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Quantifying Land Use/Land Cover and Landscape Pattern Changes and Impacts on Ecosystem Services.

Qingjian Zhao¹, Zuomin Wen¹, Shulin Chen¹

¹College of Economics and Management, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, China.

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

|December 28, 2019

Summary

Land use changes in Guizhou Province show decreased cropland and grassland, replaced by forest and water. These landscape shifts significantly impacted ecosystem service values (ESVs), necessitating better land resource management.

Keywords:

ESV index land cover land use landscape pattern

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Area of Science:

Environmental Science
Ecology
Remote Sensing

Background:

Guizhou Province, China, has undergone significant land use and land cover changes over the past two decades.
Understanding these dynamics is crucial for assessing impacts on ecosystem services.

Purpose of the Study:

To model and analyze dynamic changes in land use, land cover, and landscape patterns in Guizhou Province.
To calculate and assess the impact of these landscape changes on ecosystem service values (ESVs).
To provide policy recommendations for sustainable land resource management.

Main Methods:

Utilized satellite remote sensing imagery, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and Fragstats software.
Modeled and calculated dynamic changes in land use, land cover, and landscape patterns.
Quantified changes in ecosystem service values (ESVs) based on landscape pattern evolution.

Main Results:

Observed a decrease in cropland and grassland, with an increase in water bodies and urban/industrial/residential areas. Forestland area initially increased then decreased.
Identified a clear replacement trend where cropland and grassland were substituted by forest land and water bodies.
Found a decrease in landscape aggregation and adjacency, alongside an increase in landscape heterogeneity.
Documented fluctuations in total ESV from 2000 to 2017, indicating a significant impact of landscape pattern evolution.

Conclusions:

Landscape pattern evolution in Guizhou Province has demonstrably impacted ecosystem service values.
Effective land resource planning, industrial structure optimization, and regulatory policies are essential to mitigate negative impacts and enhance ESVs.