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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Hu, Dongxue
• Tang, Lina
• Qiu, Quanyi
• Shi, Longyu
• Shao, Guofan

Titel

Decadal temporal changes in landscapes and their driving forces for West-bank Economic Zone of Taiwan Straits

Ist Teil von

• Sheng tai xue bao, 2015-09, Vol.35 (18)

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

Quelle

EZB Free E-Journals

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The economic zone on the western bank of Taiwan Straits represents one of the key development regions for the future under the national development strategic planning.The sustainable development of the economic zone requires the improved our understanding of the current status of ecological landscapes and their changes in the past within the region.The target of this study covers 143440 km2 in area,including 9 cities in Fujian Province,3 cities in Guangdong Provinces,and 1 city in Zhejiang Province within the economic zone on the western bank of Taiwan Straits.We quantified landscape pattern metrics with land use and cover( LUC) data derived from the Landsat TM imagery acquired in 2000 and 2005 and from HJ-1 imagery acquired in 2010.We computed changes in landscape pattern and performed statistical analysis with the SPSS program to determine driving forces for the landscape dynamics.Our results indicated that the area of agriculture land,wetland,and grassland was decreasing due to the expansion of urban land