生态系统服务功能是指生态系统与生态过程所形成及所维持的人类赖以生存的自然环境条件与效用,主要包括生态系统产品提供功能、调节功能、支持功能与文化功能。对生态调节功能的认识与评价是区域生态环境保护与资源开发的基础。本文以海南岛为例,探讨了基于生态系统结构与过程的生态调节功能评价方法。在研究中,将海南生态系统类型划分为沟谷雨林、山地雨林、热带李雨林、山顶矮林、山地常绿阔叶林、热性针叶林、灌丛、热作园、用材林、防护林、红树林、热带草原、耕地等13类,分析与评价了海南岛各类生态系统在水源涵养、土壤保持、营养物质循环、固碳、防风减灾等方面的调节功能及其经济价值。研究表明,2002年海南岛生态系统所提供的生态调节功能的价值为2035.88×10^8-215339×10^8元,而生态系统产品价值仅为254.06×10^8元,生态调节功能价值是其产品价值的8倍多.
Ecosystem services were defined as the conditions and processes through which natural ecosystems, and the species that make them up, sustain and fulfill human life. They include provisioning, regulating, cultural, and supporting services. These form the basis on which regional environmental reserves and development are assessed and for the valuation of ecosystem services. In this paper Hainan Island is used as an example to explore methods of regulating services based on the structure and processes of a natural ecosystem. Ecosystems were classified into 13 types: valley rain forest, mountainous rain forest, tropical monsoon forest, mountainous coppice forest, mountainous evergreen forest, tropical coniferous forest, shrubs, plantation, timber forest, windbreak forest, mangrove, savanna, and crop land. Regulating services and their economic values for Hainan Island ecosystems were assessed and evaluated in terms of water-holding, soil conservancy, nutrient cycle, C fixation and windbreak functions. The economic value of the regulating services in 2002 were estimated at 2035.88×10^8 to 2153.39×10^8 Chinese Yuan (CNY), which was eight times the value of provisioning services (wood and agricultural products), estimated at just 254.06×10^8 CNY. Our analyses imply that ecosystem regulating services play a very important role in the sustainable development of Hainan Island's society and economy.