Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH
Volume 9, Issue 8, Pages 2986-3001Publisher
MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph9082986
Keywords
ecological land; land use; cellular automation model; ecosystem management
Funding
- National Science Foundation of China [41061049, 40801106, 41161087]
- Technology Foundation of Jiangxi Education Department [GJJ12269]
- Young Scientist Plan Fund of Jiangxi Province and Planning Project of Ministry of Environment Protection of China [STSN-09-00]
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Ecological land is like the liver of a city and is very useful to public health. Ecological land change is a spatially dynamic non-linear process under the interaction between natural and anthropogenic factors at different scales. In this study, by setting up natural development scenario, object orientation scenario and ecosystem priority scenario, a Cellular Automation (CA) model has been established to simulate the evolution pattern of ecological land in Beijing in the year 2020. Under the natural development scenario, most of ecological land will be replaced by construction land and crop land. But under the scenarios of object orientation and ecosystem priority, the ecological land area will increase, especially under the scenario of ecosystem priority. When considering the factors such as total area of ecological land, loss of key ecological land and spatial patterns of land use, the scenarios from priority to inferiority are ecosystem priority, object orientation and natural development, so future land management policies in Beijing should be focused on conversion of cropland to forest, wetland protection and prohibition of exploitation of natural protection zones, water source areas and forest parks to maintain the safety of the regional ecosystem.
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