Abstract
With the rapid economic development and urbanization process in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, land use and landscape pattern have been changed. In order to reveal the temporal and spatial changes and provide scientific basis for the local land use planning and landscape pattern optimization made by government, based on the classification results of Globeland 30 land cover data in 2000 and 2010, this paper quantitatively analyzed the land use transfer status and the dynamic change of landscape pattern in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei by adopting the method of land use transfer matrix and landscape index. The results show that the land use and landscape patterns in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei have been changed significantly from 2000 to 2010. Overall, land use in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region has been changed greatly, which shows that the cultivated land area has been decreased by 3721.67 km2, while the artificial surface area and grassland area have increased by 2721.29 km2 and 657.09 km2, respectively. From the six partitions of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, it can be seen that the subareas with significant changes are Sand Control Farmland Protection Zone in Yellow River Flood Plain, Water Conservation Area for Sand Control in Mountain and Hilly Areas of Northwest Taihang Mountains, and Human Settlement Environment Maintenance and Farmland Protection Zone of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Urban Agglomeration. The arable land area of these three zones has decreased 572.77 km2, 1553.94 km2 and 1359.53 km2, respectively. From the perspective of landscape pattern change, patch density and fragmentation degree in the southeast and northwest of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region increase; and the dominant patches in the southeast of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region have formed a good connectivity; the whole Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region shows irregular shape and discontinuous enhancement of landscape types, the landscape patch types increase and enrich, and the dominance shows a downward trend.
Highlights
Land use/land cover change (LUCC), as the main manifestation of human activities that significantly change the Earth’s environmental system, is a hot and frontier area of global environmental change research [1] [2] [3] [4]
In order to reveal the temporal and spatial changes and provide scientific basis for the local land use planning and landscape pattern optimization made by government, based on the classification results of Globeland 30 land cover data in 2000 and 2010, this paper quantitatively analyzed the land use transfer status and the dynamic change of landscape pattern in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei by adopting the method of land use transfer matrix and landscape index
During the ten-year period, the total area of arable land decreased by 3721.67 km2, and its transfer-out area was 7813.11 km2, of which the area converted into grassland and artificial surface
Summary
Land use/land cover change (LUCC), as the main manifestation of human activities that significantly change the Earth’s environmental system, is a hot and frontier area of global environmental change research [1] [2] [3] [4]. Lamine et al [17] selected relevant indexes in FRAGSTATS to analyze the relationship between land use/land cover change and landscape fragmentation in the Mediterranean region. Most of these land use status and landscape pattern studies are based on cities or small areas as research areas, and few are evaluated from a whole region. This paper selects the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region as the research area, and adopts the two methods of land use conversion matrix and landscape index to analyze the changes in land use status on a larger spatial scale
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