摘 要: |
The evolution of land use functions and structures in ecologically fragile watersheds have a direct impact on regional food security and sustainable ecological service supply. Previous studies that quantify and simulate land degradation in ecologically fragile areas from the perspective of long-term time series and the spatial structure of watersheds are rare. This paper takes the Huangshui Basin of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in China as a case study and proposes a long-time series evolution and scenario simulation method for land use function using the Google Earth Engine platform, which realizes the simulation of land use function and structure in ecologically fragile areas by space-time cube segmentation and integrated forest-based prediction. This allows the analysis of land degradation in terms of food security and ecological service degradation. The results show that: (1) the land use function and structure evolution of the Huangshui watershed from 1990 to 2020 have a significant temporospatial variation. In the midstream region, the construction land expanded 151.84% from 1990 to 2004, driven by urbanization and western development policy; in the middle and downstream region, the loss of farmland was nearly 12.68% from 1995 to 2005 due to the combined influence of the policy of returning farmland to forest and urban expansion. (2) By 2035, the construction land in the watershed will be further expanded by 28.47%, and the expansion intensity will be close to the threshold in the upstream and midstream areas and will continue to increase by 33.53% over 2020 in downstream areas. (3) The evolution of land use function and structure will further induce land degradation, causing a 15.30% loss of farmland and 114.20 km(2) of occupation of ecologically vulnerable areas, seriously threatening food security and ecological protection. Accordingly, this paper proposes policy suggestions to strengthen the spatial regulation for land degradation areas and the coordination of upstream, midstream, and downstream development. |