Identifying ecologically valuable and sensitive areas: a case study analysis from China |
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| Institution: | 1. Institute of Biological and Health Sciences, Federal University of Alagoas, Maceió, Brazil;2. School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK;3. Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation (ICMBio),Chapada Diamantina National Park, Palmeiras, Brazil;1. Gorgan University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Gorgan, Golestan, Iran, Iran;2. Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran;1. Institute of Applied Ecology, Shanghai Academy of Environmental Sciences, Shanghai 200233, China;2. Changjiang Water Resources Protection Institute, Wuhan 430051, China;3. School of Urban Construction and Management, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, China;4. Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, Qatar University, P.O. Box 2713, Doha, Qatar;5. Department of Ecology and Genetics, Uppsala University, Campus Gotland, SE-621 67 Visby, Sweden;1. Faculty of Environmental Studies, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia;2. Institute for Environment and Development (LESTARI), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia;1. Key Laboratory of Watershed Geographic Sciences, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China;2. Department of Geography, Environment and Population, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide 5005, Australia |
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| Abstract: | The expansion of artificial constructs with the rapid economic development in China has led to ecological and environmental emergencies. The extent of the decline in natural resources and environmental conditions has recently been recognized. Identifying “ecological protection redlines”, i.e. ecological limits, to guarantee ecological baselines for natural resources and ecosystem service functions would therefore help to coordinate economic development and to protect ecological resources in the coming years. We used remotely sensed and climatic data to delimit the ecological protection redlines for Zibo, a typical and important city in Shandong province, as an example to illustrate the principles and methodology of ecological protection redlines. The area of the ecological protection redlines for Zibo encompassed 1132.26 km2, accounting for 18.98% of the total area of Zibo, were mainly distributed in the southern regions of the municipality, and consisted of extremely important areas of ecosystem service functions, including water conservation, both soil and water conservation, windbreaks and sand fixation, and the conservation of biodiversity. This area is extremely sensitive, and development is forbidden. Strict measures of management and control should be implemented to protect the long-term effectiveness of ecological protection redlines. |
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| Keywords: | Ecological protection redlines Ecological security Ecological function Ecological sensitivity Forbidden development China |
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