ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Regional Ecological Network Planning
for Biodiversity Conservation: A Case Study
of China’s Poyang Lake Eco-Economic Region
Haiou Yang1,2,3, Wenbo Chen2, Xiaoping Chen2
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1College of Forestry, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang 330045, China
2Key Laboratory of Landscape and Environment, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang 330045
3College of Tourism and Territorial Resources, Jiujiang University, Jiujiang 332005, China
Submission date: 2016-10-19
Final revision date: 2017-01-26
Acceptance date: 2017-02-08
Online publication date: 2017-07-05
Publication date: 2017-07-25
Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 2017;26(4):1825-1833
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Ecological networks have been considered to be an effective strategy to counter habitat fragmentation,
which is occurring in the urbanization context. Researchers and planners have begun to integrate ecological
networks in both thematic planning and urban or regional planning for biodiversity conservation and
sustainable development. In this paper, we integrated the least-cost path model, network structure analysis,
and gravity model to construct a regional ecological network of Poyang Lake Eco-economic Region, China.
The least-cost model was improved by integrating three resistance factors, including land cover, slope,
and human-induced pressure into it, presenting the landscape characteristics comprehensively in corridor
simulation. The network structure analysis was employed to assess the proposed ecological network and the
gravity model was used to identify the relative significance of network elements. Results indicated that the
proposed hierarchical ecological network has good circuitry, complexity, and connectivity. Spatial analysis
of prioritized network elements and breaking points revealed the regional connectivity condition, presenting
significant reference to decision making in both land-use management and network implementation. Our
study demonstrated that the integrated methodology is effective in regional ecological network planning and
shows feasibility to be applied to other regions.
CONFLICT OF INTEREST
The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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