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Chinese Agricultural Science Bulletin ›› 2023, Vol. 39 ›› Issue (20): 91-99.doi: 10.11924/j.issn.1000-6850.casb2022-0647

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Land Use Change in Hanjiang River Basin: Spatio-temporal Characteristics and Its Ecological Security Assessment

GUAN Yafang(), JIAO Yang, ZANG Chuanfu()   

  1. School of Geography, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510000
  • Received:2022-07-28 Revised:2022-09-24 Online:2023-07-15 Published:2023-07-10

Abstract:

The study aims to reveal the spatio-temporal change characteristics of land use and the ecological security assessment of the change in Hanjiang River Basin, and provide a scientific basis for the sustainable use of land resources in the basin. Based on the exploration of land use change and its driving forces obtained by transfer matrix and principal component analysis, the evaluation index system of land ecological security was established by using pressure—state—response model, to further evaluate the land ecological security. The results showed that from 1980 to 2020, the construction land and the cultivated land, the two most significant land types in Hanjiang River Basin, increased by 1301.61 km2 and decreased by 1013.89 km2 respectively. They converted to each other and spatially concentrated in Chaoshan plain in the southeast of the basin. Economic development and population growth were the two main factors promoting the urbanization process of the basin, and aggravated the contradiction between the construction land and the ecological land. From 2000 to 2019, the level of land ecological security in Hanjiang River Basin changed following a path of “relatively unsafe—unsafe—relatively unsafe”, indicating that the land ecological environment was gradually improved after deterioration. In conclusion, in Hanjiang River Basin, the land ecological security is closely related to the land use change and has been in an unstable state for a long term. So it is necessary to adjust the land use pattern to alleviate the pressure on land ecological security.

Key words: Hanjiang River Basin, land use change, ecological security assessment, driving force, spatio-temporal change characteristics, pressure-state-response model