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Arid Land Geography ›› 2022, Vol. 45 ›› Issue (5): 1626-1636.doi: 10.12118/j.issn.1000-6060.2022.021

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Landscape ecological risk assessment and ecological security pattern optimization construction in Yinchuan City

ZHANG Xiaodong1(),ZHAO Zhipeng1,ZHAO Yinxin1,GAO Xuehua2,MA Yuxue1,LIU Naijing1,JI Weibo1   

  1. 1. Ningxia Fundamental Geological Survey Institute, Yinchuan 750021, Ningxia, China
    2. Ninagxia Technical College of Wine and Desertification Prevention, Yinchuan 750021, Ningxia, China
  • Received:2022-01-14 Revised:2022-04-02 Online:2022-09-25 Published:2022-10-20

Abstract:

The ecological environmental protection and high-quality development of Yinchuan City have become important parts of sustainable development in the Yellow River Basin, and the regional ecological security pattern must urgently be optimized. This study draws attention to the spatial and temporal characteristics of landscape ecological risk and constructs an ecological security pattern of Yinchuan City in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, China, by employing land use data from 2000, 2010, and 2020; analyzing the spatial and temporal variation characteristics of landscape ecological risk based on landscape ecological risk assessment; and studying the ecological risk evolution rule of different land use. This study proposes the ecological security pattern and ecological security protection strategies using the landscape ecological risk index (ERI) and the minimal cumulative resistance (MCR) model. Meanwhile, in order to reflect the magnitude of resistance encountered during species migration, the paper used core ecological sources which had areas greater than 10 km2 and were mainly distributed in natural protected areas such as Helan Mountain and Baijitan National Nature Reserve. It chose six resistance factors, including landscape ERI, vegetation coverage, elevation, slope, distance from road, and distance from water to calculate the resistance value. Based on ecological sources and resistance, the minimal cumulative resistance value was obtained by MCR and the ecological corridors and ecological nodes were identified preliminarily. Finally, the preliminary ecological security pattern was optimized, combined with land use map of 2020 and the MCR value, and the ecological security strategies were proposed. The results show that: (1) Landscape ecological risk in Yinchuan City shows the distribution characteristics, are high in which the middle and north but low in the south is low. The average ERIs of 2000, 2010, and 2020 are 0.2155, 0.2145, and 0.2130, respectively, which indicates an overall downward trend in the landscape ecological risk has appeared in the past 20 years and an ecological risk level moving from high to low. (2) Twenty-two ecological corridors and 52 ecological nodes are identified. The cumulative length of the ecological corridors is 511.23 km and shows the net distribution in the northwest-southeast direction, which is sparse in the north and dense in the south. Six key ecological corridors are through the north and south. These are distributed along the region that includes the Helan Mountain National Nature Reserve and the Yellow River-Baijitan National Nature Reserve, and form the spatial distribution characteristics of “three vertical”. (3) Yinchuan City has formed an optimized ecological security pattern, which consisted of 819.56 km2 ecological sources, 22 ecological corridors, and 52 ecological nodes, and some ecological security protection strategies are proposed on the basis of ecological security pattern, which provides theoretical reference and a basis for landscape ecological risk assessment and promotion of the ecological security level.

Key words: landscape ecological risk, ecological security pattern, minimal cumulative resistance model, Yinchuan City