Applied research of landscape ecology in desertification monitoring and assessment

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Li, Feng | Sun, Si-heng

Affiliations: Academy of Forest Inventory and Planning/China National Desertification Monitoring Center, State Forestry Administration, Beijing 100714, China

Abstract: A preliminary research on landscape ecology in desertification monitoring and assessment was reported. Also, this paper laid stress on the study of landscape diversity, dominance, evenness and Markov Matrix model and their respective landscape ecological meanings in the desertification monitoring and assessment. Concurrently, it took Shazhuyu Experimental Area, Qinghai Province as a specific case study.

Keywords: landscape ecology, Shazhuyu Experimental Area, monitoring and assessment, desertification

Journal: Journal of Environmental Sciences, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 349-354, 2000