Modeling the scenic beauty of autumnal tree color at the landscape scale: A case study of Purple Mountain, Nanjing, China

Wang, Zi; Li, Mingyang; Xiu-hong, Zhang; Song, Liyi

doi:10.1016/j.ufug.2019.126526

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“…Therefore, it is of interest to further investigate the dynamics of microbial interaction during the succession process. Compared to either pure conifer or broadleaved forest, the mixed litters in mixed forest can promote the microbial degradation, resulting in an increase of SOC (Wang, Li, et al, 2020). In addition, the secondary plants during the succession grow faster and consume more nutrients including SOC (Lajtha, 2020), which might contribute to the lower SOC in pure Liquidambar forest.…”

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The response of the soil bacterial community and function to forest succession caused by forest disease

Liu

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Functional Ecology

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1. Forest succession is a key driver of plant communities and understanding succession is central to forest restoration. Currently, the information on the response of the microbial community to the forest succession process, however, is limited. In the present study, we investigated the dynamics of the soil bacterial community in three forest types undergoing succession caused by pine wilt disease, representing the initial pine forest, gradual mixed pine and broadleaved forest, and eventual broadleaved forest, using Illumina MiSeq coupled with Functional Annotation of Prokaryotic Taxa (FAPROTAX) analysis. 2. The results showed that the soil pH, contents of soil organic carbon (SOC) and soil total nitrogen (TN) increased after the occurrence of initial succession and differed among the forest sites. The mixed pine forest had significantly higher bacteria biomass (p < 0.05), whereas, the total microbial biomass did not differ during the succession. The bacterial community diversity and richness increased significantly following the succession process (p < 0.05). Proteobacteria, Actinobacteria, Acidobacteria and Bacteroidetes were the dominant phyla across the succession, in which the abundance of Bacteroidetes significantly increased (p < 0.05), whereas, Planctomycetes, WPS-2 and Burkholder decreased in abundance after succession occurred (p < 0.05). 3. The three forests formed distinct bacterial community structures during the succession (p < 0.05), whereas, only two functional structures were clustered, in which the mixed and pure broadleaved forest did not differ. The dominant functional groups involved in the C cycle in the initial pure pine forest were replaced gradually by the groups involved in N and S cycles following the subsequent succession. The soil pH, soil TN and SOC were the most important factors affecting the bacterial community and functional structures during the succession. 4. These results indicate that the bacterial community and function shift drastically in the early stages of succession, which reflects the changes in ecological environment caused by succession. The findings provide useful information to better understand the response of microbes to natural forest disturbance and highlight the importance of microbes during forest succession. | 2549 Functional Ecology QU et al.

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The response of the soil bacterial community and function to forest succession caused by forest disease

Liu

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Functional Ecology

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“…Furthermore, studies in this field can be approached from a physical, experimental and cultural point of view [36], from the point of view of visual perceptions of the landscape based on photography [37], the anthropogenic point of view [34] or geotourism [3], among others. This field also contains a multiplicity of territories under analysis, from islands [38][39][40], forests [41,42] or mountains [43,44] to cities [45,46], valleys [47,48] and lakes [49,50].…”

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Landscape and Tourism: Evolution of Research Topics

García

Chico

Sánchez

2020

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Tourism and landscape are broad and complex scientific research fields, as is the synergy between them has given rise to a volume of articles diverse in nature, subject matter and methodology. These difficulties mean that, at present, there is no complete theoretical framework to support this tourism and landscape research, nor complete knowledge of its structure and organization. This motivates the present work, which constitutes the first attempt at mapping this research topic by applying bibliometric techniques using VOSviewer and Science Mapping Analysis Software Tool (SciMAT) software. A total of 3340 articles from journals indexed in Web of Science were analyzed. The results obtained confirm that interest in the study of these concepts has been growing, especially in the last decade. The main contribution of this work lies in the identification of work themes that were basic to the construction of the field but that are currently in decline, such as “cultural heritage” and other themes important to the field that should continue to be dealt with, such as “national parks” or “geotourism”. The transversal nature of sustainability that appears in the network of keywords related to currently emerging themes, such as “planning” and “environment”, is also highlighted and reinforced.

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“…Therefore, we extracted factors from the plant community landscape to establish a quantitative model between landscape factors and SBE values. According to characteristics of the samples, previous research and the advice from experts on plant landscapes [ 29 – 31 ], the factors used to evaluate plant community landscapes in urban park green spaces in winter were the following: morphological characteristics, tree species diversity, vertical level richness, overall coordination, canopy, spatial characteristics, color composition, evergreen tree species ratio, ground cover rate and plant growth. The participants needed to evaluate 10 landscape factors in each photograph ( Table 1 ).…”

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“…The original SBE method of different groups might contain distinct origins and metrics, potentially affecting the accuracy of the results of the evaluations. Thus, we processed the results of the evaluation to eliminate differences among the different participants and standardize the scenic beauty values [ 12 , 31 ]. The following method was used: where Z ij is the standardization value of the j th participants of the i th photograph, R ij is the SBE score of the j th participants of the i th photograph, j is the mean value of the SBE score of the j th participants of all 29 photographs, S j is the standard deviation of the SBE scores of the j th participants of all 29 photographs and Z i is the standardized score of the i th plant community landscape.…”

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“…The original SBE method of different groups PLOS ONE might contain distinct origins and metrics, potentially affecting the accuracy of the results of the evaluations. Thus, we processed the results of the evaluation to eliminate differences among the different participants and standardize the scenic beauty values [12,31]. The following method was used:…”

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Evaluation of the winter landscape of the plant community of urban park green spaces based on the scenic beauty esitimation method in Yangzhou, China

Shen

Ding

2020

PLoS ONE

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Plant landscapes are fundamental components of the green space of urban parks and are often dynamic, changing throughout the year. Winter is a season with poor plant landscape effects in urban park green spaces. However, plant community landscapes in the winter in urban park green spaces could be further optimized. Here, we conducted scenic beauty estimation (SBE) of the landscape factors in 29 winter plant communities in four typical urban parks in Yangzhou, China using partial correlation analysis and multiple linear regression. The standard SBE values of the 29 plant communities ranged from-0.981 to 1.209. Complex plant community landscapes with abundant plant species, beautiful plant community morphology and obvious seasonal changes generally received high scenic beauty scores. Six landscape factors, including the diversity of plant species, the proportion of evergreen tree species, the morphological characteristics of plants, the ground cover rate, the overall sense of harmony and the color composition, greatly influenced the scenic beauty of the plant landscape in the winter. Generally, the results of this study provide insight into how the plant community landscape in urban parks could be improved.

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Modeling the scenic beauty of autumnal tree color at the landscape scale: A case study of Purple Mountain, Nanjing, China

Cited by 28 publications

References 36 publications

The response of the soil bacterial community and function to forest succession caused by forest disease

The response of the soil bacterial community and function to forest succession caused by forest disease

Landscape and Tourism: Evolution of Research Topics

Evaluation of the winter landscape of the plant community of urban park green spaces based on the scenic beauty esitimation method in Yangzhou, China

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