Ecological land use in Fuhai Town, Cixi City

Abstract

On the basis of the survey on ecological land use status in Fuhai Town,Cixi City,Zhejiang Province and applying the ecological sensitivity assessment method and landscape ecological security theory,the ecological sensitivity factors including land use status, regional exploitation intensity and distance from the environmental sensitive area in combination of landscape pattern index were used to evaluate the ecological sensitive degree and its spatial distribution situation of Fuhai Town. The results showed that the ecological land use at high,medium,low sensitivity levels occupied 7.16 per cent,27.29 per cent and 30.46 per cent of the total area respectively and the remained 35.09 per cent was not ecologically sensitive. According to the data above, this paper classified three types of ecological land such as core protection zone, limited development zone and suitable development zone from ecological security aspect and also proposed management measures for different ecological land types to provide planning basis and construction strategy for ecological land use in Fuhai town.