Promoting landscape connectivity of highly urbanized area: An ecological network approach

Ecological infrastructure is a popular framework for conservation planning. In this paper, one of the most urbanized regions of China-Shenzhen was chosen as the study area. Ecological infrastructure with different configurations and functions were identified and combined to form the urban ecological...

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Main Authors: Fan, C. (Author), Hu, M. (Author), Wang, S. (Author), Wang, T. (Author), Wu, M. (Author), Xia, B. (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier B.V. 2021
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520 3 |a Ecological infrastructure is a popular framework for conservation planning. In this paper, one of the most urbanized regions of China-Shenzhen was chosen as the study area. Ecological infrastructure with different configurations and functions were identified and combined to form the urban ecological network. The ecological sources were identified using morphological spatial pattern analysis (MSPA) and landscape connectivity analysis. The ecological resistance surface developed from ecosystem service value was modified basing on ecological sensitivity and landscape connectivity. The ecological network was constructed by minimum cumulative resistance (MCR) model and then optimized and accessed. The results show that: (1) the ecological network consists of 25 ecological sources distributed mainly in the southeast and west. Twenty-nine ecological corridors were extracted and 36 ecological nodes identified. (2) In the optimized ecological network, 10 new ecological sources were added, and 46 ecological corridors and 59 ecological nodes were identified. It would promote the connectivity of the ecological sources and the stability of ecological functioning process. (3) The ecological network took ecosystem service value and ecological sensitivity into consideration and lays emphasis on improving landscape connectivity, providing an approach to optimizing urban ecological network and contributing to urban planning. © 2021 
650 0 4 |a China 
650 0 4 |a connectivity 
650 0 4 |a Conservation 
650 0 4 |a conservation planning 
650 0 4 |a Conservation planning 
650 0 4 |a ecological approach 
650 0 4 |a Ecological corridors 
650 0 4 |a Ecological functioning 
650 0 4 |a Ecological networks 
650 0 4 |a Ecological resistance 
650 0 4 |a Ecological sensitivity 
650 0 4 |a Ecological sources 
650 0 4 |a ecosystem service 
650 0 4 |a Ecosystem service 
650 0 4 |a Ecosystem service values 
650 0 4 |a Ecosystems 
650 0 4 |a Guangdong 
650 0 4 |a Highly urbanized areas 
650 0 4 |a landscape 
650 0 4 |a Landscape connectivities 
650 0 4 |a Morphological spatial pattern analyses (MSPA) 
650 0 4 |a Morphological spatial pattern analysis 
650 0 4 |a Shenzhen 
650 0 4 |a suburbanization 
650 0 4 |a Surface resistance 
650 0 4 |a urban ecosystem 
650 0 4 |a urban planning 
650 0 4 |a urbanization 
700 1 |a Fan, C.  |e author 
700 1 |a Hu, M.  |e author 
700 1 |a Wang, S.  |e author 
700 1 |a Wang, T.  |e author 
700 1 |a Wu, M.  |e author 
700 1 |a Xia, B.  |e author 
773 |t Ecological Indicators