Development of ecosystem services evaluation models: Research progress.

Ecosystem services contribute to human well-being. To study and evaluate the ecosystem services can help to achieve the sustainable management of ecosystems. This paper introduced 10 ecosystem services models including InVEST,ARIES,and SolVES,and approached the applicability,requirements for input data,and uncertainty in outputs of the models,aimed to provide references in the introduction and application of ecosystem services models in China. Among the 10 models,InVEST is the most well developed and widely used model. ARIES, MIMES,and other ecosystem service models are still under development but have good prospects in applications. It is suggested that when using these models to evaluate ecosystem services,the users are needed to be paid special attention to uncertainty analysis. The future development in the ecosystem services models was discussed.