Forest Landscape Change and Preliminary Study on Its Driving Forces in Ślęża Landscape Park (Southwestern Poland) in 1883–2013

Krajewski, Piotr; Solecka, Iga; Mrozik, Karol

doi:10.3390/su10124526

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“…Accordingly, understanding change processes of landscape and influencing factors, namely biophysical and anthropogenic, has become a priority for researchers, managers, and decision makers [4][5][6][7]. In this regard, population growth as an anthropogenic factor is the main reason for land use/land cover (LULC) and landscape change on a global scale [8][9][10].…”

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Landscape Management through Change Processes Monitoring in Iran

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The presented research investigated and predicted landscape change processes (LCPs) in the Talar watershed, northern Iran. The Land Change Modeler was used for change analysis, transition potential modeling, and prediction of land use/land cover (LULC) map. The evaluation of projected LULC map was performed by comparing the real and predicted LULC maps for the reference year, 2014. Landscape metrics and change processes were investigated for the period 1989–2014 and for exploring the situation in 2030. Results illustrated that the increase in agricultural land and residential areas took place at the expense of forest and rangeland. The distance from forests was the most sensitive parameter for modeling the transition potentials. The modelling of the LULC change projected the number of patches, the landscape shape index, interspersion and juxtaposition index, and edge density, Euclidean nearest-neighbor distance, and area-weighted shape index will amount to 65.3, 7.63, 20.1, 8.77, −1.35, and 0.61% as compared to 2014, respectively. Our findings indicated that the type of change processes that occurred was not entirely the same in 1989–2000 and 2000–2014. In addition, change processes in the creation of dry farming, orchard, and residential classes, attrition of forest and rangeland categories, and dissection in irrigated farming are projected. The dynamics of landscape metrics and change processes combined in one analytical framework can facilitate understanding and detection of the relationship between ecological processes and landscape pattern. The finding of current research will provide a roadmap for improved LULC management and planning in the Talar watershed, southern coast of the Caspian Sea.

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“…Ayre et al [32] developed procedures that incorporate landscape features into the environmental management process and present a conceptual foundation for incorporating landscape ecology into the risk assessment process. Krajewski et al [33] based on the map data of 140 years (1863-2013), using a landscape change index to analyze driving forces of forest resources change and forest transformation in a landscape park, and provided a theoretical and practical guidance for the protection of regional forest landscape resources. This kind of research also showed that the landscape change index was used as a way of monitoring landscape changes and therefore could be used for landscape ecological risk assessment [34].…”

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Research on Land Use Changes and Ecological Risk Assessment in Yongjiang River Basin in Zhejiang Province, China

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Gong

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Studying land use changes and ecological risk assessment in Yongjiang River Basin in Zhejiang Province, China, provides theoretical references for optimal configuration of land resources and maintaining stability of ecosystems. Given impacts of land use changes on landscape patterns in the Yongjiang River Basin, ecological risk assessment indexes were constructed and used to analyze temporal and spatial variation characteristics of ecological risk within different periods. Results show that (1) the construction land area was increased quickly, while the cultivated area decreased sharply. A prominent characteristic of land use changes was manifested by transforming cultivated area and forestland into construction land. The utilized degree of the land increased continuously. Spatially, the land utilized degree in northern regions was higher than that in southern regions and the degree in eastern regions was higher than that in western regions. (2) The ecological risk in the Yongjiang River Basin was intensified and the area of high ecological risk was expanded by 893.96 km2. Regions with low and relatively low ecological risks concentrated in western and southern regions of the Basin, whereas regions with high ecological risks were mainly in northern and eastern regions. Landscapes in cities and towns at a high economic development level are highly sensitive to human activities. (3) Transformation of ecological risk is complicated. Land area with the ecological risk changing from a low level to a high level was 4.15 times that with the ecological risk changing from a high level to a low level. There were 15 transformation directions among different ecological risk regions.

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“…It cannot explain the quality of population urbanization. The population is an important driving force to accelerate urban landscape change, especially to expand built-up areas [14]. At present, the impact of the household registration system on population urbanization cannot be ignored.…”

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“…With the continuous spread of cities, high-quality arable land is being lost and fragmentation landscape patterns are increasing, thereby posing threats to sustainable development and regional food security [13]. The change in population size and land use policy in urbanization are important driving forces for the forest spatial changing pattern, which affects the changes in the regional landscape [14]. Hence, urban development must focus on the use of comprehensive resources, handle the coordinated development of population and land urbanization properly, promote a new type of urbanization, and realize the sustainability of urban modernization [15].…”

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“…The expansion of urban land will convert a large amount of agricultural population into the urban population, thereby leading the government to conduct city-building campaigns that cause government dominating urbanization [18,24]. The increase in population density will promote urban construction, for example, by increasing urban built-up areas, increasing road area, and improving public facilities, all of which require land resources and regional landscape changes [14]. The population and land use has a important impact on urban form that is closely related to urban planning [3].…”

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Coupling Coordination Evaluation between Population and Land Urbanization in Ha-Chang Urban Agglomeration

Han

2020

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As the major form of urbanization, urban agglomeration integrates urban resources, adjusts industrial structure, narrows the gap between urban and rural areas, enhances urban function, strengthens urban competitiveness, and promotes the strategy of regional sustainable development. Based on the panel data of 10 cities in Ha-Chang urban agglomeration from 2000 to 2014, this paper establishes an evaluation index-system of population and land urbanization quality level, and analyzes the coordination degree, spatial heterogeneity, and spatiotemporal evolution of urbanization, through using the methods of range standardization, entropy weight model, and coupling coordination models. Results show that the quality of population and land urbanization was increasing gradually during the study period. However, the coordination degree between population and land urbanization rate is decreasing. The comprehensive level of population and land urbanization increasing yearly, from low-level coupling coordination reverse to high-level coupling stage. The quality differences between the population and land urbanization of the ten cities of the Ha-Chang urban agglomeration are significant. The radiation function of large-sized cities and the regulation of medium-sized cities are not strong, and the coordination degree of small-sized cities is low. In view of the coordinated status of the Ha-Chang urban agglomeration, differently size cities should propose corresponding urbanization development strategies to enhance the main function of the urban agglomeration.

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Forest Landscape Change and Preliminary Study on Its Driving Forces in Ślęża Landscape Park (Southwestern Poland) in 1883–2013

Cited by 43 publications

References 56 publications

Landscape Management through Change Processes Monitoring in Iran

Landscape Management through Change Processes Monitoring in Iran

Research on Land Use Changes and Ecological Risk Assessment in Yongjiang River Basin in Zhejiang Province, China

Coupling Coordination Evaluation between Population and Land Urbanization in Ha-Chang Urban Agglomeration

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