Spatiotemporal effects of urban sprawl on habitat quality in the Pearl River Delta from 1990 to 2018.

ABSTRACT: Since the implementation of the Chinese economic reforms. The habitat quality of coastal has gradually deteriorated with economic development, but the concept of "ecological construction" has slowed the negative trend. For quantitative analysis of the correlation between the Pearl River Delta urban expansion and changes in habitat quality under the influence of the policy, we first analyzed the habitat quality change based on the InVEST model and then measured the impact of construction land expansion on the habitat quality through habitat quality change index (HQCI) and contribution index (CI) indicators. Finally, the correlation between urbanization level and habitat quality was evaluated using geographically weighted regression (GWR) and the Self-organizing feature mapping neural networ

SUBMITTER: Wu J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8263729 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature