Improvement of Forest Ecosystem Functions in Karst Desertification Control

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2023
• Subjects: Abies fanjingshanensis; agroforestry; agronomic measures to water saving; bacteria; biodiversity; Biology, life sciences; dissolved organic carbon/nitrogen; eco-industry; ecological industry; ecological products; Ecological science, the Biosphere; ecosystem service supply; ecosystem services; element trait; evaluation indicator systems; farmland hydrological cycle; forest; forests; forests ecosystem; functional improvement; fungus; fuzzy integrated evaluation; Guanling County; Guizhou; hydrogen and oxygen stable isotopes; hydrologic niche separation; intercropping peanut; investment strategy; karst; karst desertification; karst desertification control; karst desertification environment; karst forest; karst rocky desertification; karst rocky desertification area; karst rocky desertification control areas; karst spring; landscape connectivity; landscape security pattern; leaf; Life sciences: general issues; loquat; Mathematics and Science; microbial carbon use efficiency; N2O emission; physicochemical indices; physiological trait; plant adaptability; plant functional traits; planting combinations; principal component analysis; redundancy analysis; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; Research and information: general; resilience assessment; resilient landscape; response; rocky desertification; root; rural planning; sensitivity; soil; soil aggregate stability; soil nutrients; species diversity; structural optimization; structural trait; structure; terrestrial ecosystem; value accounting; value realization; vegetation restoration; vegetation water use strategy; water and fertilizer regulation
• ISBN: 9783036591865; 3036591869; 9783036591872; 3036591877
• DOI: 10.3390/books978-3-0365-9187-2

In the past 20 years, karst desertification control has produced remarkable results, and the South China karst has been a global hotspot for greening. However, in the new stage of karst desertification control, the functional lag of forest ecosystems and the insufficient supply capacity of ecosystem services are gradually becoming prominent. We not only lack systematic research on vulnerability and resilience, structure and stability, ecological assets and services, carrying capacity and ecological security, and service trade-offs/synergies and optimization in controlled ecosystems. There is still a lack of research on the ecological processes of newly constructed forests in improving ecosystem functions and services. Therefore, this reprint mainly focuses on the research improvement of forest ecosystem functions in karst desertification control. This includes the improvement mechanism of ecosystem structure, function, and services, the mechanism of ecosystem service tradeoff/synergy, and function optimization. An optimization model of ecosystem function and an improvement path for eco-product supply are introduced. The role of functional traits in the maintenance of ecological function and services is also established, and social–ecological responses to afforestation in karst desertification control are discussed.