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http://dx.doi.org/10.13087/kosert.2016.19.2.109

Prediction of Fragmentation Impact Range of Forest Development Analyzing the Pattern of Landscape Indexes  

Ji, Seung-yong (Department of Environment & Forest Resource, Chungnam National University)
Choi, Jaeyong (Department of Environment & Forest Resource, Chungnam National University)
Lee, Sang-hyuk (Institute of Agricultural Science, Chungnam National University)
Lee, Peter Sang-Hoon (Graduate School of Urban Studies, Hanyang University)
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Journal of the Korean Society of Environmental Restoration Technology / v.19, no.2, 2016 , pp. 109-119 More about this Journal
Abstract
In South Korea the need of sustainably managing development on forest lands has required to develop a new approach to estimating environmental impacts on forest surrounding development sites in a scientific manner. As for forest-related development, two types of development were selected: golf courses and industrial complexes. Using Fragstats 4.2, the fragmentation effects and patterns of each type by forest area within project sites and buffer zones ranging from the outside of project sites up to 2,000 meters were analyzed. As a result, golf courses were strongly related to a group of fragmentation indexes: CA, NP, PD, TE, LSI, TCA, NDCA and CONNECT, whereas industrial complexes were associated with CA, NP, PD, TE, LSI and CONNECT. Among them, NP, LSI, TCA and NDCA of golf courses were considered as representative indexes reflecting the average impact ranges of each sub-group by forest area, and focussing on the size of core areas. In the case of industrial complexes, PD, TE and LSI were the representatives, vulnerable to the composition of given landscape. For two case studies, one for golf courses and the other for industrial complexes, they showed there existed a difference between the average of a group and the individual results. Therefore, to minimize the variations in impact range within a group, it is needed to analyze more individual cases. This study proved there was a distinction between project types in terms of the range of environmental impact. To effectively and comprehensively manage forest development, further research on analyzing other development types related to forests with more cases is needed.
Keywords
Forest patch; Landscape change; FRAGSTATS; Golf course; Industrial complex;
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