Land use change and its ecological effect in Qian'an County of Jilin Province |
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| Authors: | ZHONG Linsheng ZHANG Yongmin ZHAO Shidong Karl E Ryavec |
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| Institution: | 1. Inst. of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, Beijing 100101, China|
2. Department of Geography, University of Minnesota, MN55455, USA |
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| Abstract: | Based on GIS and statistical methods, with the help of searching historical literatures and calculating the landscape indices, the land use changes of Qian'an County in both spatial and temporal aspects from 1945 to 1996 has been analyzed in this paper. And the driving forces of land use changes and their ecological effects are discussed too. The main findings of this study are as follows: (1) Land use changed greatly in Qian'an during 1945-1996, characterized by a decrease in grassland, wetland and water bodies, and an increase in cultivated land, saline-alkali land, and the land for housing and other construction purposes. Grassland decreased by 175,828.66 ha, and cultivated land increased by 102,137.23 ha over the half century. Accordingly, the main landscape type changed from a steppe landscape to a managed agricultural ecosystem. (2) Results of correlation analysis show that the land use change in the study area was mainly driven by the socioeconomic factors. (3) The ecological effects of land use change in the area are characterized by serious salinization, degression of soil fertility and the weakening of landscape suitability. |
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| Keywords: | land use change ecological effect land degradation Qian&rsquo an County |
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