[Dynamic changes of landscape pattern during desertification in Duolun County of Inner Mongolia]

Ying Yong Sheng Tai Xue Bao. 2007 Nov;18(11):2520-5.
[Article in Chinese]

Abstract

By using landscape analyzing software Fragstats 3.3 and the interpretation results of remote-sensing images of 1960, 1975, 1987, 1995, 2000 and 2005, this paper analyzed the dynamic changes of landscape pattern during the desertification in Duolun County of Inner Mongolia in 1960-2005. The results showed that in 1960-1995, the desertification area appeared a tendency of increasing first and decreasing then, with a total increase of 212.7 km2. The numbers of desertification landscape patches decreased after an initial increase, landscape diversity and evenness increased, and the shapes of light-, moderate-, and heavy desertification patches tended to be simplex. From 1995 to 2005, the numbers of desertification patches increased greatly, landscape diversity and evenness decreased, and the shapes of light-, moderate-, and heavy desertification patches tended to be complex. Since 1960, the shapes of severe desertification patches had been inclined to complication. In the study period, the whole desertification landscape showed a trend of integrity-broken-integrity-broken, and the broken degree of the patch types of desertification landscape was gradually from light down to severe.

Publication types

  • English Abstract
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • China
  • Conservation of Natural Resources*
  • Environmental Monitoring / methods*
  • Models, Theoretical
  • Plant Development*
  • Poaceae / growth & development
  • Satellite Communications