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Impacts of road corridors on urban landscape pattern: a gradient analysis with changing grain size in Shanghai, China

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Urbanization is one of the most important driving forces for land use and land cover change. Quantifying urban landscape pattern and its change is fundamental for monitoring and assessing ecological and socioeconomic consequences of urbanization. As the largest city in the country, Shanghai is now the fastest growing city in China. Using land use data set of 2002 and combining gradient analysis with landscape metrics, we analyzed landscape pattern of Shanghai with increasing grain size to study the impacts of road corridors on urban landscape pattern. Landscape metrics were computed along a 51×9 km2 transect cutting across Shanghai with a moving window. The results showed that the urban landscape pattern of Shanghai was greatly changed when road corridors were merged with urban patches and the variation of patch density would alter when grain size changed. As a linear land use type, road corridors exhibited a different spatial signature comparing with other land use types and distinctive behavior with increasing grain size. Merging road and urban patches resulted in a sharp reduction in patch density, mainly caused by segmentation of roads corridors. The results suggested that grain size around 7.5 m might be optimal for urban landscape analysis. Landscape patch density is significantly correlated with road percent coverage and the most important effect of road corridors in urban landscape is increased habitat fragmentation.

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    Ming Zhu, Jianlong Li & Yamin Fan

  2. Department of Urban and Resources Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, P.R. China

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  3. Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, 210008, P.R. China

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Zhu, M., Xu, J., Jiang, N. et al. Impacts of road corridors on urban landscape pattern: a gradient analysis with changing grain size in Shanghai, China. Landscape Ecol 21, 723–734 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-005-5323-z

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