On the basic of the land use map of Bohai Sea coastal zone area in 1995

2000

2005 and 2008 from remote sensing images such as TM

CBERS

this paper analyses the land use dynamic and its landscape response of Bohai Sea coastal zone area in recent thirteen years by method of GIS and landscape ecology. The conclusions are got as follows. （1） The maximum annual land use change rate in the Bohai Sea coastal zone area has occurred in the period from 2000 to 2005

up to 0.40%; the second one in the period from 2005 to 2008; the minimum one in the period from 1995 to 2000. （2） The land use dynamic change in Bohai Sea coastal zone area showed the big regional differences

and the most obvious changes were found at the lower reaches of Liaohe Plain

Haihe Plain and Yellow River Delta. （3） In the monitoring period

the expansion of settlement is the major land use dynamic type

and changing from sea into land （reclaiming land from the sea） is another important change type of land use in this region. （4） In the Bohai Sea coastal zone area

the landscape diversity and evenness was decreasing while the landscape dominance was increasing

due to the integration of some kinds of land use type （such as unused land and water land） as well as the expansion of dominating land use type.