Impact of landscape changes on environment due to 60 year''s land use in a small catchment in Loess Hilly Region on the Loess Plateau
纸坊沟流域近60年来土地利用景观变化的环境效应

Land use can have impacts on landscape patterns thus affecting many ecological processes and functions, such as soil erosion, soil water and nutrients and hydrological process. Understanding the environmental responses to the changes in these ecological processes is crucial to the sustainable land use planning and environmental construction. Using the GIS techniques and AHP method, the landscape changes and its environmental impact in Zhifanggou catchment were analyzed and evaluated using the data from aeri...