Abstract:The Yellow River Delta has very high ecological value. It is of great significance to study landscape pattern and ecological risk for promoting high quality development of the Yellow River Delta. Based on land use data in the Yellow River Delta in 1980, 2000 and 2020, characteristics of land transfer and landscape pattern have been analyzed, and an ecological risk assessment model has been constructed to reveal spatio-temporal evolution and spatial correlation of ecological risks. It is showed that: arable land is the main type of land in the Yellow River Delta, and accounts for more than 60%. From 1980 to 2020, land transfer are mainly construction using land, water area and unused land. From 1980 to 2020, the number of landscape patches, the density of landscape patches, the largest landscape patch index, the landscape shape index, and the Shannon diversity index of the Yellow River Delta are in a downward trend, and the overall area tends to be simplified and clustered. The high risk areas and high risk areas in the Yellow River Delta are mainly distributed around the Bohai Sea.