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Spatial distribution of human activities and their influences on landscape patterns in Daqingshan Nature Reserve.

SUN Ya-hui1, MENG Li2, TIAN Lü3, LI Guo-liang3, LI Yue-hui4, SUN Jian-xin1   

  1. (1Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Silviculture and Conservation, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China; 2Survey and Planning Institute of State Forestry Administration, Beijing 100714, China; 3Inner Mongolia Institute of Forest Monitoring and Planning, Huhhot 010020, China; 4Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, China)
  • Online:2014-11-18 Published:2014-11-18

Abstract:

Based on forest inventory data and field survey information, and by using GIS spatial analysis technique and landscape indices, this paper studied the spatial distribution of three categories of human activities (settlement, roads, and other sources of disturbances) and their impacts on landscape patterns in three subdivided regions, i.e., the west, central and east regions of the Daqingshan Nature Reserve in Inner Mongolia. Results showed that the impacts of human activities were stronger in the east and west regions and weaker in the central region. Among the three subdivided regions, the landscape pattern in the west region was predominantly affected by other sources of disturbances, making the landscape patterns of coniferous forests, broadleaf forests and shrubs tended to be of aggregated distribution; the central region was mainly affected by roads, resulting in reduced landscape patch aggregation of broadleaf forests and shrubs; the east region was mostly affected by settlement, resulting in increased fragmentation of coniferous forests and broadleaf forests and apparent increases in landscape patch aggregation of shrubs and grasslands.