Landscape pattern evolution along terrain gradient in Fuzhou City, Fujian Province, China

doi:10.13287/j.1001-9332.201812.010

Abstract

Abstract: Terrain is an important factor in land landscape pattern change. To reveal the spatial and temporal characteristics and variation of landscape pattern along a terrain gradient, we used three remote sensing images and digital elevation model (DEM) data of Fuzhou in 1995, 2005 and 2015 to investigate the topographic gradient effect of landscape pattern and the cause of formation based on terrain index, land use distribution index, geo-informatics map analysis and landscape index. The results showed that forestland was mainly distributed in middle-low, middle-high and higher level terrain, while farmland, water body, construction land and unused lands were mainly distributed in the low rank terrain. From 1995 to 2015, the area of forestland, farmland, and unused land in Fuzhou decreased, while that of construction land and water body increased. The change of landscape type was stable, which was mainly distributed in middle-low, middle-high, and high grade terrain gradient region. In addition, landscape pattern changes were obvious across the terrain gra-dient. The landscape type of low terrain area mainly shifted to the construction land, but farmland and forestland had an alternation change in the middle-low and middle-high terrain area. The characteristics of landscape pattern fragmentation, landscape heterogeneity and landscape diversity in the study area had been increasing year by year, but they had decreased with the elevation of terrain.

CHEN Zhu, HUANG Ya-bing, ZHU Zhi-peng, ZHENG Qi-quan, QUE Chen-xi, DONG Jian-wen. Landscape pattern evolution along terrain gradient in Fuzhou City, Fujian Province, China[J]. Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology, 2018, 29(12): 4135-4144.

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