NDLI: Remote sensing measure of severity on the Zhalong wetlands and consequent ecological effects

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Zhiqiang Wang Li Jiang Bo Kong Hao Chen Tongguo Zhang
Copyright Year	2014
Description	Author affiliation: Hunan Province Eng. Lab. of Geospatial Inf., Hunan Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Xiangtan, China (Zhiqiang Wang; Li Jiang; Bo Kong; Hao Chen; Tongguo Zhang)
Abstract	Wildfire severity is widely used for measuring the effects of wildfire interference on the environment and ecosystems. Taken Zhalong national natural reserve(NNR) as a case study, through the application of an index called differenced Normalized Burn Ratio(dNBR) to measure wildfire severity and other RS and GIS spatial analysis tools, the relationships between the wildfire severity and potential environmental factors were studied, the effects of wildfire severity on the habitats of red-crowned cranes and the responses of red-crowned cranes to the wildfire disturbance were also discussed. The following conclusions are achieved: the wildfire severity varied in different functional zones, while the wildfire severity of the core area was the highest among all the zones; that of the buffer zone was the secondary, and the test zone and the ecologically planning zone the lowest. The core zone, which is low-lying and the scope of the altitude is between 148 m and 154 m and the vegetation is dominantly reeds, tends to burn. The responses of the red crane population in the study area were to flee away and colonize new habitats. But the new colonized habitats showed the tendency of being close to the burned areas rather than far away from them. The study provides references for the conservation of the study area.
Starting Page	379
Ending Page	383
File Size	250953
Page Count	5
File Format	PDF
e-ISBN	9781479941841
DOI	10.1109/EORSA.2014.6927917
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2014-06-11
Publisher Place	China
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Earth Zhalong NRR GIS RS Cranes Conferences Fires Vegetation mapping wildfire disturbance differenced Normalized Burn Ratio Indexes Remote sensing
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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