Quantifying the Spatiotemporal Patterns of Urbanization along Urban-Rural Gradient with a Roadscape Transect Approach: A Case Study in Shanghai, China
Quantifying the landscape pattern change can effectively demonstrate the ecological progresses and the consequences of urbanization. Based on remotely sensed land cover data in 1994, 2000, 2006 and a gradient analysis with landscape metrics at landscape- and class- level, we attempted to characteriz...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2016-08-01
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| Series: | Sustainability |
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| Online Access: | http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/8/9/862 |