A model to assess fundamental and realized carrying capacities of island ecosystem: A case study in the southern Miaodao Archipelago of China

doi:10.1007/s13131-016-0808-y

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	A model to assess fundamental and realized carrying capacities of island ecosystem: A case study in the southern Miaodao Archipelago of China
	Shi Honghua 1; Shen Chengcheng 1,2; Zheng Wei 1; Li Fen 1,3; Wang Xiaoli 4; Chi Yuan 1; Guo Zhen 1; Qiao Mingyang 1,3; Gao Liyuan 1; Ding Dewen 1
刊名	ACTA OCEANOLOGICA SINICA
	2016-02
卷号	35 期号:2 页码:56-67
关键词	carrying capacity regional sustainability island ecosystem Miaodao Archipelago Bohai Sea
ISSN号	0253-505X
DOI	10.1007/s13131-016-0808-y
英文摘要	Research on carrying capacity, aiming at maintaining the limited ability of the Earth's life supporting system to sustain human development, requires a comprehensive and ecosystem-based approach to monitor and assess the localized sustainability of coupled social and ecological systems. A definition termed the ecosystem-based carrying capacity of island (EBCCI) was developed in this paper of which the indices of fundamental and realized carrying capacities of island (FCCI and RCCI) were highlighted to emphasize the inter-dependencies between social systems and ecological systems. In order to avoid the difficulties and uncertainties of direct assessment, the related assessment model was established on the basis of synthetic evaluation of inherent and external factors affecting the EBCCI. The southern Miaodao Archipelago (SMA) located in the intersection of the Bohai Sea and the Yellow Sea, China, was taken as a typical example to acquire integrated recognition of the island ecosystem and its carrying capacity so as to discuss its sustainable development. The index scores of FCCI and RCCI in the SMA were 0.818 5 and 0.712 9 out of 1.0, respectively, with acceptable uncertainties. The results showed a relatively well capacity to sustain progress and relatively well realization of the carrying capacity of island ecosystem, owing to a well capacity of ecologically regulating, general performance of both ecologically supporting and resource provisioning, and a relatively high level of social supporting system. The study implied that it was critical to optimize the inter-dependencies and to sustain the relative balance between social systems and ecological systems so as to improve the RCCI and further facilitate the sustainability of SMA. The approach proposed in this paper provides a powerful tool which is well applicative to the regional level of an oceanic island or archipelago to study the sustainable development and can be further popularized to the coastal zone.
资助项目	National Natural Science Foundation of China[41206111]
WOS研究方向	Oceanography
语种	英语
出版者	SPRINGER
WOS记录号	WOS:000370614700007
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.fio.com.cn/handle/2SI8HI0U/3504]
专题	业务部门_海洋生态研究中心
作者单位	1.State Ocean Adm, Inst Oceanog 1, Qingdao 266061, Peoples R China; 2.Ocean Univ China, Coll Environm Sci & Engn, Qingdao 266100, Peoples R China; 3.Ocean Univ China, Coll Math Sci, Qingdao 266100, Peoples R China; 4.Tianjin Univ Technol, Coll Environm Sci & Safety Engn, Tianjin 300384, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Shi Honghua,Shen Chengcheng,Zheng Wei,et al. A model to assess fundamental and realized carrying capacities of island ecosystem: A case study in the southern Miaodao Archipelago of China[J]. ACTA OCEANOLOGICA SINICA,2016,35(2):56-67.
APA	Shi Honghua.,Shen Chengcheng.,Zheng Wei.,Li Fen.,Wang Xiaoli.,...&Ding Dewen.(2016).A model to assess fundamental and realized carrying capacities of island ecosystem: A case study in the southern Miaodao Archipelago of China.ACTA OCEANOLOGICA SINICA,35(2),56-67.
MLA	Shi Honghua,et al."A model to assess fundamental and realized carrying capacities of island ecosystem: A case study in the southern Miaodao Archipelago of China".ACTA OCEANOLOGICA SINICA 35.2(2016):56-67.