Land Use and Land Cover Dynamics and Assessing the Ecosystem Service Values in the Trans-Boundary Gandaki River Basin, Central Himalayas

doi:10.3390/su10093052

	Land Use and Land Cover Dynamics and Assessing the Ecosystem Service Values in the Trans-Boundary Gandaki River Basin, Central Himalayas
	Rai, Raju 1,2; Zhang, Yili 1,2,3,4; Paudel, Basanta 1,3; Acharya, Bipin Kumar 5; Basnet, Laxmi 6
刊名	SUSTAINABILITY
	2018-09-01
卷号	10 期号:9 页码:22
关键词	land use and land cover change ecosystem service values Gandaki River Basin Himalayas
ISSN号	2071-1050
DOI	10.3390/su10093052
通讯作者	Zhang, Yili(zhangyl@igsnrr.ac.cn)
英文摘要	Land use and land cover is a fundamental variable that affects many parts of social and physical environmental aspects. Land use and land cover changes (LUCC) has been known as one of the key drivers of affecting in ecosystem services. The trans-boundary Gandaki River Basin (GRB) is the part of Central Himalayas, a tributary of Ganges mega-river basin plays a crucial role on LUCC and ecosystem services. Due to the large topographic variances, the basin has existed various land cover types including cropland, forest cover, built-up area, river/lake, wetland, snow/glacier, grassland, barren land and bush/shrub. This study used Landsat 5-TM (1990), Landsat 8-OLI (2015) satellite image and existing national land cover database of Nepal of the year 1990 to analyze LUCC and impact on ecosystem service values between 1990 and 2015. Supervised classification with maximum likelihood algorithm was applied to obtain the various land cover types. To estimate the ecosystem services values, this study used coefficients values of ecosystem services delivered by each land cover class. The combined use of GIS and remote sensing analysis has revealed that grassland and snow cover decreased from 10.62% to 7.62% and 9.55% to 7.27%, respectively compared to other land cover types during the 25 years study period. Conversely, cropland, forest and built-up area have increased from 31.78% to 32.67%, 32.47-33.22% and 0.19-0.59%, respectively in the same period. The total ecosystem service values (ESV) was increased from 50.16 x 10(8) USD y(-1) to 51.84 x 10(8) USD y(-1) during the 25 years in the GRB. In terms of ESV of each of land cover types, the ESV of cropland, forest, water bodies, barren land were increased, whereas, the ESV of snow/glacier and grassland were decreased. The total ESV of grassland and snow/glacier cover were decreased from 3.12 x 10(8) USD y(-1) to 1.93 x 10(8) USD y(-1) and 0.26 x 10(8) USD y(-1) to 0.19 x 10(8) USD y(-1), respectively between 1990 and 2015. The findings of the study could be a scientific reference for the watershed management and policy formulation to the trans-boundary watershed.
资助项目	Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences[XDA20040201] ; Chinese Academy of Sciences-The World Academy of Sciences (CAS-TWAS) ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[41761144081] ; International Partnership Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences[131C11KYSB20160061]
WOS关键词	TIBETAN PLATEAU ; POKHARA VALLEY ; NEPAL ; CHINA ; CLASSIFICATION ; ACCURACY ; CITY ; DEFORESTATION ; WATERSHEDS ; VALUATION
WOS研究方向	Science & Technology - Other Topics ; Environmental Sciences & Ecology
语种	英语
出版者	MDPI
WOS记录号	WOS:000446770200095
资助机构	Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences ; Chinese Academy of Sciences-The World Academy of Sciences (CAS-TWAS) ; National Natural Science Foundation of China ; International Partnership Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.igsnrr.ac.cn/handle/311030/52825]
专题	中国科学院地理科学与资源研究所
通讯作者	Zhang, Yili
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Geog Sci & Nat Resources Res, Key Lab Land Surface Pattern & Simulat, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China 2.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China 3.CAS Ctr Excellence Tibetan Plateau Earth Sci, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China 4.Tribhuvan Univ, Chinese Acad Sci, Kathmandu Ctr Res & Educ, Kathmandu 44613, Nepal 5.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Remote Sensing & Digital Earth, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China 6.Inst Himalayan Res & Integrated Dev Private Ltd, Kathmandu 44600, Nepal
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Rai, Raju,Zhang, Yili,Paudel, Basanta,et al. Land Use and Land Cover Dynamics and Assessing the Ecosystem Service Values in the Trans-Boundary Gandaki River Basin, Central Himalayas[J]. SUSTAINABILITY,2018,10(9):22.
APA	Rai, Raju,Zhang, Yili,Paudel, Basanta,Acharya, Bipin Kumar,&Basnet, Laxmi.(2018).Land Use and Land Cover Dynamics and Assessing the Ecosystem Service Values in the Trans-Boundary Gandaki River Basin, Central Himalayas.SUSTAINABILITY,10(9),22.
MLA	Rai, Raju,et al."Land Use and Land Cover Dynamics and Assessing the Ecosystem Service Values in the Trans-Boundary Gandaki River Basin, Central Himalayas".SUSTAINABILITY 10.9(2018):22.