Abstract:With past and continued loss of secondary forests in urban areas, this paper aims to assess the current distribution of secondary forests and evaluate the ecological values of secondary forests in terms of patch sizes, plant density and biodiversity values by using the analysis tools of GIS and FRAGSTATS. According to the analysis in this paper, over 1782 ha of secondary forest cover in Singapore has been lost due to the urbanization, such as residential and infrastructure development, in the past decade. It i… Show more
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