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Ecosystem Service Evaluation and Influencing Factors Based on Production-Living-Ecological Spaces: A Case Study of the Lower Yellow River
Jiaxiu Li 1,2,3
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Department of Surveying and Planning, Shangqiu Normal University, Shangqiu, Henan Province, 476000,China
 
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Henan Engineering Technology Research Center of Ecological Protection and Management of the Old Course of Yellow River, Shangqiu Normal University, Shangqiu, Henan Province, 476000,China
 
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Henan Environmental and Health Engineering Research Center, Shangqiu Normal University, Shangqiu, Henan Province, 476000,China
 
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School of Management, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Minden, Penang 11800, Malaysia
 
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State Key Laboratory of Desert and Oasis Ecology, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, CAS, Urumqi 830011, China
 
 
Submission date: 2024-03-18
 
 
Final revision date: 2024-09-08
 
 
Acceptance date: 2024-10-13
 
 
Online publication date: 2024-12-17
 
 
Publication date: 2025-11-14
 
 
Corresponding author
Yaning Chen   

State Key Laboratory of Desert and Oasis Ecology, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, CAS, Urumqi 830011, China
 
 
Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 2025;34(6):7993-8006
 
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Under the background of the major national strategy of ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin, the study on the ecosystem service value (ESV) changes caused by production-living-ecological spaces transformation has important scientific significance and practical value. This paper selects five phases of land use data from 2000, 2005, 2010, 2015, and 2020 to construct a production-living-ecological spaces classification system. By using a land transfer matrix, the ESV evaluation method, and a geographic detector model, the spatial and temporal change characteristics and influencing factors of land use and ESV were studied in the lower Yellow River. The results show that: (1) From 2000 to 2020, the production of ecological land and ecological production land decreased by 4.30% and 22.84%, respectively, while the living production land and ecological land increased by 32.57% and 11.48%, respectively, in the lower Yellow River. (2) The ESV increased by CNY 4.67 billion, with a change rate of 2.15%, mainly due to the increase in ecological land. The spatial distribution of ESV presents a “northeast high, southwest low” trend. The largest change in individual ecosystem service function is hydrological regulation, with an increase of CNY 6.15 billion and a change rate of 17.99%. (3) The total population and GDP reflecting the socio-economic development conditions have a greater impact on the ESV, while the slope, slope direction, precipitation, temperature, and elevation reflecting the natural conditions have a smaller impact on the ESV. The superposition effect of any two driving factors is greater than a single driving factor. Therefore, more attention should be paid to preventing the multiple factors’ effects on the deterioration of the ecosystem environment. The results of this study can provide a theoretical basis for government departments to optimize the spatial pattern and achieve sustainable development of the ecological economy.
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The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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