The Relationship of Urban Expansion, Landscape Patterns and Ecological Processes in Denizli, Turkey

• Published in: Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing Vol. 46; no. 8; pp. 1285 - 1296
• Main Authors: Tagil, Sermin, Gormus, Sevgi, Cengiz, Serhat
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New Delhi Springer India 01.08.2018; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Agricultural land; Earth and Environmental Science; Earth Sciences; Ecosystems; Environmental changes; Fragmentation; Geographic information systems; Habitat changes; Habitats; Heterogeneity; Intervention; Landsat; Landsat satellites; Landscape; Perforation; Remote sensing; Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry; Research Article; Satellite imagery; Satellite navigation systems; Satellites; Shrinkage; Urban areas; Urban development; Urban sprawl; Urbanization; Habitat fragmentation; Urbanization; Denizli; Pattern metrics; Landscape ecology

Perforation, dissection, fragmentation, shrinkage and attrition in ecosystems take place due to urbanization. In this study, where and when temporal and spatial heterogeneity occurs is tried to be explained by taking human intervention in landscape pattern and processes in and around the city of Den...