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The global population and social economy are highly concentrated in the coastal zone. This region is being subjected to rapid human development. The coastal zone is located at the intersection of marine and terrestrial ecosystems in an ecologically complex environment. Hence, its original landscape patterns have undergone substantial alterations. The present study used a comprehensive framework to evaluate landscape ecological condition and sensitivity indices based on landscape composition, configuration, and function in the coastal zone of the Shandong Peninsula over the past 30 years. Eight evaluation units between 100 m and 10 km were employed to understand the Vulnerability scale effects of landscape ecological condition and sensitivity along the scale change. Between 1990 and 2020, the ecological condition and sensitivity of the coastal zone of Shandong Peninsula initially decreased and then gradually increased. The total evaluation demonstrated a trend of initial decrease and subsequent increase with evaluation scale. It was determined that 1 km was the optimal scale for landscape ecological sensitivity evaluation. The present research indicated that the evaluation of landscape ecological condition and sensitivity provides a technical reference for optimizing spatial development patterns in the coastal zones of Shandong Peninsula as well as other regions.
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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (42071116) and the Basic Scientific Fund for National Public Research Institutes of China (2021S02). We thank NASA and USGS for the open source LANDSAT data. We also thank Ministry of Natural Resources of China for the open source GlobeLand data.
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Zhang, Z., Chi, Y., Liu, D. et al. Spatiotemporal pattern of landscape ecological sensitivity in coastal zone in the last 30 years: an empirical study of Shandong Peninsula, China. J Coast Conserv 26, 55 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11852-022-00903-1
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