Land use changes, landscape ecology and their socioeconomic driving forces in the Spanish Mediterranean coast (El Maresme County, 1850–2005)
Land use changes, landscape ecology and their socioeconomic driving forces in the Spanish Mediterranean coast (El Maresme County, 1850–2005)
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DOI：
10.1016/j.envsci.2012.08.002
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发表时间：
2012-11
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6
通讯作者：
Lluis Parcerisas;J. Marull;J. Pino;E. Tello;Francesc Coll;C. Basnou
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作者：
Lluis Parcerisas;J. Marull;J. Pino;E. Tello;Francesc Coll;C. Basnou
一组景观指标是用来研究一个典型的地中海沿岸地区从1850年到2005年的长期环境变化。我们的数据显示，1950年至2005年期间，环境急剧恶化。这种景观退化的主要直接驱动力是城市扩张对沿海平原前农业区的影响，以及低密度住宅区、公路和其他线性基础设施拦截的山坡的废弃和重新造林。然后，进行统计冗余分析（RDA），以确定这些环境影响的某些最终的社会经济和政治驱动因素。结果证实，从定量的角度来看，我们的主要假设，一些最终的地理禀赋和社会经济或政治驱动因素决定了土地覆被的变化，反过来，改变了结构和功能的景观特性。
A set of landscape metrics is used to study the long-term environmental transformation of a typical coastal Mediterranean area from 1850 to 2005. Our figures show a dramatic environmental deterioration between 1950 and 2005. The main proximate drivers of this landscape degradation are the effects of urban sprawl on former agricultural areas located in the coastal plains, together with the abandonment and reforestation of hilly slopes intercepted by low-density residential areas, highways, and other linear infrastructures. Then, a statistical redundancy analysis (RDA) is carried out to identify certain ultimate socioeconomic and political drivers of these environmental impacts. The results confirm, from a quantitative perspective, our main hypothesis that some ultimate geographical endowments and socioeconomic or political drivers have determined land cover changes which, in turn, have altered both structural and functional landscape properties.