Urban Habitat Quality Enhancement and Optimization under Ecological Network Constraints

Yanhai Zhou (), Jianwei Geng and Xingzhao Liu
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Yanhai Zhou: College of Landscape Architecture and Art, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
Jianwei Geng: College of Landscape Architecture and Art, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
Xingzhao Liu: College of Landscape Architecture and Art, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China

Land, 2024, vol. 13, issue 10, 1-18

Abstract: The process of urbanization leads to the rapid expansion of construction land and brings a series of ecological and environmental problems. The ecological network, as a linear landscape element, is of great significance to improve the quality of the regional ecological environment. In this study, the Morphological Spatial Pattern Analysis (MSPA) and the model of Minimum Cumulative Resistance (MCR) were used to construct the ecological corridors in the central city of Fuzhou, and the land use pattern under the constraints of the ecological network was simulated and quantified by the patch-level land use simulation (PLUS) tool with the results of the identification of ecological corridors. Meanwhile, with the help of InVEST habitat quality model, the regional habitat quality under different development scenarios was compared. The results show that (1) 19 ecological sources and 35 ecological corridors were identified; (2) under the constraints of ecological corridors, the area of forested land in the study area in 2027 was increased by 1.57% and the area of built-up land was reduced by 0.55% compared with that in 2022; (3) and under the constraints of ecological corridors, the mean value of habitat quality in Fuzhou City improved by 0.0055 and 0.0254 compared with 2022 and 2027 natural evolution scenarios, respectively. The study provides decision-making assistance for the construction of ecological corridors from the perspective of land use planning.

Keywords: ecological corridor; PLUS model; land use planning; InVEST model; habitat quality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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