Relationship between urban green-land landscape patterns and air pollution in the central district of Yichang city

Abstract

Abstract: In this paper,four types of landscape structures and their green-land landscape patterns,including the landscapes of dominant green-land patch pattern,even green-land patch pattern,dominant wooded corridor pattern and building or concrete covering pattern (control) in the central district of Yichang city in Hubei Province,were analyzed respectively on the basis of landscape ecological theory.The atmospheric noise and the contents of SO₂,NO_x and total suspension particle (TSP) of the landscapes were monitored respectively by comparative method.The results showed that the landscape of building or concrete covering pattern (control) was mostly composed of woodless corridors and building or concrete covering patches with the tiptop green-land fragmentation index (18.125 3 ind穐m^-2) and only had 1.00% green-land coverage,which had a relatively higher atmospheric noise and the highest TSP content in the landscape.The landscape of dominant green-land patch pattern had the highest green-land coverage (up to 43.59%) dominated by great green-land patches and the least fragmentation index (0.453 9 ind穐m^-2),in which,the atmospheric noise weakened by 28.12% and the TSP content reduced significantly by 86.42%,comparing to the control.The landscape of even green-land patch pattern had the relatively lower green-land coverage (11.34%) and fragmentation index (2.751 1 ind穐m^-2),which was mainly composed of the middle or small green-land patches and wooded corridors with a regular distribution.In the landscape,the TSP content reduced obviously by 46.62% of the control,while the effect of dust retention was only 53.95% of that in the landscape of dominant green-land patch pattern.In the landscape of dominant wooded corridor pattern,which was a traffic center and turned into a main pollution resource in the city,there were a relatively higher green-land fragmentation index (6.870 0 ind穐m^-2) and the highest wooded corridor density (0.844 3 hm穐m^-2) with only 6.13% green-land coverage,and the atmospheric noise and the TSP and NO_x content increased by 21.47%,5.08% and 9.06%,respectively,comparing to control.It was obvious that the greater the average area of the green-land patch and the lower the fragmentation index of green-land patches,the more effective the green-land on purifying air pollution.

Key words: Urban green-land system, Landscape structure, Spatial pattern, Environmental monitoring, Air pollution

CLC Number:

Q149

SHAO Tianyi, ZHOU Zhixiang, WANG Pengcheng, TANG Wanpeng, LIU Xuequan, HU Xingyi . Relationship between urban green-land landscape patterns and air pollution in the central district of Yichang city[J]. Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology, 2004, (4): 691-696.

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