Habitat Quality Assessment with Changes of Landscape Pattern Using InVEST-HQ and Semivariogram Model in Durgapur Subdivision
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https://doi.org/10.55863/ijees.2025.0824Keywords:
Habitat Quality, Landscape pattern, Land Cover, SemivariogramAbstract
Habitat quality is immensely influenced by dynamic landscape patterns, especially in rapidly urbanized areas. Therefore, assessing the influence of changing landscape structure on habitat quality is inevitable. The study evaluated habitat quality using landscape metrics and land use and land cover data for 1991, 2011, and 2023. The study has used the habitat quality module of the Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Trade-offs (InVEST) model to get the habitat quality pattern in the study area and the Semivariogram model to delineate the spatial changing structure in habitat quality within the study period. The study has shown that the spatial orientation of habitat quality varies with the changes in landscape patterns, and spatial heterogeneity also increased due to urbanization. The expansion of human-modified areas and shortening of the natural area have dropped the average quality from 0.22 in 1991 to 0.18 in 2023 and restricted the north and northeast parts as higher quality zones within the study period.
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