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Using river basins as ecological units to evaluate landscape fragmentation

机译:使用河流盆作为生态单位来评估景观碎片

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The Water Framework Directive (Directive 2000/60/EC) links water quality with the quality of whole river basin. Whilst water quality is well defined, it is more difficult to define basin quality and this is recognised as a key problem within landscapeecology. Using a case study within the Lombardy region (23852 km2), a highly anthropogenic landscape, we evaluate the fragmentation of forest and cultural landscapes, utilising three metrics (division, splitting index, effective mesh size and the threecorresponding auxiliary quantities, coherence, splitting density, net product). Using these metrics we explore the probability of two animals placed in different areas within the study area locating each other. This was achieved by comparing the administrative subdivision of the Lombardy region with an ecological subdivision based on river basin composition. Within each subdivision we evaluated the fragmentation metrics in both forest and agricultural landscapes. Our results indicate that administrativeboundaries often do not allow for an evaluation of ecological gradients, that river basins are a good ecological unit at which to evaluate landscape fragmentation and that mesh size and other fragmentation metrics are useful tools with which to assess the quality of river basins.
机译:水框架指令(指令2000/60 / EC)将水质与全河流域的质量联系起来。虽然水质定义很好,但更难以定义盆地质量,这被认为是景观生态内的关键问题。在伦巴第地区(23852平方公里)内使用案例研究,一种高度人为景观,我们评估了森林和文化景观的碎片,利用三个指标(分裂,分裂指数,有效网格尺寸和近奇反应辅助量,连贯,分裂密度,网产品)。使用这些指标,我们探讨了彼此定位的研究区域内的不同区域中的两只动物的概率。这是通过将伦巴第地区的行政细分与基于河流域组成的生态细分的比较来实现的。在每个细分中,我们在森林和农业景观中评估了碎片指标。我们的结果表明,行政环境通常不允许评估生态梯度,该河流盆地是一种良好的生态单位,用于评估景观碎片,并且网格尺寸和其他碎片指标是评估河流盆地质量的有用工具。

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