ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Environ. Sci.
Sec. Environmental Informatics and Remote Sensing
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2025.1653103
Evolution of landscape pattern and ecological environment effect in Pudacuo National Park,China
Provisionally accepted
- Southwest Forestry University, Kunming, China
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As an important part of China's ecological security barrier on the plateau, the rational configuration of landscape patterns and a good ecological environment are crucial guarantees for the high-quality development of national parks. Using Landsat image data from 2000 to 2024, this study analyzes Pudacuo National Park as an example. The study uses Morphological Spatial Pattern Analysis (MSPA) to analyze the evolution characteristics of the landscape pattern and the Remote Sensing Ecological Index (RSEI) to evaluate the ecological environment quality(EEQ). In the meantime, the geodetector, bivariate spatial autocorrelation, and Spearman correlation coefficient were combined to investigate and ascertain the geographic relationship between the two. The results of the research indicate that: (1) the park's core area is primarily forested and far away from populated regions, with high stability in its patch density (PD)、Aggregation Index (AI) and Largest Patch Index (LPI); in the contrary, the edge area's grassland and unused land are heavily impacted by human disturbances like grazing and tourism, and the landscape pattern is distinguished by fragmentation and degradation of ecological functions;(2) From 2000 to 2024, the ecological environment quality of Pudacuo National Park continued to improve. The ecological environment quality in the study area was mainly rated as "good," accounting for up to 49.04% of the total, with the trend in ecological environment quality remaining "basically stable." (3) Correlation analysis showed that ecological environment quality was significantly positively correlated with LPI, AI, and COHESION. The spatiotemporal evolution of ecological environment quality in Pudacuo National Park is not only constrained by landscape fragmentation and core patch patterns but is also closely related to landscape diversity and overall spatial structure.This study aims to provide a scientific basis and decision support for the ecological civilization construction and sustainable development of Pudacuo Park.
Keywords: ecological quality1, landscape pattern2, national parks3, RSEI4, MSPA5
Received: 24 Jun 2025; Accepted: 28 Aug 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 He, Zhang, Li, Ran, Chen and Huang. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Xiaoyuan Huang, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming, China
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