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Construction of Rural Multifunctional Landscape Corridor Based on MSPA and MCR Model—Taking Liukeng Cultural and Ecological Tourism Area as an Example

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  • Jiaqi Hu

    (School of Architecture and Planning, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China)

  • Sheng Jiao

    (School of Architecture and Planning, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China)

  • Huiwen Xia

    (School of Architecture and Planning, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China)

  • Qiaoyun Qian

    (School of Architecture and Planning, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China)

Abstract

Rapid urbanization has caused serious negative impacts on the ecological and human landscapes of rural areas in China. By constructing a network of multifunctional landscape corridors, we can effectively connect landscape patches, reduce the danger of landscape fragmentation, and effectively protect rural areas′ ecological and human landscape resources. With the help of the Morphological Spatial Pattern Analysis (MSPA) research method, the source sites for constructing landscape corridors were selected from the core areas that play an essential role in the performance of regional ecological functions, using the Liukeng Cultural and Ecological Tourism Area as the study area. The results of MSPA analysis are incorporated into the construction of the landscape resistance surface, the landscape corridor network is constructed using the minimum resistance model (MCR) and gravity model, and the landscape corridor network is improved by adding ecological steppingstones and humanistic landscape nodes. The results showed that ten important corridors and 13 secondary corridors were constructed based on 12 source patches in the study area; 5 ecological steppingstones and ten humanistic landscape nodes were added to the optimized network, 21 corridors were added, and 48 ecological breakpoints were proposed to be restored. The optimized network closure (0.65), line point rate (2.15), network connectivity (0.73), and other indicators indicate that the optimized study area has good connectivity of landscape corridors. The study provides a comparative analysis of landscape granularity suitable for mesoscale. Integrating historical and humanistic landscapes into the construction of landscape corridors is an optimization of previous studies that focused only on natural ecology and neglected historical and humanistic landscapes. The study can be a reference for future research on multi-functional landscape corridors and ecological networks in mesoscale and rural areas. At the same time, the construction of multifunctional landscape corridors can promote the conservation of natural and historical human landscapes and the future development of tourism in rural areas.

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  • Jiaqi Hu & Sheng Jiao & Huiwen Xia & Qiaoyun Qian, 2023. "Construction of Rural Multifunctional Landscape Corridor Based on MSPA and MCR Model—Taking Liukeng Cultural and Ecological Tourism Area as an Example," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(16), pages 1-19, August.
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