Construction and evaluation of ecological network in Poyang Lake Eco-economic Zone, China.

doi:10.13287/j.1001-9332.201605.016

Abstract

Abstract: Large-scale ecological patches play an important role in regional biodiversity conservation. However, with the rapid progress of China’s urbanization, human disturbance on the environment is becoming stronger. Large-scale ecological patches will degrade not only in quantity, but also in quality, threatening the connections among them due to isolation and seriously affecting the biodiversity protection. Taking Poyang Lake Eco-economic Zone as a case, this paper established the potential ecological corridors by minimum cost model and GIS technique taking the impacts of landscape types, slope and human disturbance into consideration. Then, based on gravity quantitative model, we analyzed the intensity of ecological interactions between patches, and the potential ecological corridors were divided into two classes for sake of protection. Finally, the important ecological nodes and breaking points were identified, and the structure of the potential ecological network was analyzed. The results showed that forest and cropland were the main landscape types of ecological corridor composition, interaction between ecological patches differed obviously and the structure of the composed regional ecological network was complex with high connectivity and closure. It might provide a scientific basis for the protection of biodiversity and ecological network optimization in Poyang Lake Eco-economic Zone.

CHEN Xiao-ping, CHEN Wen-bo. Construction and evaluation of ecological network in Poyang Lake Eco-economic Zone, China.[J]. Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology, 2016, 27(5): 1611-1618.

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