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A study on the relationship between vegetation pattern and environment in the upstream of Minjiang River, China

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The vegetation pattern in the upstream of Minjiang River, and its relationship with environment factors, such as landscape position (elevation, slope, aspect), precipitation and temperature and soil are analyzed in this paper. The data used in this paper were based on the landscape map derived from 1994 TM imagery. The results were as follows: 1) dominant landscape types were forest, shrub land and grassland, which were very similar in terms of area ratio (32.87%, 31.85% and 28.44%, respectively); 2) the patch shape of conifer forest and mixed forest was complicated while that of broad-leaved forest and cultivated land was simple; 3) the fragmentation of conifer forest and mixed forest was serious in contrast with low fragmentation of broad-leaved forest and cultivated land; and 4) closed scrub and grassland had a high contagion and good connectivity while mixed forest had a lower contagion and bad connectivity. In addition, the vegetation distribution pattern of upstream of Minjiang River was closely related with elevation and temperature, but the relationship between vegetation and precipitation was not statistically significant.

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  1. College of Life Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875, China

    Li Chongwei, Lin Yong & Ge Jianping

  2. Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100093, China

    Liu Lijuan

  3. College of Urban and environment Sciences, Tianjing Normal University, Tianjin, 300384, China

    Li Chongwei

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Translated from Journal of Beijing Normal University (Natural Science), 2005,41(4) [译自: 北京师范大学学报(自然科学版), 2005,41(4)]

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Li, C., Lin, Y., Liu, L. et al. A study on the relationship between vegetation pattern and environment in the upstream of Minjiang River, China. Front. Biol. China 1, 187–194 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11515-006-0022-y

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