It is important for the future regional land use planning, landscape pattern
optimization, ecological city construction and sustainable development to study the
spatial-temporal change characteristics of regional land use landscape pattern and
its ecological security analysis. Based on GIS spatial analysis techniques, landscape
ecology theory and the land use data of eight periods from 1980 to 2020, this study
analyzed the land use change, landscape pattern and ecological security change of
Chongqing in recent 40 years. The results showed as follows: (1)The land use/cover
change was obvious in Chongqing; the cultivated land landscape was dominant,
accounting for 45.67% of the total land use area, but the dominance of cultivated
land landscape decreased gradually; Affected by the conversion of farmland to forest,
woodland occupies 40.98% of the total land use area; Meanwhile, the landscape
transformation changes mainly focus on the mutual transformation of cultivated
land, forest land and grassland, and the source of construction land is cultivated
land Transfer in the main. (2) The overall change rate of land use in Chongqing was
gradually accelerated from 0.65% to 1.20%, and the degree of land use was increased
from 248.09 in 1980 to 250.82 in 2020, which indicated that the anti-interference
ability of the ecosystem is declining. (3) The change of landscape pattern in Chongqing
was obvious, In the process of urbanization, the degree of landscape fragmentation
increases, and the distribution of landscape patches is uneven and complex. (4)
The ecological security degree of Chongqing decreased from 0.57 in 1980 to 0.52 in
2020, which indicated that the ecological vulnerability of Chongqing was gradually
deepened.