南京市城市景观的特征尺度

在RS技术支持下,采用分辨率为10m的SPOT-5遥感影像为数据源,分别应用Haar、Morlet、Mexican Hat 3种基小波,对南京市江北城郊、主城区和东南城郊3种不同景观类型进行了特征尺度研究。结果表明,Modet基小波最适于进行城市景观的特征尺度检测,Mexican Hat基小波对粒级嵌套结构检测效果稍差,而Haar基小波不适于对连续型数据源的景观进行特征尺度检测。Morlet基小波的一维小波分析结果表明,南京市江北城郊和东南城郊都存在1个对应于各自农田斑块平均粒径的特征尺度,分别为362m和446m,而主城区则检测出存在3个特征尺度,即：292、835m和2200m,分别对应于建筑小区、小型街区和大型街区的平均粒径,显示主城区存在具有等级结构特征的“建筑小区-小型街区-大型街区”的粒级嵌套结构,揭示了城区具有比城郊复杂得多的粒级结构特征。     

基于多尺度协同的长沙市生态网络构建与层级优化

城市化背景下人类与自然环境的矛盾呈现出多尺度、层级化特征,而传统生态网络的构建方式较少考虑不同尺度下生态要素的关系,无法从区域落实到中心城区,难以形成系统性的解决方案。研究在综合梳理各尺度生态网络构建方法的基础上,以长沙市为例,基于形态学空间格局分析（Morphological Spatial Pattern Analysis,MSPA）、景观连通性原理和生态斑块重要性评价识别生态源地,并通过多层级生态阻力面的确定,综合运用最小费用路径（Least-cost path method,LCP）、电路理论、层级传导理论、尺度嵌套等方法对市域、都市区、中心城区的生态网络进行了协同构建和层级优化,最后基于不同尺度生态网络的特点应用并落实到多层级的国土空间规划体系中。研究结果表明：（1）长沙市域生态网络和都市区生态网络具有较好的层级嵌套特征;共识别两尺度生态叠合源地14个、生态叠合廊道15条,主要通过中心城区内的湘江、浏阳河和捞刀河部分河段与外围生态绿圈相衔接,形成"外环内楔"的空间格局。（2）确定市域重要廊道、市域潜在廊道、生态叠合廊道、都市区重要廊道、都市区潜在廊道的核心保护面积共501.14 km²,并提取位于生态廊道核心保护区范围内的生态夹点和生态障碍点,以进一步落实生态保护修复策略。（3）得到具有重要生态连通功能的中心城区生态绿道长度441.2 km,生态修复单元56个,并结合生态阻力值划分为5级进行针对性修复。（4）基于不同尺度生态网络的衔接、嵌套,最终构建"市域总体生态安全格局-都市区城市生态空间发展格局-以城市绿道为基础的中心城区生态修复单元",并与不同层级的国土空间规划体系相对应。研究结果将为以大城市为中心的跨尺度生态系统修复和生态安全格局构建提供科学参考。     

南京市城区景观特征尺度动态

利用南京市1988、1998和2006年Landsat TM遥感影像,采用小波分析技术,对1988—2006年南京市中心城区的景观结构特征进行了研究.结果表明：应用小波分析技术分析景观样带数据时,取样宽度过小易导致检测结果的不稳定,而样带过宽则易导致较小尺度特征的丢失,应采用合适的样带宽度;基于TM影像（30 m空间分辨率）的南京市城区样带宽度以4个像元为最佳.1988、1998和2006年,南京市中心城区都存在4个相对稳定的特征尺度域,分别对应于功能小区、小型街区、中型街区和大型街区;研究期间,大型街区的特征尺度几乎没有变化,而其它3个尺度域的变化相对较大,但各尺度域的变化趋势一致;各尺度域内特征尺度之间的差异性均逐渐变小,表明期间中心城区的结构特征越来越稳定,不同部位的空间结构趋同,且各尺度域的变化有较强的同步性.     

不同尺度下城市景观综合指数的空间变异特征研究

在GIS与RS技术支持下,采用5 m分辨率的SPOT遥感图像数据,从城市土地利用角度,利用半变异函数对不同尺度的景观多样性、聚集度与分维数的空间变异进行了定量分析.结果表明,不同尺度下3种指数的空间变异具有相似特征,各个尺度上都具有空间依赖性,尺度越小,空间依赖性越大,空间变异的细节更显著,空间自相关性对总体变异的贡献逐渐增加,但尺度过小,有时会破坏景观内部结构.不同指数的半变异函数模型在相同尺度上差异显著,说明不同景观指数在不同尺度下的半变异函数模型不具可比性.就研究上海市内部土地利用结构而言,1 km的幅度是较合适的空间尺度.景观指数空间变异特征是尺度的函数,尺度对景观格局的影响不能忽视.景观综合指数对尺度响应的生态过程揭示了上海城市空间结构的规律性:在小尺度上的复杂无规律性,中尺度上的多中心性和大尺度上的圈层结构性,但各个尺度是相互依赖的,没有绝对界限.     

基于二维小波分析的景观特征尺度识别

采用3种常用小波基（Haar、Daubechies和Symlet）,探讨了二维小波分析在沈阳地区城市、城乡交错区和农村3种景观类型特征尺度识别中的有效性.由于二维小波分析的变换尺度必须为2的整数次幂,这会导致景观中一些特征尺度无法精确识别,故本文将各景观类型影像像元大小分别重采样为3、3.5、4和4.5 m,以增加分析时的尺度密度.结果表明：应用二维小波分析可清晰地识别景观特征尺度;Haar、Daubechies、Symle可分别作为城乡交错区景观、城市景观和农村景观特征尺度识别的最优小波基;Haar和Symlet均可应用于农村景观精细特征尺度的识别和城乡交错区景观边界的检测;Daubechies和Symlet可分别用于城市景观和农村景观的边界检测.     

城市化景观格局对本土植物多样性的多尺度影响——以北京市顺义区为例

景观格局对植物多样性的影响已经在很多研究中得到了验证,但有关城市景观的影响仍然知之甚少。为了探究城市化景观格局对植物多样性的影响及其尺度效应,本研究在北京市顺义区调查了105个样地,计算每个样地的α和β多样性指数;并以100 m为步长,分析了100～1000 m范围内的10个尺度43个城市的景观格局指数。结果表明: 在所有尺度上,城市景观面积指数、核心类指数和边缘指数与本土植物多样性均呈负相关;形状复杂性指数在小尺度内有利于植物多样性,而面积加权复杂性指数则在较大尺度上影响明显。其他指数如城市斑块的连接性、邻近性、内聚性、破碎性和散布并列指数与本土植物多样性之间的关系轻微且不稳定。城市化强度与尺度呈负相关,与各个尺度的植物多样性呈负相关。合理将城市区域分为许多边缘简单的小斑块,能够更好地保护本土植物多样性。该研究提出了保护城市植物多样性的景观格局建议,为生态城市建设提供参考。     

Habitat selection of breeding riparian birds in an urban environment: untangling the relative importance of biophysical elements and spatial scale

Aim Urbanization is a leading threat to global biodiversity, yet little is known about how the spatial arrangement and composition of biophysical elements – buildings and vegetation – within a metropolitan area influence habitat selection. Here, we ask: what is the relative importance of the structure and composition of these elements on bird species across multiple spatial scales? Location The temperate metropolitan area of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. Methods We surveyed breeding birds on 71 plots along an urban gradient. We modelled relative density for 48 bird species in relation to local woody vegetation composition and structure and to tree cover, grass cover and building density within 50–1000 m of each plot. We used an information‐theoretic approach to compare models and variables. Results At the proximate scale, native tree and understory stem frequency were the most important vegetation variables explaining bird distributions. Species’ responses to landscape biophysical features and spatial scales varied. Most native species responded positively to vegetation measures and negatively to building density. Models combining both local vegetation and landscape information represented best or competitive models for the majority of species, while models containing only local vegetation characteristics were rarely competitive. Smaller spatial scales (≤ 500 m) were most important for 36 species, and eight species had best models at larger scales (> 500 m); however, several species had competitive models across multiple scales. Main conclusions Habitat selection by birds within the urban matrix is the result of a combination of factors operating at both proximate and broader spatial scales. Efforts to manage and design urban areas to benefit native birds require both fine‐scale (e.g., individual landowners and landscape design) and larger landscape actions (e.g., regional comprehensive planning).     

Patterns of resource tracking by avian frugivores at multiple spatial scales: two case studies on discordance among scales

Scaling is relevant for the analysis of plant‐frugivore interaction, since the ecological and evolutionary outcomes of seed dispersal depend on the spatial and temporal scale at which frugivory patterns emerge. We analyse the relationship between fruit abundance and frugivore activity at local and landscape spatial scales in two different systems composed, respectively, by the bird‐dispersed woody plants Juniperus communis and Bursera fagaroides, and their frugivore assemblages. We use a hierarchical approach of nested patchiness of fruit‐resource, where patches are defined by individual plants within site, at the local scale, and by sites within region, at the landscape scale. The structure of patches is also described in terms of contrast (differences in fruit availability among patches) and aggregation (spatial distribution of patches). For J. communis, frugivore activity was positively related to fruit availability at the landscape scale, this pattern seldom emerging at the local scale; conversely, B. fagaroides showed a general trend of positive local pattern that disappeared at the landscape scale. These particular trends might be partially explained by differences in contrast and aggregation. The strong contrast among plants within site together with a high aggregation among sites would promote the B. fagaroides pattern to be only local, whereas in J. communis, low aggregation among sites within region would favour a sharp landscape‐scale pattern. Both systems showed discordant patterns of fruit‐resource tracking among consecutive spatial scales, but the sense of discordance differed among systems. These results, and the available multi‐scale frugivory data, suggest that discordance among successive scales allows to link directly frugivory patterns to resource‐tracking mechanisms acting at particular scales, resulting, thus, more informative than concordance observational data, in which landscape patterns might result from accumulated effect of local mechanisms. In this context, we propose new methodological approaches for a better understanding of the hierarchical behavioural mechanisms underpinning the multi‐scale resource tracking by frugivores.     

IKONOS影像景观格局特征尺度的小波与半方差分析

建立不同方向和尺度下景观格局的小波分析方法,并以IKONOS PAN 1m 影像为例,对城市景观和农田景观格局进行了实例研究,并与半方差函数的分析结果进行比较分析。试验结果发现试验区的城市景观图像表现出不同层次和方向的结构特征,主要是阴影－单个楼房－楼房与道路的组合3个尺度的特征,分别出现在2m,16m和128m以及256m分析尺度上,农田景观主要是树木行－农田2个层次和方向尺度特征组合,分别为2m,128m和256m。半方差分析结果对试验区景观结构的多层次和方向不敏感,但可发现景观结构的总体平均特征。城市景观总体结构在空间上的变程为135m,反映的是楼房与道路组合的总体平均特征;农田景观总体结构在空间上的变程为152m。通过改变半方差函数的分析范围和计算间距可以克服半方差对多尺度分析的不足,如该试验通过缩小城市景观和农田分析范围,也发现城市景观有一个在空间结构上15m的变程,与小波分析的特征尺度16m非常接近,而农田景观出现空穴效应的周期一半长度大约为2m,正好是小波分析出种植树木的行距结构特征尺度的大小。这要分析者对研究有一定的先验知识才能够做到选择合适的分析范围,而这恰是景观格局特征尺度分析服务的目的。通过试验区研究证明小波分析是一非常有应用前景的景观格局研究方法,与半方差分析相比,对在解释多尺度结构和不同方向的结构具有明显的优势,且不受分析数据统计平稳假设的约束,但由于对图像分解是基于2进制,导致分析尺度以2的幂函数变化,不像半方差分析可通过理论模型拟合,对特征尺度的估计可以是连续的。     

生态学系统的空间异质性

空间异质性是生态学系统的一个普遍牧场生,生态学家对它在生态学中的重要性已取得了比以往更深刻的认识。试图从空间异质性的含义,空间异质性与尺度和等级的关系,空间异质性的定量描述,空间异质性对生物和非生物过程的影响,以及空间异质性的动态等5个方面综述了有关空间异质性的生态学研究的新进展。     

Hierarchical patch dynamics and animal movement pattern

In hierarchical patch systems, small-scale patches of high density are nested within large-scale patches of low density. The organization of multiple-scale hierarchical systems makes non-random strategies for dispersal and movement particularly important. Here, we apply a new method based on first-passage time on the pathway of a foraging seabird, the Antarctic petrel (Thalassoica antarctica), to quantify its foraging pattern and the spatial dynamics of its foraging areas. Our results suggest that Antarctic petrels used a nested search strategy to track a highly dynamic hierarchical patch system where small-scale patches were congregated within patches at larger scales. The birds searched for large-scale patches by traveling fast and over long distances. Once within a large-scale patch, the birds concentrated their search to find smaller scale patches. By comparing the pathway of different birds we were able to quantify the spatial scale and turnover of their foraging areas. On the largest scale we found foraging areas with a characteristic scale of about 400 km. Nested within these areas we found foraging areas with a characteristic scale of about 100 km. The large-scale areas disappeared or moved within a time frame of weeks while the nested small-scale areas disappeared or moved within days. Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) is the dominant food item of Antarctic petrels and we suggest that our findings reflect the spatial dynamics of krill in the area.Electronic Supplementary Material Supplementary material is available to authorised users in the online version of this article at .     

城市景观空间自相关与自相似的尺度特征研究

在RS与GIS技术支持下,以上海市外环以内城市中心区为区域背景,研究城市景观格局空间自相关与分形结构在不同粒度下的变化特征,揭示其对粒度的响应特征和敏感程度。结果表明,城市景观格局的空间自相关性和自相似性依赖于粒度的选择,MoranⅠ与各种景观类型的分维数均存在尺度效应;城市景观格局空间自相关性与自相似性在一定尺度范围内具有尺度依赖性,但二者对尺度的依赖程度不同。空间自相关性具有较高的尺度依赖性;而不同景观类型的自相似性随尺度的变化没有统一规律;城市景观格局的空间自相关性和自相似性对尺度变化的敏感点不同。居住景观的MoranⅠ对尺度变化的敏感点为50m,其他景观类型无明显的敏感点;分维数对尺度的敏感点因景观类型不同而异。     

Contrasting Patterns in Solitary and Eusocial Bees While Responding to Landscape Features in the Brazilian Cerrado: a Multiscaled Perspective

Landscape structure is an important determinant of biological fluxes and species composition, but species do not respond equally to landscape features or spatial extents. Evaluating “multi-scale” responses of species to landscape structure is an important framework to be considered, allowing insights about habitat requirements for different groups. We evaluated the response of Brazilian Cerrado’s bees (eusocial vs. solitary ones) to both the amount and isolation of remnant vegetation in eight nested multiple-local scales. Response variables included abundance, observed, and estimated species richness, and beta diversity (split into nestedness and turnover resultant dissimilarities). Eusocial species’ abundance responded to landscape structure at narrow scales of fragment isolation (250 m of radius from sampling sites), while solitary species’ abundance responded to broader scales to fragment area (2000 m). Eusocial species nestedness also responded to landscape features in broader scales (1500 m), especially to increasing fragment isolation. However, all the remaining response variables did not respond to any other landscape variables in any spatial scale considered. Such contrasting responses of the abundances of eusocial vs. solitary species are related to the inherent life-history traits of each group. Important attributes in this context are different requirements on food resources, population features, and flight abilities. Species-specific dispersal abilities may be the main determinants of the nested patterns found for eusocial species at 1500 m. Considering these results, we suggest that different bee groups are considered separately in further landscape analyses, especially in other Brazilian biomes, for a better understanding of landscape effects on these organisms.     

Vegetation responses to landscape structure at multiple scales across a Northern Wisconsin,USA, pine barrens landscape

Increasing awareness of the importance of scale and landscape structure to landscape processes and concern about loss of biodiversity has resulted in efforts to understand patterns of biodiversity across multiple scales. We examined plant species distributions and their relationships to landscape structure at varying spatial scales across a pine barrens landscape in northern Wisconsin, U.S.A. We recorded plant species cover in 1×1 m plots every 5 m along a 3575 m transect, along with variables describing macro- and micro-landscape structure. A total of 139 understory plant species were recorded. The distributions of many species appeared to be strongly associated with landscape structural features, such as distinct management patches and roads. TWINSPAN and detrended correspondence analysis (DCA) identified three groups of species that overlapped extensively in the ordination, possibly reflecting the relatively homogeneous nature of disturbance in the pine barrens landscape. Distribution of understory plants did not reflect all of the patch types we identified along the transect; plot ordination and classification resulted in three to five plot groups that differed in niche breadth. Wavelet transforms showed varying relationships between landscape features and plant diversity indices (Shannon–Weiner, Simpson's Dominance) at different resolutions. Wavelet variances indicated that patterns of Shannon diversity were dominated by coarse resolutions ranging from 900–1500 m, which may have been related to topography. Patterns of Simpson's Dominance were dominated by 700 m resolution, possibly associated with canopy cover. However, a strong correspondence between overstory patch type and diversity was found for several patch types at ranges of scales that varied by patch type. Effects of linear features such as roads were apparent in the wavelet transforms at resolutions of about 5–1000 m, suggesting roads may have an important impact on plant diversity at landscape scales. At broad scales, landscape context appeared more important to diversity than individual patches, suggesting that changes in structure at fine resolutions could alter overall diversity characteristics of the landscape. Therefore, a hierarchical perspective is necessary to recognize potential large-scale change resulting from small-scale activities.     

哈尔滨东部城乡土地梯度带的划分及景观结构

以哈尔滨市及东部郊区为对象,重点研究城乡土地梯度带的划分以及造成这种景观分异的内在机制,特别是对镶嵌在城市到乡村之间土地类型的数量变化,研究土地景观结构的特点.研究区范围东西35km,南北16km,在GIS平台上使用TM与SPOT卫星图像划分出东西2.5km,南北16km大小的14条等面积的连续梯度带,根据等面积梯度带的建筑密度和道路密度将研究区域划分为市区、近郊区、远郊区3个梯度区.应用计算机目视判读方法对研究区内进行了土地类型的识别及区划,利用GIS空间分析,计算了各种梯度带的内的不同土地类型的长度、面积.通过这些计算与分析研究了哈尔滨市及东部城乡之间不同梯度带的绿地景观空间结构特点,以绿地建设为核心,辅以城市景观结构及空间格局的特点,分析讨论不同城乡梯度带景观分异的成因.研究表明,区域道路密度和建筑物密度可以在一定程度上反应出城市化进程,据此将哈尔滨及东部城乡划分为市区、近郊区和远郊区;不同梯度区域有其各自的人文景观结构特点和绿地景观结构特点,讨论了造成这种梯度特征的内在机制,并对研究区域未来的城乡绿地及景观建设和可持续发展提出了建议.     

Regeneration pattern analysis of Quercus Iiaotungensis in a temperate forest using two-dimensional wavelet analysis

This paper introduces the two-dimensional (2D) wavelet analysis as a general interrogative technique for the detection of spatial structure in lattice data. The 2D wavelet analysis detects components of hierarchical structure and displays the locational information of the components. Patches and gaps of different spatial scales in graphical presentation of wavelet coefficients can be linked to the local ecological processes that determine patterns at stand or landscape scales. Derived from the 2D wavelet transform function, the calculation of wavelet variance can reduce the four-dimensional data of wavelet coefficients to a two-dimensional wavelet variance function and quantify the contribution of the given scale to the overall pattern. We illustrate the use of the 2D wavelet analysis by analyzing two simulated patterns and identifying the regeneration pattern of the Quercus liaotungensis in a warm temperate forest in north China. Our results indicate that the recruitment of Q. liaotungensis occurs in an overlapping area between the patch of adult and canopy gap at scales of 45m×45m-70m×70 m and 20m×20m-30m×30m. The regeneration pattern of Q. liaotungensis can be mainly ascribed to a trade-off between two ecological processes: recruitment around parent trees and the physiological light requirements of seedlings and saplings. Our results provide a general portrayal of the regeneration pattern for the dispersal-limited and shade-intolerant Quercus species. We find that the two-dimensional wavelet analysis efficiently characterizes the scale-specific pattern of Q. liaotungensis at different life-history stages.     

上海市城市土地利用景观的空间尺度效应

在RS与GIS技术支持下,基于2002年上海市5m分辨率的SPOT遥感影像和上海城市土地利用的景观类型,定量分析了几种常用景观格局指数随尺度的变化规律．结果表明：上海市土地利用景观格局指数对粒度和幅度变化都很敏感,景观格局具有明显的尺度依赖性,不同指数对尺度的响应特征不同;40m分辨率是上海城市土地利用景观的本征观测尺度,小于这个尺度范围往往表现出随机性特征;24km的幅度是一个特征操作尺度,与上海市建成区与非建成区边界的范围相吻合,说明对于上海城市景观而言,距离城市中心12km的幅度可能是一个本征的操作尺度;上海市城市结构的复杂性和城市空间扩展的不对称性,说明上海城市景观格局的本征操作尺度并不是一个规则的形状,24km的正方形范围仅是一个近似的操作尺度．     

Distribution and dispersal of desert mistletoe is scale-dependent, hierarchically nested

Spatial patterns are important to many ecological processes, and scale is a critical component of both patterns and processes. I examined the pattern and scale of the spatial distribution of infection of host plants by the desert mistletoe, Phoradendron californicum, in a landscape that spans several square kilometers. I also studied the relationship between mistletoe infection and seed dispersal. I found elevated seed rain in areas with a high prevalence of mistletoes and I found that a greater proportion of trees receive seeds than are infected, suggesting that mistletoes will be aggregated in space. Using nested analysis of variance and variograms, I found that mistletoe infections were distributed in hierarchical patches. Mistletoes were aggregated within trees and mistletoe prevalence was correlated at scales of <1500 m, and at scales >4000 m. Patterns at the largest scales were correlated with elevation: sites at higher elevations showed reduced mistletoe infection compared to those at lower elevations. I propose that at small scales, mistletoe distributions are primarily the result of aggregation of seed-dispersing birds, and that the elevational effect could reflect the recent colonization of higher elevations by the mistletoes' mesquite hosts or the limits of the mistletoes' physiological tolerance to freezing-induced cavitation.     

The spatial scale of variability in small-mammal populations

We studied small-mammal populations across a range of spatial scales to determine which scales were relevant to demographic variability. We predicted that a scale of variability in population structure would occur at the scale of dispersal, which has previously been described as < 200 m for some small-mammal species. Systematic live-trapping surveys were conducted on nested grids at three scales: 1) extent = 4900 ha. grain =1000 m; 2) extent = 306 ha, grain = 250 m: and 3) extent = 31 ha. grain = 125 m. Prior to the present study, small-mammal populations had not been systematically live-trapped across a similar range of scales. From 1996 to 1998, surveys were conducted on a landscape intensively managed for timber, and on a reference landscape. Spatial analysis of abundance data demonstrated that small-mammal populations (four species) exhibited positive spatial autocorrelation at distances of between 133 and 533 m depending on the species and the landscape. No higher-order population structure was detected. Thus, within the range of scales we sampled, variability in small-mammal abundance occurred over short distances (i.e. 133–533 m).