The Temporal Changes in Landscape Metrics in Duzce - Asar Forest Planning Unit
2020
Keten, Serap | Zengin, Hayati
Determination of the changes in the ecosystems (drilling, breakage, deterioration, shrinkage, wear) is important in terms of taking precautions to resolve future problems and preserving the relationships between living things and their habitats. Natural areas have different structures and habitat fragmentation is spatial measurable properties and processes. Landscape metrics provide a better understanding of these processes. Metrics define spatial construction at a specific time. The introduction of the temporal variation of the metrics calculated on the natural areas will provide correct inferences for sustainable natural area management. However, such studies are limited in our country. In this study, the change of landscape metrics between 1968, 1987 and 2010 was tried to be explained in Asar Forest Planning Unit. The area of productive forests was increased, while degraded and non-forest areas decreased. Number of patches was increased and this affected the diversity index positively.
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