Comparative study on the soil conservation function of InVEST model under different perspectives
Received date: 2014-05-10
Request revised date: 2014-10-09
Online published: 2014-12-10
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Soil conservation is one of the important service functions of ecosystem. The Loess Plateau is the most serious soil erosion area in the world, and the middle reaches of the Yellow River Basin is the main source of silt. Therefore, it is of great significance to conduct further studies on the soil conservation in the middle reaches of the Yellow River, especially in the aspects of soil and water conservation, land use structure adjustment, conversion of farmland to forests, eco-compensation as well as reservoir management.By taking the Yingpanshan Reservoir region, the source of Wuding River which is the primary tributary of the Yellow River, as an example, this paper uses the Sediment Retention Model of InVEST to compare the capacity of trapping sediment of land parcel, sediment output and sediment retention from the perspective of hydrology and land use, and try to figure out which result is more scientific, and to reveal the ability of soil conservation for Yingpanshan Reservoir region and its spatial pattern in 2010. The results are shown as follows: (1) The boundary of subwatershed in hydrological perspective can ensure the integrity of the removal of sediment by vegetation along hydrologic flowpaths, which makes the evaluation result more scientific and reasonable, since the evaluation results are significantly different under different perspectives. Therefore, the Sediment Retention Model of InVEST should choose natural basin boundary in the sense of hydrology as the sub-basin unit to evaluate the soil conservation function, instead of choosing the inputting boundary of land use. (2) When dredging for reservoir is considered, the total sediment retained, the total sediment export, the mean sediment export the total amount of sediment retained from sediment originating upstream, and the mean amount of sediment retained are 586482.60 t, 129868.61 t, 12.93t/hm2, 1559198.40t, and 151.57 t/hm2, respectively. (3) The sediment retention capacity of land parcel increases gradually from upstream to downstream, while the capability of sediment output has a contrary tendency. The sediment retention ability of west tributary of the Wuding River is more stronger than that of the east tributary. In addition, the low-value areas of soil conservation in the two major tributaries are both observed in the upstream.
Key words: InVEST; soil conservation; Loess Plateau; Yingpanshan Reservoir region
HU Sheng , CAO Mingming , LIU Qi , ZHANG Tianqi , QIU Haijun , LIU Wen , SONG Jinxi . Comparative study on the soil conservation function of InVEST model under different perspectives[J]. GEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH, 2014 , 33(12) : 2393 -2406 . DOI: 10.11821/dlyj201412016
Fig. 1 The geographical location of Yingpanshan reservoir region图1 研究区位置 |
Tab. 1 The removal of sediment by vegetation along hydrologic flowpaths表1 沉积物沿水文路径迁移原理 |
| 地块 | 截留率 | USLE | 地块截留量 | 地块输出量(Gi=1-Ei) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | E1 | USLE1 | 0 | USLE1 |
| 2 | E2 | USLE2 | USLE1×E2 | USLE1×G2+USLE2 |
| 3 | E3 | USLE3 | (USLE1×G2+USLE2) × E3 | (USLE1×G2+USLE2) × G3+USLE3 |
| 4 | E4 | USLE4 | USLE1×G2×G3×E4+USLE2×G3×E4+USLE3×E4 | USLE1×G2×G3×G4+USLE2×G3×G4+USLE3×G4+USLE4 |
Fig. 5 Contrast of the total sediment retained图5 基于子流域边界(a)和土地利用边界(b)的土壤保持总量对比 |
Tab. 2 C and P values of different land use types表2 土地利用类型C值和P值 |
| 土地利用 类型 | 稀疏 草地 | 旱地 | 居民地 | 裸地 | 水域 | 稀疏 灌木林 | 落叶 阔叶林 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C值 | 0.3 | 0.228 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.1 | 0.005 |
| P值 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Fig. 2 Contrast of sediment trapped amount图2 基于子流域边界(a)和土地利用边界(b)的地块沉积物截留量对比 |
Tab. 3 The partition statistics of calculation results under different boundaries表3 两种边界计算结果的分区统计 |
| 子流域编码 | 子流域边界统计结果 | 土地利用边界统计结果 | Sum1/Sum2 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sum1(t) | 像元Max1(t) | Sum2(t) | 像元Max2(t) | |||
| sub1 | 54403.30 | 1025.67 | 1009.02 | 63.60 | 53.92 | |
| sub 2 | 31548.50 | 475.53 | 738.18 | 112.71 | 42.74 | |
| sub 3 | 59612.20 | 1361.22 | 861.31 | 61.34 | 69.21 | |
| sub 4 | 48764.50 | 1394.38 | 673.26 | 65.66 | 72.43 | |
| sub 5 | 40848.50 | 469.58 | 1435.45 | 105.04 | 28.46 | |
| sub 6 | 45544.90 | 401.87 | 1355.16 | 49.06 | 33.61 | |
| sub 7 | 28476.90 | 587.33 | 1324.13 | 120.22 | 21.51 | |
| sub 8 | 23228.30 | 721.08 | 93.96 | 12.32 | 247.21 | |
| sub 9 | 41701.40 | 1438.28 | 934.82 | 303.30 | 44.61 | |
| sub 10 | 21991.90 | 400.96 | 353.52 | 44.80 | 62.21 | |
| sub 11 | 35803.70 | 887.37 | 2387.84 | 89.80 | 14.99 | |
| sub 12 | 43259.50 | 893.20 | 2065.08 | 189.62 | 20.95 | |
| sub 13 | 15862.30 | 832.49 | 207.73 | 37.50 | 76.36 | |
| sub 14 | 48680.00 | 1079.46 | 825.59 | 169.87 | 58.96 | |
| sub 15 | 32182.50 | 1530.09 | 387.63 | 43.16 | 83.02 | |
| sub 16 | 14574.20 | 458.43 | 369.18 | 41.98 | 39.48 | |
| 库区 | 586482.60 | 1530.09 | 15021.87 | 303.30 | 39.04 | |
Fig. 3 Contrast of sediment output amount图3 基于子流域边界(a)和土地利用边界(b)的地块沉积物输出量对比 |
Fig. 4 Contrast of the sediment retained图4 基于子流域边界(a)和土地利用边界(b)的土壤保持量对比 |
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
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