Analysis of spatial heterogeneity based on fractal dimension on Nanjing

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10.2991/rsete.2013.36How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Fractal dimension, spatial heterogeneity, semi-variogram analysis, road-region vegetation

Abstract

Spatial heterogeneity, by applying the index of fractal dimension, can quantitatively analyze the ecology function and quality of different landscapes in different scales. In this paper, the road-region vegetation ecosystem of Nanjing urban roads was studied by means of semi-variogram analysis, fractal dimension calculation and field survey. The rationality of vegetation arrangement, spatial heterogeneity and ecosystem stability of vegetation were analyzed comparatively in different road-region and slope directions. The result showed that fractal dimension could accurately and quantitatively value the spatial heterogeneity and ecosystem stability of road-region ecosystem. Under different conditions, the road-region with natural vegetation and less artificial disturbance, in southern slopes, and the wide separating vegetation zones were of high spatial heterogeneity, high ecosystem stability and low fractal dimension.

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© 2013, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Meisi Xie
AU  - Chen Zhao
PY  - 2013/08
DA  - 2013/08
TI  - Analysis of spatial heterogeneity based on fractal dimension on Nanjing
BT  - Proceedings of the 2013 the International Conference on Remote Sensing, Environment and Transportation Engineering (RSETE 2013)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 143
EP  - 147
SN  - 1951-6851
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/rsete.2013.36
DO  - 10.2991/rsete.2013.36
ID  - Xie2013/08
ER  -