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Landscape pattern analysis of Mongolia based on the geographical partitions

LI Yi-fan1,2, WANG Juan-le1,3, ZHU Jun-xiang1   

  1. 1 State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System, IGSNRR, CAS, Beijing 100101, China;
    2 Institute of Oceanology, CAS, Qingdao 266071, Shandong, China;
    3 Jiangsu Center for Collaborative Innovation in Geographical Information Resource Development and Application, Nanjing 210023, Jiangsu, China
  • Received:2016-03-01 Revised:2016-05-29 Online:2016-07-25

Abstract: As a friendly neighbor,Mongolia is also an important partner of China's "One Belt and One Road" and "China-Mongolia-Russia Economic corridor". The two countries share many common interests in resource development,environmental protection and regional sustainable development. Further understanding Mongolia's landscape pattern and man-land relationship is significant to bilateral ties and regional development. By using the boundaries lying between arid and semiarid zones,this paper has divided Mongolia into five partitions-Southern Gobi(SG),Altai Mountain(AM),Northern Forest(NF),Central Area(CA) and Eastern Mongolian Plateau(EP). On the basis of Mongolia's land cover data in 2010,this paper got and compared some landscape indices in terms of landscape composition,patch density,shape,aggregation and diversity,etc. Furthermore,in 2013 and 2014,we have been to Mongolia to do some landscape validation. The analysis results show the overall landscape in Mongolia gradually changes from forest to steppe to barren from north to south. Influenced by its discriminate climatic and topographic conditions,the landscape of these 5 partitions differs. Referring to the above analysis,we have proposed some suggestions to these 5 partitions:(1) as an emerging economic hinterland,SG should try to balance the environment protection and the infrastructure construction;(2) under the premise of protecting wildlife habitats,AM is suggested to make more efforts in developing eco-tourism industry;(3) more natural reserves can be built in NF to protect the species and genetic diversity of the partition;(4) CA is recommended to new more secondary cities to alleviate transportation,housing and environmental pressure to the capital; (5) EP is supposed to find a more scientific and reasonable grazing system to keep the grassland resources more sustainable. This paper is expected to offer some support for the long time corporation between Mongolia and China.

Key words: landscape pattern, geographical partition, land cover, Mongolia, policy recommendations

CLC Number: 

  • P901