The Spatial and Temporal Evolution and Drivers of Habitat Quality in the Hung River Valley

Xin Fan, Xinchen Gu, Haoran Yu, Aihua Long, Damien Sinonmatohou Tiando, Shengya Ou, Jiangfeng Li, Yuejing Rong, Guiling Tang, Yanjun Zheng, Mingjie Shi, Mengwen Wang, Xiong Wang and Chunbo Huang
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Xin Fan: School of Public Administration, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China
Xinchen Gu: State Key Laboratory of Hydraulic Engineering Simulation and Safety, School of Civil Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
Haoran Yu: Anhui Urbanization Development Research Center, Hefei 230022, China
Aihua Long: State Key Laboratory of Simulation and Regulation of Water Cycle in River Basin, China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research, Beijing 100044, China
Damien Sinonmatohou Tiando: School of Public Administration, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China
Shengya Ou: School of Geography and Tourism, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an 710119, China
Jiangfeng Li: School of Public Administration, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China
Yuejing Rong: State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China
Guiling Tang: School of International Education, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430078, China
Yanjun Zheng: Student Innovation & Entrepreneurship Guidance Centre, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China
Mingjie Shi: College of Resource and Environment, Xinjiang Agricultural University, Urumqi 830052, China
Mengwen Wang: College of Resources and Environment, Shandong Agricultural University, Taishan 271018, China
Xiong Wang: Research Center for Spatial Planning and Human-Environment System Simulation, School of Geography and Information Engineering, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China
Chunbo Huang: Research Center for Spatial Planning and Human-Environment System Simulation, School of Geography and Information Engineering, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China

Land, 2021, vol. 10, issue 12, 1-20

Abstract: The survival and sustainability of regional species is constrained by habitat quality. In recent decades, the intensification of human activities on a global scale has had a profound impact on regional ecosystems and poses a serious threat to regional sustainable development. Scientific measurement of the drivers of habitat quality can provide important support for the development of effective biodiversity conservation and sustainable land-use policies. Taking the Hung River Valley as an example, the InVEST model was used to assess the habitat quality of the study area in 2000, 2005, 2010, 2015, and 2020 and to explore its spatial and temporal variation and distribution characteristics in combination with the spatial autocorrelation model, and the geographically weighted regression (GWR) model was used to explore the drivers of habitat quality change. The results show the following: (1) The overall habitat quality shows an increasing trend during 2000–2020, but the expansion of construction land in the central region plays a dominant role in the degradation of regional habitat quality. (2) The “Guide-Ledu” line is the dividing line of habitat quality in the Hung River Valley, with a general distribution of “south is good, north is bad” and “south is hot, north is cold”. (3) Natural factors such as slope and elevation basically shape the overall distribution pattern of habitat quality, while urbanisation factors such as population density, gross domestic product, and the night-time lighting index are generally negatively correlated with habitat quality. The results of the study can reveal the linkage between ecosystems and land-use change in the context of urbanisation.

Keywords: geographically weighted regression (GWR); habitat quality; Hung River Valley; landscape pattern; urbanisation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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