Nature – Lyu & Li (2025): Scenario based assessment of carbon storage and habitat quality under land use change in Shandong Province China
Kechen Lyu and Zhengjun Li, IN: Scientific Reports, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-25097-y
Land-use change exerts a profound influence on ecosystem services (ES), and accurately assessing its spatiotemporal dynamics is essential for achieving regional sustainability. Taking Shandong Province as a case study, this research integrates the PLUS and InVEST models to simulate the impacts of land-use changes on carbon storage and habitat quality in Shandong Province between 2000 and 2020, and to project their dynamics under different scenarios for 2030. The InVEST (Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Tradeoffs) model was employed to reassess variations in carbon storage (CS) and habitat quality (HQ).