The effects of urbanization on ecosystem services for biodiversity conservation in southernmost Yunnan Province, Southwest China

Cheng, Fangyan; Liu, Shiliang; Hou, Xiyong; Wu, Xue; Coxixo, Ana

doi:10.1007/s11442-019-1651-9

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“…Human use of land changes the type of land use and affects the level of habitat quality. The greater the intensity of human activities, the greater the threat to the regional habitat quality, and the lower the level of habitat quality and biodiversity [67,68].…”

Section: The Invest Habitat Quality Modelmentioning

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“…Threat raster GIS raster files with the distribution and intensity of each individual threat showing each of them affecting the habitat were prepared. By comprehensively considering the current situation of the study area, related research results and local experts' opinions [35][36][37]67,72,73], six threat taster datasets were prepared (paddy land, dry land, urban land, rural residential area, industrial and mining land, and unused land). Each cell in the raster contains a value that indicates the density or presence of a threat within it.…”

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Effects of Land Use/Cover on Regional Habitat Quality under Different Geomorphic Types Based on InVEST Model

Wang

Cheng

2022

Remote Sensing

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Research on habitat quality change is of great significance for regional ecological security. Analysis of spatiotemporal change of habitat quality based on different geomorphic types can restore the background of ecological environment in historical periods and provide scientific support for revealing the evolution law of regional ecological environment quality and ecological restoration. This study aimed to identify the change in habitat quality under different geomorphic types from 1995 to 2018. Based on DEM data, geomorphic types of different scales were divided. The InVEST habitat quality model was used to analyze the spatiotemporal change in habitat quality in individual land use types in the Altay region. The spatiotemporal changes and main influencing factors of habitat quality under the background of different geomorphic types were explored. Remote sensing data was used to analyze the land use/cover changes. Sixteen threat sources, their maximum distance of impact, mode of decay, and sensitivity to threats were also estimated for each land use type. The results showed that habitat quality decreased significantly in 2015, which was related to the rapid expansion of cultivated and construction land as threat sources, as well as the decrease of forestland and grassland as sensitive factors. However, habitat quality improved significantly in 2018, because of the implementation of ecological restoration policy in 2015. Affected by elevation and topographic relief, the geomorphic type with the best habitat quality index was the large undulating middle mountain (0.927) and the worst was the medium altitude platform (0.351). Woodland contributed the most to habitat quality in large undulating middle mountain (35.07), and bare rock gravel land contributed the most to medium altitude platform (127.68). Habitat quality of different geomorphic types showed obvious spatial aggregation, and from high altitude to low altitude showed a banded ladder-like distribution. Changes in habitat quality during the past three decades suggested that the conservation and restoration strategies applied in regional ecosystem were effective. On the basis of the analysis results, four types of zoning management schemes were divided, and the ecological management and conservation measures were put forward. Therefore, this study can help decision makers, especially regarding the lack of data on biodiversity.

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Section: The Invest Habitat Quality Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Threat Datamentioning

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Effects of Land Use/Cover on Regional Habitat Quality under Different Geomorphic Types Based on InVEST Model

Wang

Cheng

2022

Remote Sensing

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“…(4) Landscape simulation and assessment of biodiversity and ecosystem service: Two simulation models for ecosystem service, InVEST and PANDORA, were applied by Gong et al (2019) and Cheng et al (2019) to estimate the change in biodiversity under landscape evolution scenarios driven by human land use. Both models have a module for the relationship between ecosystem service and biodiversity within the landscape context, while the robustness and rationality of the simulation results are to be tested by empirical studies.…”

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The emerging cross-disciplinary studies of landscape ecology and biodiversity in China

Shen

Kang

et al. 2019

J. Geogr. Sci.

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The spatiotemporal landscape heterogeneity implies multiple biodiversity mechanisms across scales, and the cross-disciplinary studies between landscape ecology and biodiversity are becoming a new research field in China. This paper briefly reviews the development of the field by comparing papers published in international journals and Chinese journals; then it investigates the differences in the trends and focuses between international and Chinese studies. We also introduce several study areas that have emerged over the last 10 years in this field, including metacommunity assembly, landscape genetics, biodiversity and ecosystem service relationship, and landscape planning for biodiversity conservation. The major advances emerging in this field in China over the past 5 years can be classified into six subject areas: 1) effects of urban landscape and urbanization on biodiversity; 2) altitudinal patterns of biodiversity in mountain landscapes; 3) effects of topographic heterogeneity on plant community assembly and species coexistence; 4) impacts of landscape patterns and processes on animal behaviors; 5) forest fires and spatiotemporal patterns of vegetation responses; and 6) landscape ecology applications in natural conservation planning and design. In an attempt to promote cross-field studies between geography and ecology, this special issue collected 10 research articles, involving multiple landscape types and biological assemblages, in order to explore the interaction between landscape features and biodiversity. We anticipate that the future development of this active front will be primarily driven by the application of novel information techniques and the realistic demands of sustainability issues, in addition to answering scientific questions cross scales.

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“…The relative importance of these variables is likely to differ across rural, peri-urban and urban areas. For example, within peri-urban areas, agricultural lands are ultimately developed for housing and other infrastructure [16], leading to higher land fragmentation and a decline in local food production [17].…”

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Evidence of Similarities in Ecosystem Service Flow across the Rural-Urban Spectrum

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Willcock

Lewis

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Land

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In 2006, the world’s population passed the threshold of being equally split between rural and urban areas. Since this point, urbanisation has continued, and the majority of the global population are now urban inhabitants. With this ongoing change, it is likely that the way people receive benefits from nature (ecosystem services; ES) has also evolved. Environmental theory suggests that rural residents depend directly on their local environment (conceptualised as green-loop systems), whereas urban residents have relatively indirect relationships with distant ecosystems (conceptualised as red-loop systems). Here, we evaluate this theory using survey data from >3000 households in and around Hyderabad, India. Controlling for other confounding socioeconomic variables, we investigate how flows of 10 ES vary across rural, peri-urban and urban areas. For most of the ES we investigated, we found no statistical differences in the levels of direct or indirect use of an ecosystem, the distance to the ecosystem, nor the quantities of ES used between rural and urban residents (p > 0.05). However, our results do show that urban people themselves often travel shorter distances than rural people to access most ES, likely because improved infrastructure in urban areas allows for the transport of ES from wider ecosystems to the locality of the beneficiaries’ place of residence. Thus, while we find some evidence to support red-loop–green-loop theory, we conclude that ES flows across the rural-urban spectrum may show more similarities than might be expected. As such, the impact of future urbanisation on ES flows may be limited, because many flows in both rural and urban areas have already undergone globalisation.

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The effects of urbanization on ecosystem services for biodiversity conservation in southernmost Yunnan Province, Southwest China

Cited by 23 publications

References 56 publications

Effects of Land Use/Cover on Regional Habitat Quality under Different Geomorphic Types Based on InVEST Model

Effects of Land Use/Cover on Regional Habitat Quality under Different Geomorphic Types Based on InVEST Model

The emerging cross-disciplinary studies of landscape ecology and biodiversity in China

Evidence of Similarities in Ecosystem Service Flow across the Rural-Urban Spectrum

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