Monitoring Loss and Recovery of Salt Marshes in the Liao River Delta, China

	Monitoring Loss and Recovery of Salt Marshes in the Liao River Delta, China
	M. M. Jia; Z. M. Wang; D. W. Liu; C. Y. Ren; X. G. Tang; Z. Y. Dong
刊名	Journal of Coastal Research
	2015
卷号	31 期号:2 页码:371-377
通讯作者	王宗明
中文摘要	Coastal salt marsh plays an important role in the aquatic food web and the export of nutrients to coastal waters. The salt marshes in the Liao River Delta of China, dominated by Suaeda heteroptera, experienced a dramatic loss in the 1990s and then recovered in the 2000s. This study investigates these changes of salt marsh using a time series of Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) images acquired in 1988, 1995, 2000, 2004, 2007, and 2009. The classification tree method was used on these TM images to extract S. heteroptera, and an interactive self-organizing data analysis algorithm was used to determine other land cover types. The conversions between salt marsh and other land cover types were described with conversion matrices. The classification results show that, during 1998-2004, salt marsh decreased dramatically at an average rate of 662.68 ha/y. However, during the period 2004-2009, salt marsh recovered gradually at a rate of 115.51 ha/y. The conversion matrix indicates that, from 1988 to 2004, a large area of former salt marsh was directly replaced by man-made landscape types, such as reed field (5111 ha), aquaculture pond (2655 ha), reservoir (1720 ha), and paddy field (729 ha). In contrast, the result for the period from 2004 to 2009 shows that salt marshes were recovered by the conversion of some areas of former barren beaches and river back to salt marsh. Driving forces analysis suggests that salt marsh dynamics were mainly caused by human activities, with the secondary drivers being climatic warming and dry conditions.
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://159.226.123.10/handle/131322/6509]
专题	东北地理与农业生态研究所_地理景观遥感学科组_期刊论文
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	M. M. Jia,Z. M. Wang,D. W. Liu,et al. Monitoring Loss and Recovery of Salt Marshes in the Liao River Delta, China[J]. Journal of Coastal Research,2015,31(2):371-377.
APA	M. M. Jia,Z. M. Wang,D. W. Liu,C. Y. Ren,X. G. Tang,&Z. Y. Dong.(2015).Monitoring Loss and Recovery of Salt Marshes in the Liao River Delta, China.Journal of Coastal Research,31(2),371-377.
MLA	M. M. Jia,et al."Monitoring Loss and Recovery of Salt Marshes in the Liao River Delta, China".Journal of Coastal Research 31.2(2015):371-377.