Historical Delineation of Landscape Units Using Physical Geographic Characteristics and Land Use/Cover Change
Abstract: Landscape units are conceived as a part of the territory that share similar physical and geographic characteristics. Their delineation can contribute to identify the physical and social dynamics that emerge in the spatial environment and to propose strategies of planning and management of the territory. The main objective was to make a historical delineation of landscape units in the Duero river basin that demonstrate the dynamics of changes in the territory, the description of the actors involved, and the affectations in the natural and social environment. We analyzed the vegetation change and urban growth from 1983 to 2014, incorporating climatic, edaphic, and topographic variables. A Principal Component Analysis was performed with the information and results were used in Maximum Likelihood procedure to define different clusters based on environmental characteristics. We defined five categories from the Landsat images. Results showed landscape units with homogeneous environmental characteristics and some differences in the units’ delineation were mainly influenced by political and socioeconomic factors. Temporally there was an increased tendency of landscape units, three in 1983, nine in 1990, 1995, 2000 and 2011, and eight in 2014. This increase resulted from territory fragmentation because of berries and avocado cultivars expansion over wooded area.
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
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Englisch
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Historical Delineation of Landscape Units Using Physical Geographic Characteristics and Land Use/Cover Change ; volume:10 ; number:1 ; year:2018 ; pages:45-57 ; extent:13
Open Geosciences ; 10, Heft 1 (2018), 45-57 (gesamt 13)
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Campos-Campos, Oswaldo
Cruz-Cárdenas, Gustavo
Aquino, Roque Juan Carrasco
Moncayo-Estrada, Rodrigo
Machuca, Martha Alicia Velázquez
Meléndez, Luis Arturo Ávila
- DOI
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10.1515/geo-2018-0004
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urn:nbn:de:101:1-2501051605081.886898616252
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Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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Beteiligte
- Campos-Campos, Oswaldo
- Cruz-Cárdenas, Gustavo
- Aquino, Roque Juan Carrasco
- Moncayo-Estrada, Rodrigo
- Machuca, Martha Alicia Velázquez
- Meléndez, Luis Arturo Ávila
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