Landscape Dynamics in Hulunbuir Grassland of China

DOI

10.2991/rsete.2013.77How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Landscape Pattern, remote sensing, Hulunbuir Grassland

Abstract

Hulunbuir Grassland is one of the world famous steppe. Along with global climate change, the beautiful mosaic landscape of grassland-wetland-desert is getting unstable under huge demographic and economic growth pressures. From 2000 to 2010, the total area of water reduced by 396.52 km2 grassland by 234.71 km2 and forest 146.86 km2, whereas, the areas of construction land, desert, cropland and wetland increased by 462.59 km2, 189.43 km2, 99.33 km2 and 26.74 km2 respectively. The NP (Number of Patches) increased by 1161 and PD (Patch Density) by 0.02, while the MPS (Mean Patch Size) decreased by 2.24 km2 and LPI (Largest Patch Index) by 0.35. Moreover, SHDI (Shannon’s Diversity Index) and SHEI (Shannon’s Evenness Index) increased by 0.02 and 0.10. These results indicate obviously a process of grassland loss and fragmentation. Although many environmental protection efforts have been carried out from 2000, the degradation trend still can’t be hold back.

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© 2013, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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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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TY  - CONF
AU  - Wang Zhiliang
AU  - Wang Zongming
AU  - Zhang Bai
AU  - Lu Chunyan
AU  - Ren Chunying
PY  - 2013/08
DA  - 2013/08
TI  - Landscape Dynamics in Hulunbuir Grassland of China
BT  - Proceedings of the 2013 the International Conference on Remote Sensing, Environment and Transportation Engineering (RSETE 2013)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 314
EP  - 317
SN  - 1951-6851
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/rsete.2013.77
DO  - 10.2991/rsete.2013.77
ID  - Zhiliang2013/08
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