaotong University, Lanzhou 730070, China|2State Key Laboratory of Frozen Soil Engineering, Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China; |3Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China|4Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, China
  • Online:2011-03-08 Published:2011-03-08

Abstract: By using conventional and surrogate market approaches, estimation was made on the indirect monetary values of forest ecosystem services, including organic matter production, water and soil conservation, CO2 fixation, and air purification, in Haxi forest area at the east part of northern slope Qilian Mountains. In the meantime, the ecosystem services values of three vegetation types were compared. The total value of the five ecosystem services in the forest area was 5.2061×108 yuan, among which, woodland occupied 1.951034×108 yuan, shrub land occupied 2.520001×108 yuan, and grassland occupied 0.735065×108 yuan. Calculated by forest land area, the monetary value of indirect ecological services provided by the forest ecosystem in Qilian Mountains was as 3-5 times as that of the Gross National Product in Tianzhu County. Among the three vegetation types, shrub land had the largest monetary values of water and soil conservation services.

Key words: Heavy metals, Combined pollution, Quadratic regression revolution design, Combined effects