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Vegetation Response to Urban Landscape Spatial Pattern Change in the Yangtze River Delta, China

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  • Yu Cao

    (Department of Land Management, School of Public Affairs, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China)

  • Yucen Wang

    (Department of Land Management, School of Public Affairs, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China)

  • Guoyu Li

    (Department of Land Management, School of Public Affairs, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China)

  • Xiaoqian Fang

    (Department of Land Management, School of Public Affairs, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China)

Abstract

Urbanization has destroyed and fragmented large amounts of natural habitats, resulting in serious consequences for urban ecosystems over past decades, especially in the rapidly urbanizing areas of developing countries. The Yangtze River Delta Urban Agglomeration, which has experienced the fastest socioeconomic development in China, was selected as the study area. To explore the relationship between urbanization and vegetation dynamics at the agglomeration scale, the spatiotemporal characteristics of urban expansion and vegetation variation of the study area were evaluated by landscape spatial analysis, regression analysis, and trend analysis. The results show that the urbanization level of the study area exhibited a continuous upward trend, with Shanghai as the regional core city, and the level of urbanization gradually decreased from the center towards the periphery of the urban agglomeration. The overall urban expansion presented obvious landscape spatial heterogeneity characteristics and the emergence of new cities and towns enhanced landscape connectedness and created a more aggregated urban agglomeration. Noticeable spatiotemporal differences of vegetation variation were observed from 2004 to 2013. Areas with relatively low vegetation coverage showed a steady growth trend, while those with higher vegetation coverage reported a significant decreasing trend. The spatial heterogeneity analysis of the vegetation trend demonstrated that vegetation degradation was a dominant and inevitable process across the study area. However, some parts of the urban sprawl area, especially at the periphery of the metropolis, may experience a greening trend rather than a browning trend, indicating that urbanization does not necessarily lead to large-scale vegetation degradation. Although urbanization poses a negative impact on vegetation and physical environments, urbanization has not yet reduced a large area of vegetation at the regional level.

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  • Yu Cao & Yucen Wang & Guoyu Li & Xiaoqian Fang, 2019. "Vegetation Response to Urban Landscape Spatial Pattern Change in the Yangtze River Delta, China," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(1), pages 1-18, December.
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