Spatio-temporal change of grassland distribution in central Inner Mongolia in China

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10.2991/icseee-16.2016.165How to use a DOI?

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grassland; Inner Mongolia; landscape pattern; spatio-temporal change

Abstract

Grassland is one of most important ecosystems in northern China and is threatened by strong land use pressure and poor protection. We selected central Inner Mongolia as a study area to explore spatio-temporal change of grassland distribution in the north of China. Obtaining land use data from remote sensing maps, we classified it into six types: forest, grassland, wetland, farmland, artificial surface and others. Then grassland was assigned into four secondary categories: meadow, steppe, tussock and herbaceous greenbelt. On the base of RS and GIS, we made an analysis of grassland distribution from 2000 to 2010. Result shows: 1) during this period, distribution of grassland decreased 1472.68km2, accounting for 0.45%; 2) steppes took up the biggest percentage of total area, which experienced lighter decline compared with herbaceous greenbelts; 3) differing from the total trend, tussock suffered little degradation while meadows expended to some degree.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Xia Meng
AU  - Luo Guo
PY  - 2016/12
DA  - 2016/12
TI  - Spatio-temporal change of grassland distribution in central Inner Mongolia in China
BT  - Proceedings of the 2016 5th International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Environment Engineering (ICSEEE 2016)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 922
EP  - 925
SN  - 2352-5401
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icseee-16.2016.165
DO  - 10.2991/icseee-16.2016.165
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