Construction and Restoration of Landscape Ecological Network in Urumqi City Based on Landscape Ecological Risk Assessment

Yongyu Zhao, Alimujiang Kasimu, Hongwu Liang and Rukeya Reheman
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Yongyu Zhao: School of Geography and Tourism, Xinjiang Normal University, Urumqi 830054, China
Alimujiang Kasimu: School of Geography and Tourism, Xinjiang Normal University, Urumqi 830054, China
Hongwu Liang: School of Geography and Tourism, Xinjiang Normal University, Urumqi 830054, China
Rukeya Reheman: School of Geography and Tourism, Xinjiang Normal University, Urumqi 830054, China

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 13, 1-21

Abstract: The ecological protection and sustainable development of Urumqi have become an important part of the high-quality growth of the urban agglomeration on the northern slope of Tianshan Mountain. Under the impacts of multi-source factors, the ecological landscape pattern of Urumqi has changed due to it being in a fragile eco-environment, so an ecological network is desperately needed to enhance ecological security patterns. Taking Urumqi city as the study area, the ecological risk evaluation model and the minimum cumulative resistance model were integrated to analyze the spatial and temporal features of landscape ecological risk from 2000 to 2020, and the future land use simulation model was used to predict the ecological risk pattern of Urumqi in 2030, construct a landscape ecological network, and propose ecological security protection strategies. Since 2000, land use in Urumqi has undergone drastic changes: the built-up land area has increased significantly, the landscape has diversified, and landscape fragmentation has shown a decreasing trend from the main urban area as the core to the urban fringe. The high-risk landscape ecology shows a decreasing trend from east to west, mainly in the bare land areas with sparse vegetation, whereas the risk is relatively low in woodland, arable land, and built-up areas. The change of risk in the study area is mainly influenced by the typical defective factors of oasis cities such as urban expansion, land desertification, and sparse vegetation. The landscape ecological network is mainly located in the southwest, central, and east of the study area, whereas there is no corridor distribution in the north and southeast, which is mainly caused by the special geographical location and climatic conditions. The ecological network mainly consists of 10 ecological sources and 10 ecological corridors and proposes conservation strategies for the optimization of the landscape pattern and for the construction of the ecological security pattern in Urumqi, providing a guide for the improvement of ecological security.

Keywords: landscape ecological risk; MCR model; FLUS model; landscape pattern (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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