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Land use change and its ecological effects in the ecotone of Southern Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region:A case study of Akesu City area

SHI Yongliang1,2;WANG Rusong1;ZHOU Haibo3;CHEN Liang1   

  1. 1Research Center for Eco-Environmental Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China;2Construction Administer Bureau of Akesu City, Akesu 843000, China; 3College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China

  • Received:2005-12-12 Revised:2006-03-30 Online:2006-07-10 Published:2006-07-10

Abstract: Land use change and its ecological effects is a hotspot in the study of land use/land cover change (LUCC). Based on the TM images in 1995, 2000 and 2003, and according to the parameter proportion provided by Costanza in the evaluation of global ecosystem service value, this paper analyzed the ecological values of different land use types in the Akesu City of Xinjiang Autonomous Uyghur Region, and quantitatively assessed the ecological effects of LUCC in the rural and urban areas of the City. The results showed that the landscape fragmentation index in Akesu City was high, and near half of its cropland was instable because of water stress. During the study period, land use change improved the ecological benefits of land use, and presented a significant spatial diversity.

Key words: Pear, Pear rust, Gymnosporangium haraeanum, Resistance, Niche breadth