Analyzing landscape changes in the Bafa Lake Nature Park of Turkey using remote sensing and landscape structure metrics

Hayriye Esbah; Bulent Deniz; Baris Kara; Birsen Kesgin

doi:10.1007/s10661-009-0973-y

Analyzing landscape changes in the Bafa Lake Nature Park of Turkey using remote sensing and landscape structure metrics

Hayriye Esbah^*, Bulent Deniz, Baris Kara, Birsen Kesgin

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Department of Landscape Architecture

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Abstract

Bafa Lake Nature Park is one of Turkey's most important legally protected areas. This study aimed at analyzing spatial change in the park environment by using object-based classification technique and landscape structure metrics. SPOT 2X (1994) and ASTER (2005) images are the primary research materials. Results show that artificial surfaces, low maqui, garrigue, and moderately high maqui covers have increased and coniferous forests, arable lands, permanent crop, and high maqui covers have decreased; coniferous forest, high maqui, grassland, and saline areas are in a disappearance stage of the land transformation; and the landscape pattern is more fragmented outside the park boundaries. The management actions should support ongoing vegetation regeneration, mitigate transformation of vegetation structure to less dense and discontinuous cover, control the dynamics at the agricultural-natural landscape interface, and concentrate on relatively low but steady increase of artificial surfaces.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	617-632
Number of pages	16
Journal	Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
Volume	165
Issue number	1-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-009-0973-y
Publication status	Published - Jun 2010

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Acknowledgements We are grateful to Assoc. Prof. Suha Berberoglu of Cukurova University, Landscape Architecture Department and Prof. Yusuf Kurucu of Aegean University, Soil Science Department for their help with the object-based classification of the satellite images, and also to the staff at the local branches of the General Directorate of State Hydraulic Works, Agricultural Affairs, and the Forest Service for providing us information with regards to the study area. We thank the Turkish Scientific and Technical Research Council for their financial support in this research (TUBITAK-CAYDAG 106Y015).

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Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas	TUBITAK-CAYDAG 106Y015

Keywords

Landscape change
Landscape metrics
Protected area
Remote sensing

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