Changes of wetland landscape patterns in Dadu River catchment from 1985 to 2000, China

doi:10.1007/s11707-012-0312-4

Front Earth Sci

2012, Vol. 6

Issue (3) : 237-249 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11707-012-0312-4

RESEARCH ARTICLE

Changes of wetland landscape patterns in Dadu River catchment from 1985 to 2000, China

Laibin HUANG¹, Junhong BAI¹(

), Denghua YAN², Bin CHEN¹, Rong XIAO¹, Haifeng GAO¹

1. State Key Laboratory of Water Environment Simulation, School of Environment, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China; 2. China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research, Beijing 100044, China

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Abstract

Based on the interpretation and vector processing of remote sensing images in 1985 and 2000, the spatial changes of wetland landscape patterns in Dadu River catchment in the last two decades were studied using spatial analysis method. Supported by Apack software, the indices of wetland landscape pattern were calculated, and the information entropy (IE) was also introduced to show the changes of wetland landscape information. Results showed that wetland landscape in this region was characteristic of patch-corridor-matrix configuration and dominantly consisted of natural wetlands. Landscape patterns changed a little with low fragment and showed concentrated distribution with partial scattered distribution during the period from 1985 to 2000. The values of patch density and convergence index kept stable, and the values of diversity, evenness indices and IE showed a slight decrease, while dominance and fractal dimension indices were increased. All types of wetland landscapes had higher adjacency probabilities with grassland landscape in 1985 and 2000, and there was extremely weak hydrological link and large spatial gap among river, glacier, reservoir and pond wetlands due to low adjacency matrix values. Since their cumulative contribution exceeded 81% through the PCA analysis, the agriculture activities would be the main driving force to the landscape changes during the past 15 years.

Keywords wetland landscape spatial pattern landscape indices wetland management Dadu River catchment

Corresponding Author(s): BAI Junhong,Email:junhongbai@163.com

Issue Date: 05 September 2012

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Laibin HUANG,Junhong BAI,Denghua YAN, et al. Changes of wetland landscape patterns in Dadu River catchment from 1985 to 2000, China[J]. Front Earth Sci, 2012, 6(3): 237-249.

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Tab.1 Classification of wetlands and non-wetlands in the Dadu River catchment

Fig.1 Landscape types in Dadu River catchment in 1985 and 2000

Fig.2 Indices of wetland landscape pattern at the class level in 1985 and 2000.
LW= lake wetland; RPW= reservoir and pond wetland; MW= marsh wetland; RW= river wetland; GW= glacier wetland; = Patch density; = Fractal dimension; = Internal habitat fragmentation index

Tab.2 Structures of wetland landscapes in 1985 and 2000

Tab.3 Wetland landscape pattern indices at the landscape level in 1985 and 2000

Tab.4 Adjacency matrix probabilities between wetlands and non-wetlands in 1985 (unit: %)

Tab.5 Adjacency matrix probabilities between wetlands and non-wetlands in 2000 (unit: %)

Fig.3 Conversions between wetland and non-wetland landscapes from 1985 to 2000 ((a) lake wetland, (b) river wetland, (c) marsh wetland)

Tab.6 Transferring matrix among different wetland landscape types from 1985 to 2000 (unit: hm)

Tab.7 Changes in total area of wetland and non-wetland landscapes from 1985 to 2000

Tab.8 Information probability of the wetland landscapes changes in Dadu River catchement

Fig.4 Spatial change in the centroid of marsh wetland landscape in Dadu River catchment during the period from 1985 to 2000

Tab.9 Driving forces of the wetland landscapes changes in Dadu River catchment

Tab.10 Principal component analysis for driving factors of wetland landscape pattern

Tab.11 Rotated component matrix of three principal components

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