Changes of the Wetland Landscape and the Consequent Impacts on the Waterbirds in Western Songnen Plain

• Published in: Procedia environmental sciences Vol. 10; pp. 2608 - 2613
• Main Authors: Zhi-Qiang, Wang, Fang, Wang, Baiyan, Wu
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V 2011
• Subjects: biodiversity; fragmentation waterbird; landscape indices; waterfoul; wetland; biodiversity; waterfoul; fragmentation waterbird; wetland; landscape indices

Wetland have been shrinking rapidly in area and degrading in functioning. These all hold back the sustainable development of human communities and caused globe changes. Taken Western Songnen Plain as a case study, a series of landscape pattern metrics were selectively used to quantify the wetland ch...