{"title":"Ecological assessment and driver analysis of high vegetation cover areas based on new remote sensing index","authors":"Xiaoyong Zhang, Weiwei Jia, Shixin Lu, Jinyou He","doi":"10.1016/j.ecoinf.2024.102786","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Ecosystem degradation and decline are central issues that urgently require resolution within global environmental protection efforts. Accordingly, accurately analyzing the spatiotemporal evolution of regional ecological environmental quality and exploring its natural and anthropogenic driving factors of ecological environmental quality are crucial for protecting regional ecological environments and advancing sustainable development strategies. Therefore, this study created a new remote sensing ecological index to investigate the patterns of ecological quality change in vegetation-covered areas over a long time series and identified the intensity and local response relationships of various driving factors, including climate, topography, soil, and urbanization. The results revealed an upward trend in the ecological quality of the Heilongjiang region, with a high degree of spatial autocorrelation in ecological quality. The ecological grades in forest-covered areas significantly surpassed those in other vegetated, urban, and desert regions. Through a collaborative analysis of various geographical statistical methods, the intensities of the driving factors and their local response relationships were determined. This study provides a method for accurately and rapidly assessing regional ecological environmental quality and exploring the complex interactions of driving factors, thus offering a theoretical basis for monitoring regional-scale ecological conditions, balancing ecological and economic development, and informing environmental protection policies.","PeriodicalId":51024,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Informatics","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.8000,"publicationDate":"2024-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Ecological Informatics","FirstCategoryId":"93","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2024.102786","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"ECOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Ecosystem degradation and decline are central issues that urgently require resolution within global environmental protection efforts. Accordingly, accurately analyzing the spatiotemporal evolution of regional ecological environmental quality and exploring its natural and anthropogenic driving factors of ecological environmental quality are crucial for protecting regional ecological environments and advancing sustainable development strategies. Therefore, this study created a new remote sensing ecological index to investigate the patterns of ecological quality change in vegetation-covered areas over a long time series and identified the intensity and local response relationships of various driving factors, including climate, topography, soil, and urbanization. The results revealed an upward trend in the ecological quality of the Heilongjiang region, with a high degree of spatial autocorrelation in ecological quality. The ecological grades in forest-covered areas significantly surpassed those in other vegetated, urban, and desert regions. Through a collaborative analysis of various geographical statistical methods, the intensities of the driving factors and their local response relationships were determined. This study provides a method for accurately and rapidly assessing regional ecological environmental quality and exploring the complex interactions of driving factors, thus offering a theoretical basis for monitoring regional-scale ecological conditions, balancing ecological and economic development, and informing environmental protection policies.
期刊介绍:
The journal Ecological Informatics is devoted to the publication of high quality, peer-reviewed articles on all aspects of computational ecology, data science and biogeography. The scope of the journal takes into account the data-intensive nature of ecology, the growing capacity of information technology to access, harness and leverage complex data as well as the critical need for informing sustainable management in view of global environmental and climate change.
The nature of the journal is interdisciplinary at the crossover between ecology and informatics. It focuses on novel concepts and techniques for image- and genome-based monitoring and interpretation, sensor- and multimedia-based data acquisition, internet-based data archiving and sharing, data assimilation, modelling and prediction of ecological data.