Proceedings of the 2016 5th International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Environment Engineering (ICSEEE 2016)

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

Authors
Xia Meng, Luo Guo
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Xia Meng
Available Online December 2016.
DOI
10.2991/icseee-16.2016.165How to use a DOI?
Keywords
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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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2016 5th International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Environment Engineering (ICSEEE 2016)
Series
Advances in Engineering Research
Publication Date
December 2016
ISBN
978-94-6252-278-7
ISSN
2352-5401
DOI
10.2991/icseee-16.2016.165How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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