Spatial pattern and compositive structure of forests in Guizhou |
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Authors: | YAO Yonghui ZHANG Baiping ZHOU Chenghu LUO Yang ZHU Jun QIN Gang LI Baolin CHEN Xiaodong |
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Institution: | 1. Inst. of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, Beijing 100101, China|
2. Inst. of Forestry Survey and Design of Guizhou Province, Guiyang 550003, China |
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Abstract: | Remote-sensing and field data of Guizhou forest resources in 2000 are processed using ArcGIS, with the production of forest resource distribution map, forest age class structure map, and forest canopy distribution map. Analysis of these data shows that: (1) though there are multiple types of forest resources, forest coverage is low (only 25.27%, excluding sparse woodland, shrub and underage-forest); (2) the geographical distribution of forests is quite uneven, mainly in the southeast of the province and in Zunyi prefecture; (3) the zonal evergreen broad-leaved forests have been seriously destroyed, with striking secondary features, i.e., coniferous forest and shrubbery account for the greatest proportion of Guizhou forests; (4) the timber-forest is much larger in area than shelter-forest and economic forest; (5) young-and-middle aged forests are more widely distributed than near-and-over matured forest; and (6) the forest of Guizhou is not enough to effectively protect the environment of karst mountain areas of the province. |
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Keywords: | forest resources spatial pattern compositive structure Guizhou |
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