Abstract

The Nature Reserve plays a very important ecological role in many ways, such as soil-water conservation, flood-drought prevention, and water balance. Thus, protecting and maintaining the wetland and other crucial components of Lashihai Nature Reserve are of great importance not only to the natural environment and biodiversity conservation, but also to the development of regional economic as well as social stability. Based on the characteristics of plateau wetland of Lashihai Nature Reserve in Lijiang City, Yunnan Province, this study tried to establish an evaluation system. It is mainly aimed at evaluating the direct and indirect use value of the ecosystem service value of this vary wetland reserve. The results showed that: the total annual ecosystem service value of Lashihai Nature Reserve is 198.44 million yuan. Among all kinds of values, the climate regulation value ranks first with 79.35 million yuanꞏa-1, accounting for 39.99% of the totality, then followed by the tourism value and resources value, while the water purification value comes the last with 0.48 million yuanꞏa-1.

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