Effect of Urban fringes green space fragmentation on ecosystem service value

PLoS One. 2022 Feb 10;17(2):e0263452. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0263452. eCollection 2022.

Abstract

In this study, an urban fringe green space classification system was established to explore the spatiotemporal variation of green space landscape and ecosystem service value (ESV) based on multi-source land-use data of Ganjingzi district from 2000 to 2018. (1) Results show that the total green space area declined from 359.57 to 213.46 km2 over the study period. Green space large plaque index (LPI) and class area both gradually declined, whereas the number of plaques (NP) and plaque density (PD) gradually increased, indicating green space landscape fragmentation. (2) Additionally, the value of green space ecosystem services reduced from 397.42 to 124.93 million yuan. The dynamic degree of ESV change in green space increased or decreased moderately, always being < 0 and showing a decreasing trend of ESV. From a spatial variation perspective, dynamic degrees of ESV variation in the western and northern regions with relatively intensive green space were higher than those in the east. Regarding ESV of various green space types, forest land had the highest functional values of ecological regulation and support, whereas arable land provided the highest functional values of production supply. (3) The ecological service function value of green space system is negatively correlated with PD, NP, edge density, landscape shape index, and Shannon's diversity index, and positively correlated with aggregation index, contagion metrics, and LPI. The correlation coefficient between the climate regulation function of forest and the change of number of plaques is -0.874. The correlation coefficient of the recreation and culture of the wetland to the plaque density change is no less than -0.214.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • China
  • City Planning
  • Conservation of Natural Resources*
  • Ecosystem*
  • Forests
  • Humans
  • Parks, Recreational*

Grants and funding

This research study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant no.41471140, 41171137,41671158). Yingying Guan wrote the main manuscript text, conducted the experiment and analyzed the data; Xueming Li contributed to all aspects of this work; Songbo Li, He Liu, He Sun revised the paper. All authors reviewed the manuscript.