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cje ›› 2012, Vol. 31 ›› Issue (01): 215-221.

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Methods for forest eco-service value evaluation: A review. 

ZHU Min1, LI Li2**, WU Gong-sheng2, ZHOU Yue2, LÜ Xi-xi2, LI Di-qiang3, XUE Ya-dong3   

  1. 1Faculty of Environmental Science and Engineering, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, 650093, China;2 Wildlife Management and Ecosystem Health Center, Yunnan University of Finance and Economics, Kunming 650221, China;3Research Institute of Forest Ecology, Environment and Protection, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing 100091, China
  • Online:2012-01-08 Published:2012-01-08

Abstract: The significance of forest ecological benefits is increasingly emerging,and the scientists and governments in the world are paying attentions to the evaluation of forest eco-service value, which promotes the growing up of related methods. This paper summarized the research progress on the methodologies of evaluating forest eco-service value, and classified the related commonly used methods into three types,i.e., market-based methods, energy-accounting methods, and software model methods. The first two methods still have some limitations. They are deficient in checking the rationality of substitution method, ignore the multi-criteria in forest ecosystem management, lack of considering surrounding affecting factors, doubly count a variety of ecological values, and lose sight of the scarcity in eco-service value. To overcome these limitations, this paper introduced the features and superiorities of software GUMB, CITYgreen, and Invest. Based on the review, the research directions for China forest eco-service value evaluation in the future were put forward: 1) further explore the relationships between forest ecosystem structure and function, 2) improve the applicability of related foreign evaluation methods, and 3) undertake more studies on the feedback from eco-compensation.

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