This analysis reveals trends in ecosystem services over 20 years in the Qingzang Plateau, suggesting urgent management shifts amid climate and anthropogenic pressures.
Key Points
Ecosystem services in the Yarlung Tsangpo, Lhasa, and Nianchu River Basins improved overall from 2000 to 2020, despite intensifying human impacts.
The InVEST model was used to quantify four key ecosystem services, culminating in a Comprehensive Ecosystem Service index for assessment.
Principal Component Analysis and Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling were used for decoupling complex drivers of ecosystem services.
The findings highlight a simultaneous reality of ecological improvement and development pressure, urging a shift in management strategies.