Landscape Ecological Risk Assessment Based on LUCC—A Case Study of Chaoyang County, China
The ecological environment is suffering from great human disturbance. Scientific assessment of landscape ecological risks can provide scientific guidance for land use management. This study focused on Chaoyang County in China, used ecological risk assessment methods to characterize the impact of lan...
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| author | Yuxin Ji Zhongke Bai Jiawei Hui |
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| description | The ecological environment is suffering from great human disturbance. Scientific assessment of landscape ecological risks can provide scientific guidance for land use management. This study focused on Chaoyang County in China, used ecological risk assessment methods to characterize the impact of land use/land cover (LUCC) change, and revealed the risk aggregation pattern with the help of spatial autocorrelation analysis. The results showed that ecological risk was increased from 2000 to 2010 but decreased from 2010 to 2018. The ecological risk of the Daling River and Xiaoling River basin was at a relatively high level, and low in the northwest and southeast of the study which covered by forest land. Occupying cultivated land for built-up and large-scale deforestation were two of the main factors to contribute to the increase of ecological risk. The distribution of High-High (HH) and Low-Low (LL) risk agglomeration areas was basically the same as risk levels, but the scope is smaller and more precise. Thus, HH and LH risk agglomeration area should be paid more attention to prevent the adverse impact of adjacent areas. Our study gave a novel perspective to investigate the pattern of ecological risk in order for government managers to identify key risk areas. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-de8d72d55e554002ac30b456997b34d22023-11-22T13:06:55ZengMDPI AGForests1999-49072021-08-01129115710.3390/f12091157Landscape Ecological Risk Assessment Based on LUCC—A Case Study of Chaoyang County, ChinaYuxin Ji0Zhongke Bai1Jiawei Hui2School of Land Science and Technology, China University of Geosciences, Beijing 100083, ChinaSchool of Land Science and Technology, China University of Geosciences, Beijing 100083, ChinaSchool of Land Science and Technology, China University of Geosciences, Beijing 100083, ChinaThe ecological environment is suffering from great human disturbance. Scientific assessment of landscape ecological risks can provide scientific guidance for land use management. This study focused on Chaoyang County in China, used ecological risk assessment methods to characterize the impact of land use/land cover (LUCC) change, and revealed the risk aggregation pattern with the help of spatial autocorrelation analysis. The results showed that ecological risk was increased from 2000 to 2010 but decreased from 2010 to 2018. The ecological risk of the Daling River and Xiaoling River basin was at a relatively high level, and low in the northwest and southeast of the study which covered by forest land. Occupying cultivated land for built-up and large-scale deforestation were two of the main factors to contribute to the increase of ecological risk. The distribution of High-High (HH) and Low-Low (LL) risk agglomeration areas was basically the same as risk levels, but the scope is smaller and more precise. Thus, HH and LH risk agglomeration area should be paid more attention to prevent the adverse impact of adjacent areas. Our study gave a novel perspective to investigate the pattern of ecological risk in order for government managers to identify key risk areas.https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/12/9/1157land use/land coverecological riskspatial autocorrelation |
| spellingShingle | Yuxin Ji Zhongke Bai Jiawei Hui Landscape Ecological Risk Assessment Based on LUCC—A Case Study of Chaoyang County, China Forests land use/land cover ecological risk spatial autocorrelation |
| title | Landscape Ecological Risk Assessment Based on LUCC—A Case Study of Chaoyang County, China |
| title_full | Landscape Ecological Risk Assessment Based on LUCC—A Case Study of Chaoyang County, China |
| title_fullStr | Landscape Ecological Risk Assessment Based on LUCC—A Case Study of Chaoyang County, China |
| title_full_unstemmed | Landscape Ecological Risk Assessment Based on LUCC—A Case Study of Chaoyang County, China |
| title_short | Landscape Ecological Risk Assessment Based on LUCC—A Case Study of Chaoyang County, China |
| title_sort | landscape ecological risk assessment based on lucc a case study of chaoyang county china |
| topic | land use/land cover ecological risk spatial autocorrelation |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/12/9/1157 |
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