Abstract: As ecosystem management is a tradeoff between ecosystem processes and socioeconomic goals, and ecosystem services are the link of ecosystems and human wellbeing, it is necessary to manage ecosystems from the perspective of their services. Recently, the InVSET model has become an important tool for evaluating ecosystem services and a strong technical support to ecosystem management. This paper makes an integrated review of the applications of the InVSET model to ecosystem management in terms of quantitative assessment of ecosystem services, tradeoffs and decisionmaking process. Overall, the InVEST model is highly scientific, logically clear, and applicable. Because of the shortcomings and deficiencies of the InVEST model, the simulation is not very accurate and the mechanism of tradeoffs is not very clear. Moreover, it fails to take cultural services into consideration in the decisionmaking process. Improvements should be made to the InVEST model to provide a scientific basis for making decisions in regional ecosystem management and to realize the sustainable development of socialecological systems.

Key words: Larix olgensis plantation, diameter distribution, simultaneous equations model., thinning effect, parameter prediction model