Title :
The Dynamics of Forest Landscape Pattern in Lushuihe on Changbai Mountain
Author :
Liu, Zhenggang ; Xie, Xiaokui ; Su, Dongkai ; Dai, Limin ; Wang, Xinchuang ; Qi, Guang
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Appl. Ecology, Chinese Acad. of Sci., CAS, Shenyang, China
Abstract :
Changbai Mountain is one of the most important area in northeast of China where large area of temperate forests distribute. Lushuihe Forestry Bureau, located in the center of the region, was selected as a study site. We calculated the areas of different forest landscapes and selected MPS and CONTAG landscape indexes to carry out landscape pattern analysis for Lushuihe from 1987 to 2003 based on forest inventory data and GIS. The results showed that forest landscape in Lushuihe during 1987-1995 was more fragmented than that during 1995-2003 as a result of different logging styles and forestry managements, especially after National Forest Conversation Program (NFCP) in 1998. But the forest ecosystem in Lushuihe is still vulnerable. How to keep the integrity of forest landscape should be taken more considerations in future ecosystem management in order to realize sustainable forestry.
Keywords :
ecology; forestry; CONTAG landscape indexes; Changbai Mountain; Lushuihe; MPS landscape index; ecosystem management; forest ecosystem; forest landscape pattern; forestry managements; logging; sustainable forestry; temperate forests; Content addressable storage; Ecosystems; Environmental factors; Forestry; Geographic Information Systems; Ocean temperature; Pattern analysis; Sea level; Spatial databases; Topology;
Conference_Titel :
Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering (iCBBE), 2010 4th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Chengdu
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4712-1
Electronic_ISBN :
2151-7614
DOI :
10.1109/ICBBE.2010.5515971
