Fig. P1.
Trade-off between economic growth and loss of regulating ecosystem services in the lower Yangtze basin, 1930–2006: combined normalized data for gross domestic product (red line), population (blue line), and a regulating services index (green line) for two large rural lake catchments with a total land area of 14,400 km2 and a total modern population exceeding 9.3 million people. Vertical shaded bars show major political events (from left to right): People’s Republic of China founded by Mao Zedong, 1949; Great Leap Forward, 1958–1961; Cultural Revolution, 1966–1976; Deng Xiaoping’s economic reforms from late 1970s to early 1980s; leadership of Jiang Zemin from 1989; and leadership of Hu Jintao from 2003.