Impact of land use change on habitat quality and regional biodiversity capacity: Temporal and spatial evolution and prediction analysis

The ecological stability of a region and the promotion its coordinated environmental economic development depend on habitat quality, which is key indicator territory’s biodiversity capacity. A case study done in Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province, to determine how land use changes affect quality. types 2030 are simulated based 2000, 2010, 2020. InVEST CA-Markov models analyze predict will change Suzhou. Spatial analysis methods, such as standard deviation ellipse, center gravity analysis, spatial autocorrelation, random forest models, were used reveal temporal variation characteristics quality influencing factors. bare land, building lands, non-construction lands significantly increased city’s between 2000 due changes, while water bodies forests gradually decreased. Most high-quality habitats this found mountains. In contrast, poor area mainly concentrated urban construction lands. declined over time, followed migration path from northeast southwest. distribution degradation reveals trend downtown suburban areas. This most common mountainous areas where landscape highly fragmented. Habitat city has changed time space patterns, socioeconomic factors, use, natural environment, with having significant impact.