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cje ›› 2005, Vol. ›› Issue (12): 1392-1396.

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Monitoring of vegetation degradation in typical grassland with grassland health index

ZHANG Jian1,2, LI Guicai1,3, LIU Xianhua1, HAN Xingguo 1   

  1. 1. Laboratory of Quantitative Vegetation Ecology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China;
    2. Department of Plant Biology, Arizona State University, AZ 85287, USA;
    3. National Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Information Science, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
  • Received:2003-11-18 Revised:2004-04-08 Online:2005-12-10

Abstract: We established a regression model between Grassland Health Index(GHI) and visible/infrared and applied GHI in TM.Compared with NDVI image on the TM data,GHI reflects effectively the human disturbance on grassland.Moreover,GHI image could illustrate vegetation pattern,especially patch structure,better than other indices.Applying GHI to the historical TM data of this region,the vegetation cover change and change mode of grazing were discussed.

Key words: Vicia faba, Cu, As, Micronucleus test, Mutab ility

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