Ecological pattern of urban forest landscape of Ji'nan City, China

Abstract

The ecological pattern research on urban forest landscape is the foundation and premise of urban forest system planning and urban ecological construction, as well as an important way of optimizing urban spatial structure, giving full play to urban forest ecological function and creating ecological and livable environment. Ecological pattern of urban forest landscape in built-up area of Ji'nan city was quantitatively analyzed and the corresponding optimization countermeasures were put forward through quantitative analysis and gradient analysis of the overall landscape ecological pattern by RS and GIS technology with 10 landscape indices at patch level and landscape level. The results showed that urban forest coverage rate in built-up areas was 15.8%. At the landscape level, the overall landscape ecological pattern of urban forest showed following patterns: relatively complete types of urban forest landscape patches, greater degree of landscape fragmentation, different area of various types of urban forest, large major patches, and highly connected same patch types. At the level of patch type, the ecological public welfare forest was dominated by large patches. The shape of scenic recreational forest was regular and dominated by large and medium patches. The shape of road forest and subsidiary forest was complex and dominated by small patches. The production and management forest was lacking. At the level of patch type, landscape recreational forest was the dominant type, ecological public welfare forest patch area was the largest, road forest and ancillary forest fragmentation was large. At the level of landscape, urban central forest landscape fragmentation was large, human interference was serious, and landscape shape was complex. Based on the analysis of the ecological pattern of urban forest landscape, we proposed the construction scheme of Ji'nan urban forest ecological network, which was "one ring, two networks, three four axes, and multi-point chessboard". Such scheme would help strengthen the connectivity of various types of urban forests and exert overall ecological benefits of large-scale ecosystems.