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The rapid rise of tourism in the karst regions has promoted the development of the local economy by relying on the unique landforms and landscapes. However, tourism development is often accompanied by land use changes and has an impact on the ecological environment. Exploring the coupling relationship between “tourism development-land use-landscape pattern” is very important for ecologically fragile karst areas. Taking the Yulong River Basin as an example, this research applied 3S technology, spatial analysis based on POIs, and regression analysis to the following: (1) identifying the process and effects of land use change, (2) determining the spatial pattern of tourism land and its correlation with land use change, (3) determining the characteristics and impacts of landscape pattern evolution. As the results suggested: (1) The significant expansion of construction land occupies a large amount of farmland, there is a balanced relationship between farmland and forest land for mutual conversion. (2) The aggregation of tourist land is affected by the trend of tourist behavior and the distribution of scenic spots. There is a significant moderate positive correlation between tourism land and construction land. (3) With the land use change, landscape heterogeneity has improved, but landscape fragmentation is serious and landscape connectivity is reduced. This research provides new evidences for the effect of the rapid development of tourism on land use change and ecological environment and as a reference to future orderly and moderate land development and ecological sustainability in karst regions.
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This study was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 32160284), the Guangxi Natural Science Foundation (No. 2020GXNSFAA297092), the Guangxi project of improving ability for young and middle-aged teachers (No. 2018KY0505), the Guangxi key research and development program (No. AB22080068), the Found of Guangxi Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Alliance (No. 202213), and the Science and Technology Development Fund of Guangxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences (No. 2021YT037).
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All authors contributed to the study’s conception and design. Siyue Sun and Tieguang He designed the study. Siyue Sun performed the analysis and prepared the manuscript. Xingbiao Chu and Shufang Song assembled input data, implemented the model, and analyzed output data and results. Wenbin Dong and Caihui Wei conducted data collection and preliminary analysis. Zhongyi Li and Tieguang He revised the original manuscript. Siyue Sun validated the modeling results and discussed the results and implications. All authors participated in the writing of the manuscript.
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Sun, S., Chu, X., Dong, W. et al. Research on the interaction of “tourism development-land use-landscape pattern” since the 1990s in a small karst basin, China. Environ Sci Pollut Res 30, 46869–46883 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-023-25646-w
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