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

fYear

2010

fDate

18-20 June 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering (iCBBE), 2010 4th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Chengdu

ISSN

2151-7614

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4712-1

Electronic_ISBN

2151-7614

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICBBE.2010.5515971

Filename

5515971