The relationship between water quality and the landscape pattern metrics was more significant during the rainy season than after the rainy season.
In this paper, we compared the landscape pattern between three hydrologic years with early dry season (EY) and three normal hydrologic years (NY) of each lake by remote sensing technology, to reveal the effect of early dry season on landscape pattern.
In order to explore the relationship between landscape patterns and ecological processes, the concept of "source" and "sink" was introduced into the landscape pattern analysis.
We found two study areas where the soil pattern was coherent with land use intensity, and detected a tendency that human influence makes the landscape pattern in uplands more homogeneous and in lowlands more heterogeneous, whereas the similarity between landscape patterns in lowlands and uplands is increasing due to human influence.
Using GIS tools, the landscape pattern index method was proposed to compare the landscape patterns of Baiyangdian Watershed in 2002 and 2007, determine the transformation rules of landscape essential factors, and analyze the correlation between the changes of landscape patterns and water quality in Baiyangdian Watershed.
Introducing the measurement of the difference between the preferred spatial patterns and the landscape patterns occurring in a given landscape is a fundamental conceptual development represented in the IFS.
Once you raise yourself above the landscape, patterns start emerging".
The relationship between landscape pattern and the function of nutrient reduction in the natural reed marsh of Liaohe Delta is studied with the help of some landscape metrics.
Selecting meaningful metrics to describe landscapes is difficult due to our limited understanding of the links between landscape pattern and ecological process, the numerous indices available and the interaction between the spatial characteristics of the system and metric behaviour.
The IFS links preferences to land cover spatial patterns as it uses quantitative indicators for gauging differences between the preferred landscape patterns by users, for a certain activity related to an amenity function (e.g. hunting), and the land cover patterns of a given rural area (either at the present or from scenarios developed for the future).
