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Arid Land Geography ›› 2021, Vol. 44 ›› Issue (5): 1384-1395.doi: 10.12118/j.issn.1000–6060.2021.05.19

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Landscape ecological risk assessment and driving factors of the Shule River Basin based on the geographic detector model

SUN Lirong1,ZHOU Dongmei1(),CEN Guozhang1,MA Jing1,DANG Rui2,NI Fan1,ZHANG Jun1,3   

  1. 1. College of Resources and Environmental Science, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou 730070, Gansu, China
    2. School of Management, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou 730070, Gansu, China
    3. Gansu Provincial Water-Saving Agricultural Engineering Technology Research Center, Lanzhou 730070, Gansu, China
  • Received:2020-12-21 Revised:2021-04-26 Online:2021-09-25 Published:2021-09-22
  • Contact: Dongmei ZHOU E-mail:zhoudm@gsau.edu.cn

Abstract:

The Shule River Basin is a typical arid inland river basin with an extremely fragile ecological environment. It is also one of the most important ecological barriers of northwest China. This study analyzes the spatial and temporal variation characteristics of the landscape ecological risk in the Shule River Basin with land use data from 2000 to 2018 using Fragstats software. First, the results show that the main landscape types in the Shule River Basin are unused land and grassland with high number of patches (NP), landscape shape index (LSI), largest patch index (LPI), and aggregation index (AI) values. The contagion (CONTAG) value dramatically declined, while the Shannon’s diversity index (SHDI) and Shannon’s evenness index (SHEI) values slowly increased during the period from 2000 to 2018. This indicates that the landscape fragmentation is serious in the basin. Second, the landscape ecological risk in the Shule River Basin in the north was higher than that in the south, and a gradual downward trend was observed from 2000 to 2018, especially for the high-risk area. Third, human disturbance is the main factor affecting the spatial distribution of the landscape ecological risk, followed by NDVI and population density. The impact of the landscape ecological risk was double factor or nonlinear enhancement. No significant differences were found between natural and natural factors, while significant differences were determined between natural and anthropogenic factors.

Key words: landscape ecological risk, landscape pattern, geodetector, Shule River Basin