The Impact of Urban Development on Wetland Conservation

Abstract

Wetland is an integrated ecosystem which includes ecosystems such as hydrology, soil, vegetation, and biological environments. At present, the urbanization rate of China’s national economic development process is rapidly increasing, and by the end of 2021, the urbanization rate of China’s resident population will be 64.72%. This paper analyzes the hydrological effects of urbanization, the impact of water resources, climate change, and biodiversity on wetland ecosystems, and also analyzes the role of wetlands on the ecological environment, especially in terms of ecological and cultural values. The economic and social benefits of the whole society are also analyzed. The ecological and social benefits of urban wetlands have made their conservation and sustainable development increasingly important worldwide. Based on the current situation of China’s urban wetland protection and restoration, we put forward countermeasures and suggestions for China’s urban wetland protection. This is conducive to promoting the sustainable development of the urban wetland ecosystem, promoting the operation of the market, realizing the optimal allocation of ecological resources, improving the benefits of ecological environmental protection, and promoting the coordinated development of the ecological environment. This paper provides a reference for the better development of wetland conservation under urbanization development conditions.

Analyzing the Worldwide Wetland Parks Research: A Spectral-Cluster Algorithm Latent Semantic Index Approach

“…Five countries account for more than 40% of global wetland loss: the United States (15.6% of the total), China (12.6%), India (6.5%), Russia (4.5%), and Indonesia (4.1%) [13]. To protect the diverse fauna in urbanized wetlands, raising awareness of and increasing participation in wetland protection are likely to be the most effective methods of enhancing wetland protection [15].…”

“…Wetland parks are natural or artificially formed parks that combine wetland ecological functions and typical park features, achieving the goals of environmental protection, science education, leisure, and recreation [16]. Since a wetland park includes a certain proportion of wetland area, it has important functions in conserving water sources, purifying water, storing floods, controlling flooding, fighting droughts, regulating regional climates, and increasing biodiversity [4,15]. Wetland parks feature a combination of resource protection and rational utilization in wetland ecosystems, which includes the safeguarding and using key resources, including abiotic, biological (such as wild animals and plant resources), and cultural resources [15,16].…”

“…Since a wetland park includes a certain proportion of wetland area, it has important functions in conserving water sources, purifying water, storing floods, controlling flooding, fighting droughts, regulating regional climates, and increasing biodiversity [4,15]. Wetland parks feature a combination of resource protection and rational utilization in wetland ecosystems, which includes the safeguarding and using key resources, including abiotic, biological (such as wild animals and plant resources), and cultural resources [15,16]. Thus, wetland parks are important to wetland ecosystems.…”

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“…Urbanization in cities changes the environment and affects habitats and biodiversity. It causes loss of the surface and quality of the habitats of wetlands (1,5,6,(26)(27)(28)(29)(30)(31)(32)(33)(34)(35)(36)(37)(38). Birds in wetland environments are important indicators of wetland environment quality and urbanization affects their population and biodiversity (8,(26)(27)(28)(29)(30)(31)(32)(33)(34)(35).…”

“…It causes loss of the surface and quality of the habitats of wetlands (1,5,6,(26)(27)(28)(29)(30)(31)(32)(33)(34)(35)(36)(37)(38). Birds in wetland environments are important indicators of wetland environment quality and urbanization affects their population and biodiversity (8,(26)(27)(28)(29)(30)(31)(32)(33)(34)(35). Avifauna and especially migratory birds depend on water and habitats in wetland environments because they spend their entire or an important part of their life cycles in wetlands.…”