Association of urban forest landscape characteristics with biomass and soil carbon stocks in Harbin City, Northeastern China.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Urban forests help in mitigating carbon emissions; however, their associations with landscape patterns are unclear. Understanding the associations would help us to evaluate urban forest ecological services and favor urban forest management via landscape regulations. We used Harbin, capital city of the northernmost province in China, as an example and hypothesized that the urban forests had different landscape metrics among different forest types, administrative districts, and urban-rural gradients, and these differences were closely associated with forest carbon sequestration in the biomass and soils.

Methods

We extracted the urban forest tree coverage area on the basis of 2 GF-1 remote sensing images and object-oriented based classification method. The analysis o

SUBMITTER: Lv H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6211268 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature