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Ecosystem services and landscape sustainability Group aims to develop effective models and tools for the conservation and management of ecosystem services, providing sustainable landscape governance approaches for ecological conservation restoration and land use planning, thereby enhancing the sustainability of socio-ecosystems. We focus on the quantitative assessment, trade-off analysis, and spatial optimization of ecosystem service supply, demand, and flow. The research area covers global, national, regional, city and township scales, with a focus on urban, agricultural, wetland, and other relevant ecosystems.

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Ecosystem services trade-offs

There are often trade-offs between two or more ecosystem services, where the enhancement of one service will be at the cost of the loss of other ecosystem services. Reasonable landscape layout is beneficial to mitigate or even eliminate the trade-offs.

Multi-Objective Optimization

Regions or ecosystems can simultaneously provide multiple ecosystem services or bring various negative ecological impacts. The optimization goals are also diverse, often aiming to maximize one or several ecosystem services or minimize one or several negative impacts under certain constraints or alternative scenarios, thereby achieving multi-objective optimization.

Landscape patterns

Adjusting the spatial patterns of different land use compositions and arrangements to improve the capacity of ecosystem services supply per unit area within a certain landscape scope or scale.

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ESTTO was developed by "Ecosystem services and landscape sustainability Group" led by Prof. Xiao Sun. It innovatively converts raster data and constraints into abstract linear programming mathematical problems and implements them through a plug-in architecture. It conveniently utilize various solvers for commercial (GUROBI, IBM ILOG CPLEX) and open-source/free (SCIP, CBC) purposes to assist in generating production possibility frontier and then finding the optimal solution and landscape spatial patterns for reducing trade-offs between ecosystem services or socio-ecological indicators, or achieving win-win outcomes.

The study cases which have used the ESTTO.

1. Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, China

2. Atlanta Metropolitan region, USA

3. Zengcheng, Guangzhou, China

4. Yangtze River Delta region

5. Pearl River Delta region

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