Landscape conservation and protected areas (case of Dena, Iran)
| العنوان: | Landscape conservation and protected areas (case of Dena, Iran) |
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| المؤلفون: | Sayedeh Alemohammad, Ahmad-Reza Yavari, Bahram Malek-Mohammadi, Esmail Salehi, Mohammad-Javad Amiri |
| المصدر: | Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 194 |
| بيانات النشر: | Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2022. |
| سنة النشر: | 2022 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Conservation of Natural Resources, Anthropogenic Effects, Humans, Biodiversity, General Medicine, Forests, Iran, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Pollution, Ecosystem, Environmental Monitoring, General Environmental Science |
| الوصف: | Inefficient management of protected areas (PAs) is often due to ignoring their surrounding matrix in the baseline studies, especially in wooded landscapes. In Iran, the application of landscape structure studies in protection policies and PA management is not prevalent. In this study, land cover changes in Dena Rural District (including parts of inside and outside Dena PA) have analyzed using the process of the Landsat images along with field survey two times (1989 and 2018). The landscape structural integrity was quantified based on the situation of oak forest land and its alteration. The composition and the configuration of oak forest land were assessed by metrics based on the moving extent of the Persian squirrel, Sciurus anomalus (which is an endangered focal endemic species completely dependent on the oak forest). Alterations of landscape structural integrity were compared for inside and outside Dena PA and at different altitudes. The results show connectivity loss and increased fragmentation of oak remnant patches, but this deforestation is more severe near areas facing direct human impacts and interventions. These are among attributes that are to be considered for zoning PA (such as controlling zone and training/participation zone). At higher altitudes, physical protection and strict control are more effective, while training local communities for stewardship is more essential at lower altitudes for conserving woodland integrity. |
| تدمد: | 1573-2959 0167-6369 |
| الوصول الحر: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::2b35b71b1f6eccbc623ac773d9e4805eTest https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-021-09696-6Test |
| حقوق: | CLOSED |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi.dedup.....2b35b71b1f6eccbc623ac773d9e4805e |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 15732959 01676369 |
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