Landscape fragmentation associated with the Qingzang Highway and its influencing factors—A comparison study on road sections and buffers
Many studies have examined the effect of roads on landscape fragmentation. Yet they rarely considered local characteristics of the road and road buffer widths. Therefore, this study that took place in the Qingzang Highway (QH) examined the variations in road buffers and road sections of landscape fr...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:fcfb4bc623194dc4a0096eddc1058da3 2023-05-15T17:57:27+02:00 Landscape fragmentation associated with the Qingzang Highway and its influencing factors—A comparison study on road sections and buffers Yi Miao Teqi Dai Xingdou Yang Jinping Song 2021-03-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geosus.2021.03.001 https://doaj.org/article/fcfb4bc623194dc4a0096eddc1058da3 EN eng Elsevier http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666683921000080 https://doaj.org/toc/2666-6839 2666-6839 doi:10.1016/j.geosus.2021.03.001 https://doaj.org/article/fcfb4bc623194dc4a0096eddc1058da3 Geography and Sustainability, Vol 2, Iss 1, Pp 59-67 (2021) Qingzang Highway Landscape fragmentation Road section Buffer Geodetector Geography (General) G1-922 Environmental sciences GE1-350 article 2021 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geosus.2021.03.001 2022-12-31T07:04:40Z Many studies have examined the effect of roads on landscape fragmentation. Yet they rarely considered local characteristics of the road and road buffer widths. Therefore, this study that took place in the Qingzang Highway (QH) examined the variations in road buffers and road sections of landscape fragmentation. The QH was divided into 32 sections with 23 buffer areas. Based on the indicators of landscape fragmentation from 1980 to 2018, we found significant spatial heterogeneity between sections and buffers. Generally, landscape fragmentation decreased with increasing buffer distance to the QH. For different sections, the coefficients of variation between buffers were rather high and significantly different. Therefore, fixed-width buffers may overestimate or underestimate the spatial scope and influence intensity of a road. The impacts of road sections around provincial capitals, prefecture-level cities and main counties on landscape fragmentation were relatively extensive and formed clusters of highly fragmented areas. Geodetector results indicated that natural and anthropogenic factors, such as altitude, climate, distance to major settlements and socioeconomic conditions, could well explain the spatiotemporal characteristics of landscape fragmentation. Altitude, precipitation and the distance to major settlements had higher explanatory power for landscape fragmentation in permafrost regions, whereas slope and socioeconomic condition had higher explanatory power for non-permafrost regions in Xizang Autonomous Region. Article in Journal/Newspaper permafrost Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Geography and Sustainability 2 1 59 67 |
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Many studies have examined the effect of roads on landscape fragmentation. Yet they rarely considered local characteristics of the road and road buffer widths. Therefore, this study that took place in the Qingzang Highway (QH) examined the variations in road buffers and road sections of landscape fragmentation. The QH was divided into 32 sections with 23 buffer areas. Based on the indicators of landscape fragmentation from 1980 to 2018, we found significant spatial heterogeneity between sections and buffers. Generally, landscape fragmentation decreased with increasing buffer distance to the QH. For different sections, the coefficients of variation between buffers were rather high and significantly different. Therefore, fixed-width buffers may overestimate or underestimate the spatial scope and influence intensity of a road. The impacts of road sections around provincial capitals, prefecture-level cities and main counties on landscape fragmentation were relatively extensive and formed clusters of highly fragmented areas. Geodetector results indicated that natural and anthropogenic factors, such as altitude, climate, distance to major settlements and socioeconomic conditions, could well explain the spatiotemporal characteristics of landscape fragmentation. Altitude, precipitation and the distance to major settlements had higher explanatory power for landscape fragmentation in permafrost regions, whereas slope and socioeconomic condition had higher explanatory power for non-permafrost regions in Xizang Autonomous Region. |
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