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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Ecol. Evol.
Sec. Models in Ecology and Evolution
Volume 12 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fevo.2024.1401291

Research on the coupled evolution of LULCC and habitat quality in the Ganqing section of the Yellow River Basin based on multi-scenario simulation

Provisionally accepted
Jie Yang Jie Yang *Baopeng Xie Baopeng Xie Jie Zhou Jie Zhou
  • Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, China

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    Taking the Ganqing section of the Yellow River Basin as the research area, this paper sets four scenarios of natural development, cultivated landcropland protection, ecological protection and rapid development, and uses the FLUSFuture Land Use Simulation Model (FLUS Future Land Use Simulation Model) and Integrated Valuation of Environmental Services and Tradeoffs (InVEST) models to simulate land use under four different scenarios in 2030. Habitat quality pattern and coupling coordination degree model was used to explore coupling coordination characteristics of LULCC (Land Use and Land Cover Change)and habitat quality under different scenarios. The findings indicated that over 70% of the total area in the Ganqing section of the Yellow River Basin is primarily used as grassland. In 2030, the habitat quality in the Ganqing section of the Yellow River Basin is ranked as follows: ecological protection scenario is the highest, followed by the natural development scenario, rapid development scenario, and finally the cropland protection zone scenario. From 1990 to 2030, the Ganqing section of the Yellow River Basin primarily exhibits highly coordinated and moderately coordinated development in land use and habitat quality. The spatial distribution shows lower values in the southeast and higher values in the northwest. The habitat quality level in 2030 under four scenarios in the Ganqing section of the Yellow River Basin is: ecological protection scenario > natural development scenario > rapid development scenario > cultivated landcropland protection zone scenario; highly coordinated development and moderate coordinated development are the main types of coupled coordinated development of land use and habitat quality in the Gansu-QinghaiGanqing section of the Yellow River Basin from 1990 to 2030, showing a spatial pattern of "low in the southeast and high in the northwest". At the

    Keywords: Coupled evolution, Gansu-QinghaiGanqing section of the Yellow River Basin, habitat quality, Land Use Change (LUCC) Modeling, Ecological protection

    Received: 15 Mar 2024; Accepted: 10 Oct 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Yang, Xie and Zhou. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Jie Yang, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, China

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