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Valuation of barley agro-ecosystem services in Lhasa-river valley region——A case study of Dazi County

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  • 1. Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, Beijing 100101,China;
    2. Institute of Animal Sciences, CAAS, Beijing 100094,China.

Received date: 2004-03-09

  Revised date: 2004-04-15

  Online published: 2004-10-25

Abstract

Agro-ecosystem is very important to our human beings, but the fact is we know veryless about its ecosystem services.So this study selects barley agro-ecosystem of Dazi County in Lhasa-river valley and uses different methods (such as market value,substitution engineering,shadow price)to calculate its value.The result shows that the total value of barley agro-ecosystem services is 37 249.77×104 yuan;the order of various ecosystem services values is respectively production value16 973.38×104 yuan(45.57%),release of O2 10 649.81×104 yuan(28.59%),fixation of CO2 7 875.03×104 yuan(21.14%),nutrient circle maintained 1 478.23×104 yuan(3.97%),and water holding 273.32×104 yuan(0.73%).So agro-ecosystem provides great ecological services to its economic productivity,but the production service is its most important service.

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ZHAO Hai-zhen, LI Wen-hua, MA Ai-jin, HE Yong-tao . Valuation of barley agro-ecosystem services in Lhasa-river valley region——A case study of Dazi County[J]. JOURNAL OF NATURAL RESOURCES, 2004 , 19(5) : 632 -636 . DOI: 10.11849/zrzyxb.2004.05.013

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