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Methodology for Mapping the Ecological Security Pattern and Ecological Network in the Arid Region of Xinjiang, China

  • Yishan Wang,
  • Fei Zhang,
  • Xingyou Li,
  • Verner Carl Johnson,
  • Mou Leong Tan,
  • Hsiang-Te Kung,
  • Jingchao Shi,
  • Jupar Bahtebay and
  • Xin He

30 May 2023

Xinjiang is an important arid region in the northwest of China and plays an important role in the field of ecological security protection in China. Because of its aridity, the identification of critical areas for ecological protection and the optimiz...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Remote Sensing of Ecohydrology)
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  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,838 Views
22 Pages

31 August 2022

To understand the changing pattern of urban carbon metabolism from the perspective of urban “production–living–ecological” (PLE) space, taking Suzhou City as an example, this study constructed a carbon metabolic network model...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Urban Planning Pathways to Carbon Neutrality)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,201 Views
21 Pages

21 March 2025

Urbanization has significantly impacted ecological connectivity, making the optimization of ecological networks (ENs) crucial. However, many existing strategies focus on overall network structure and overlook the spatial concentration of local ecolog...

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  • Open Access
29 Citations
4,597 Views
20 Pages

Construction and Optimization of an Ecological Network in Zhengzhou Metropolitan Area, China

  • Jingeng Huo,
  • Zhenqin Shi,
  • Wenbo Zhu,
  • Tianqi Li,
  • Hua Xue,
  • Xin Chen,
  • Yanhui Yan and
  • Ran Ma

Rapid urbanization aggravates issues related to protection and optimization of the ecological environment. Constructing an ecological network system, including ecological values in planning, and using landscape effects efficiently are important for a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Land Use and Urban-Rural Integration)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,589 Views
18 Pages

Multiple Probability Ecological Network and County-Scale Management

  • Jing Xie,
  • Binggeng Xie,
  • Kaichun Zhou,
  • Junhan Li,
  • Jianyong Xiao,
  • Changchang Liu and
  • Xuemao Zhang

14 August 2023

Ecological networks are threatened by rapid urbanization; the implementation of ecological network management and maintenance strategies is essential in the county units of urban agglomerations. This study focused on the Changsha–Zhuzhou–...

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  • Open Access
34 Citations
4,960 Views
22 Pages

Construction and Optimization of Wetland Landscape Ecological Network in Dongying City, China

  • Jun Ma,
  • Qiang Yu,
  • Huiyuan Wang,
  • Linzhe Yang,
  • Ruirui Wang and
  • Minzhe Fang

3 August 2022

Rapid urbanization has led to deteriorated wetland water quality, reduced biodiversity, and fragmented wetland landscapes, which seriously threaten the sustainable development of regional ecology. Based on land use data of Dongying City, Shandong Pro...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Landscape Connectivity: A Comprehensive View from Different Perspectives)
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  • Open Access
476 Views
32 Pages

13 July 2026

Rapid urbanization has intensified ecosystem service supply–demand mismatches, severely constraining regional sustainable development. Ecological security patterns represent a critical strategy to address these challenges, yet existing studies...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,496 Views
17 Pages

Construction and Optimization of Ecological Network in Kuqa, China

  • Halimulati Abulaiti,
  • Aynur Mamat and
  • Maimaiti Mijiti

5 February 2025

The ability to achieve coordinated progress towards ecological protection has become an important ecological network, is the basic guarantee, and an important way to achieve regional and urban ecological security. This study takes Kuqa City as the re...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Assessment of Spatial and Temporal Landscape Patterns Under Land Use Change)
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  • Open Access
27 Citations
4,549 Views
19 Pages

25 March 2023

Due to the rapid development of urbanization, land-use types have changed greatly, which has led to many ecological problems. Therefore, the current research objective is to solve the problems in existence in Jinan, so as to determine the existing la...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers for Landscape Ecology Section)
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  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,695 Views
21 Pages

Balancing Urban Expansion and Ecological Connectivity through Ecological Network Optimization—A Case Study of ChangSha County

  • Shaobo Liu,
  • Yiting Xia,
  • Yifeng Ji,
  • Wenbo Lai,
  • Jiang Li,
  • Yicheng Yin,
  • Jialing Qi,
  • Yating Chang and
  • Hao Sun

11 July 2023

The counties have experienced urban expansion and landscape pattern fragmentation. As carriers of new urbanization, the balanced development between urban expansion and landscape connectivity in the counties needs to be emphasized. The uncontrolled e...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Landscape Connectivity: A Comprehensive View from Different Perspectives)
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  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,156 Views
24 Pages

Constructing Ecological Networks Based on Ecosystem Services and Network Analysis in Chongqing, China

  • Huihui Yang,
  • Shuiyu Yan,
  • Xinhao Wang,
  • Chun Li,
  • Haixing Meng and
  • Qiang Yao

11 May 2024

Ecological networks in mountainous regions are vital for enhancing ecosystem functionality and ensuring regional ecological stability, alleviating the contradiction between land use and ecological development in rapid urbanization. However, the compl...

(This article belongs to the Section Landscape Ecology)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,348 Views
23 Pages

3 September 2024

The acceleration of urbanization has resulted in varying degrees of impact on the stability and health of high-density urban ecosystems. Building urban ecological networks is crucial for safeguarding biodiversity and sustaining ecosystem vitality. In...

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65 Citations
5,756 Views
16 Pages

Research on Urban Ecological Network Under the Threat of Road Networks—A Case Study of Wuhan

  • Zuohua Miao,
  • Lei Pan,
  • Qiaozhi Wang,
  • Pei Chen,
  • Cheng Yan and
  • Likun Liu

The creation of a road network can lead to the fragmentation and reduction of the connectivity of the ecological habitat. The study of urban ecological networks under threat from rapidly developing road networks is of great significance in understand...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Algorithms and Techniques in Urban Monitoring)
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  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,174 Views
20 Pages

Coupling an Ecological Network with Multi-Scenario Land Use Simulation: An Ecological Spatial Constraint Approach

  • Wenbin Nie,
  • Bin Xu,
  • Shuai Ma,
  • Fan Yang,
  • Yan Shi,
  • Bintao Liu,
  • Nayi Hao,
  • Renwu Wu,
  • Wei Lin and
  • Zhiyi Bao

1 December 2022

To balance ecological protection and urban development, a land use simulation model that couples an ecological network (EN) and multiple scenarios was developed based on the PLUS model. The simulation of land use in the Qiantang River Basin in 2030 s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Landscape Ecology in Remote Sensing)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,004 Views
15 Pages

22 January 2024

Ecological networks serve as vital tools for safeguarding biodiversity and ensuring regional ecological stability. This study, conducted in Wanning City, employs minimum-area threshold analysis to pinpoint crucial ecological sources while extracting...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Spatiotemporal Data Analytics and Modeling of Land Systems: Shaping Sustainable Landscape)
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  • Open Access
16 Citations
8,008 Views
16 Pages

Actor-network theory, which emerged from science and technology studies in the 1980s, regards everything in the social and ecological systems as a continuous result of the network of relations where they are located. Social-ecological resilience, wit...

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110 Citations
7,650 Views
17 Pages

Combining MSPA-MCR Model to Evaluate the Ecological Network in Wuhan, China

  • Chunguang Hu,
  • Ziyi Wang,
  • Yu Wang,
  • Dongqi Sun and
  • Jingxiang Zhang

29 January 2022

Rapid urbanization development and construction has seriously threatened the connectivity of habitat patches in cities and hindered the construction of ecological networks in highly urbanized areas. Among them, China is affected by early compressed u...

(This article belongs to the Topic Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability)
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  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,198 Views
16 Pages

13 July 2022

With the accelerated urbanization and frequent occurrence of climate extremes, the regional ecosystem service level has ushered in a great challenge, and the resilience of the ecological network has gradually weakened, leading to lower ecological ben...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Landscape Analysis, Planning and Regional Development)
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  • Open Access
36 Citations
4,702 Views
18 Pages

Construction of Ecological Network Based on Multi-Scale Conversion and Nesting

  • Haoran Yu,
  • Yongzheng Wang,
  • Chan Eme,
  • Xin Fan,
  • Yuejing Rong,
  • Qiang Zhang and
  • Zhe Liang

30 April 2021

Ecological protection and the restoration of full-array ecosystems is an important part of ecological civilization construction, which is a powerful measure to implement the concept of green development and help bridge the gap between the respective...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Optimal Utilization and Management of Natural Resources)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,129 Views
22 Pages

16 December 2024

Accelerated urbanization and the excessive exploitation of the tourism industry are leading to a diminution of ecological spaces in tourist cities. Ecological networks are an effective method for improving patch connectivity and maximizing ecological...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Sustainability and Applications)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,823 Views
26 Pages

3 November 2025

Under the dual pressures of rapid urbanization and intense human socioeconomic activities, habitat fragmentation and poor landscape connectivity have become critical issues in cities. Constructing ecological networks is essential for maintaining urba...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Spatial Analysis and Spatial Planning for Sustainability in Urban Areas)
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4 Citations
1,407 Views
23 Pages

24 April 2025

Constructing a rational ecological network is crucial for balancing regional development with environmental protection. However, existing research typically emphasizes the analysis of overall patterns, lacking an in-depth exploration of the dynamic c...

(This article belongs to the Topic Remote Sensing and GIS for Monitoring Land Use Change and Its Ecological Effects)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,551 Views
21 Pages

Optimization of the Loess Plateau of the China Ecological Network Pattern Based on a PLUS Model

  • Xiaoyan Luo,
  • Xun Luo,
  • Xianhua Yang,
  • Jian Wang,
  • Jialing Liao,
  • Yu He,
  • Ye Du and
  • Ye Yang

18 July 2025

Optimizing the ecological network is an urgent need to enhance the stability of the ecosystem and maintain regional ecological security. We utilized the PLUS (Patch-generating Land Use Simulation) model to simulate the land use patterns of the Loess...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Assessment of Spatial and Temporal Landscape Patterns Under Land Use Change)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,003 Views
20 Pages

15 March 2026

Assessing and optimizing regional ecological networks is critical for mitigating fragmentation-driven ecological risks and informing evidence-based territorial spatial planning in China. In this study, we developed a comprehensive evaluation framewor...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Eco-Sensitive Areas: Ecosystem Services, Protected Lands, and Current Challenges (Third Edition))
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95 Citations
12,978 Views
16 Pages

Green space plays an important role in sustainable urban development and ecology by virtue of multiple environmental, recreational, and economic benefits. Constructing an effective and harmonious urban ecological network and maintaining a sustainable...

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464 Views
21 Pages

12 July 2026

Ecological network resilience is an important indicator for evaluating whether regional ecosystems can maintain structural connectivity and functional stability under external disturbance. However, long-term changes in ecological network structure an...

(This article belongs to the Section Ecology)
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  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,771 Views
18 Pages

12 January 2022

In the planning stage of the intercity railway network, the ecological sensitivity evaluation of the planning scheme is not only the key content to explore the ecological environmental rationality of the planning scheme but also a scientific means to...

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61 Citations
5,525 Views
20 Pages

Habitat destruction and declining ecosystem service levels caused by urban expansion have led to increased ecological risks in cities, and ecological network optimization has become the main way to resolve this contradiction. Here, we used landscape...

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399 Views
26 Pages

7 August 2026

Coal mining landscapes require restoration strategies that account not only for where ecological risk is concentrated but also for how risk constrains landscape connectivity. However, landscape ecological risk assessment is still commonly used as a z...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Eco-Sensitive Areas: Ecosystem Services, Protected Lands, and Current Challenges (Third Edition))
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7 Citations
3,462 Views
24 Pages

10 July 2024

As main components of terrestrial ecosystems, forests play irreplaceable roles in maintaining ecological balance and protecting the basic environment for human survival and development. In this study, the dynamic changes in the forest landscape conne...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainability, Biodiversity and Conservation)
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  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,243 Views
21 Pages

31 August 2024

Ecological networks are an effective strategy to maintain regional ecological security. However, current research on ecological network construction in areas with large-scale resource extraction is limited. Moreover, classic ecological network constr...

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440 Views
26 Pages

8 June 2026

Developing ecological networks is essential for preserving regional ecosystem stability and for reducing risks associated with degraded landscape security and ecological health. However, regional ecological network studies in lake environments that c...

(This article belongs to the Topic Sustainable Development and Coordinated Governance of Urban and Rural Areas Under the Guidance of Ecological Wisdom—3rd Edition)
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3 Citations
1,608 Views
24 Pages

14 August 2025

Constructing an ecological security pattern (ESP) represents an effective strategy for alleviating regional landscape fragmentation, which is crucial for maintaining regional ecological health. This study focuses on the Jinan metropolitan area as a c...

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728 Views
23 Pages

20 February 2026

Rapid urbanization has led to severe landscape fragmentation and ecosystem degradation in the Gansu Section of the Yellow River Basin (GSYRB). Focusing on this region, this study identified the spatial distribution of key ecological elements; consequ...

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26 Citations
9,458 Views
24 Pages

5 January 2021

This study shows that an integrated ecological and cultural corridor network can help guide city development strategies to better preserve ecological and cultural assets. Traditionally, protection zones and suitable development areas are often identi...

(This article belongs to the Collection Sustainable Integrated Clean Environment for Human & Nature)
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25 Citations
10,967 Views
15 Pages

20 September 2016

To realize more sustainable and resilient urban social-ecological systems, there is great need for active engagement from diverse public agencies, non-profit organizations, businesses, natural resource managers, scientists, and other actors. Cities p...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Urban Resilience and Urban Sustainability: From Research to Practice)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,037 Views
19 Pages

16 November 2021

With the development of the economy and urbanization, the contradiction between water use and supply is growing, and it is necessary to explore the relationship and evolutionary process of water flow in the water system from a systematic perspective....

(This article belongs to the Section Water Resources Management, Policy and Governance)
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  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,725 Views
27 Pages

High-intensity urban development and economic exploitation have led to the fragmentation and isolation of regional habitat patches, and biodiversity is under serious threat. Scientific identification and effective optimization of ecological networks...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Land Use Changes and the Corresponding Ecological Risks)
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8 Citations
3,264 Views
19 Pages

19 May 2023

Habitat fragmentation seriously threatens urban biodiversity conservation and ecosystem integrity. Constructing an ecological network and improving the connection level between habitat patches can effectively alleviate the general ecological environm...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainability, Biodiversity and Conservation)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,985 Views
28 Pages

21 April 2025

Landscape fragmentation in mountainous resource-based cities has become increasingly serious, particularly in blue-green spaces. This study aims to establish a quantitative theoretical foundation for constructing an ecological network using the integ...

(This article belongs to the Section Architectural Design, Urban Science, and Real Estate)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,548 Views
15 Pages

29 October 2023

In recent years, rapid global changes have accelerated the loss of habitats and fragmentation of landscapes, emerging as primary drivers of the alarming decline in global biodiversity. Through the construction of ecological networks (ENs) that simula...

(This article belongs to the Section Forest Ecology and Management)
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3 Citations
2,224 Views
17 Pages

27 October 2022

The appropriate ecological operation method is suggested in order to create a harmonious human settlement environment and achieve the sustainable development of residential areas. The key to determining whether the model can be successfully implement...

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354 Views
23 Pages

24 July 2026

Karst river basins require restoration approaches that identify vulnerable connections while distinguishing ecological constraints from governance implementation conditions. This study developed a sequential Structure–Resistance–Connectiv...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Spatial Optimization for Multifunctional Land Systems)
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10 Citations
3,252 Views
23 Pages

Construction of Green Space Ecological Network in Xiongan New Area Based on the MSPA–InVEST–MCR Model

  • Xiaoqi Feng,
  • Zhiyu Du,
  • Peiyuan Tao,
  • Huaqiu Liang,
  • Yangzi Wang and
  • Xin Wang

20 November 2024

With the rapid pace of urbanization, the integrity and connectivity of ecosystems are under serious threat, making biodiversity conservation a top priority. We use the Xiongan New Area in China as a case study to explore the significance and applicat...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,780 Views
43 Pages

24 December 2025

Urban towns and smart city governments face increasing challenges in maintaining ecological balance as urbanization, industrial activity, and climate dynamics evolve. The degradation of ecological gardens, biodiversity parks, and waterways adversely...

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9 Citations
2,353 Views
26 Pages

17 April 2025

Rapid urbanization has greatly altered urban ecological spaces and habitat quality functions, threatening regional biodiversity and the sustainability of landscapes. Therefore, constructing a comprehensive ecological network and ecological safety pat...

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9 Citations
3,319 Views
25 Pages

14 June 2021

In this study, a model was proposed based on the sustainable boundary approach, to provide decision support for reservoir ecological operation with the dynamic Bayesian network. The proposed model was developed in four steps: (1) calculating and veri...

(This article belongs to the Section Hydrology)
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1,164 Views
20 Pages

15 January 2026

Ecological continuity cannot be limited to spatial surfaces and corridors without consideration of the day–night cycle. This integration is achieved through the implementation of dark infrastructure, a field that remains comparatively understud...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Spatial Planning and Land-Use Management: 2nd Edition)
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11 Citations
2,795 Views
23 Pages

14 May 2024

Urbanisation is a significant driver of global climate change. It increases global temperatures, impacting the health of residents. To date, research on urban heat environments has focused on society or ecology, overlooking the value of integrating t...

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6 Citations
2,935 Views
29 Pages

27 April 2023

The destruction of vegetation structure and quantity leads to the weakening of the carbon sequestration capacity of the ecosystem. Building an ecological spatial network is a potent method for studying vegetation spatial distribution structures. The...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Research on the Structure and Function of Forest and Grassland Based on Multi-Source Remote Sensing Data)

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