Scientific solutions for the functional zoning of nature reserves in China

Xuehua Liu and Jihong Li

Ecological Modelling, 2008, vol. 215, issue 1, 237-246

Abstract: Reasonable zoning of the nature reserve (NR) is the key to maintain the reserve's ecological functions for sustainable development. Many zoning designs in the past years were too subjective and lack of scientific contents. The aim of this paper is to find the new approaches for NRs’ functional zoning. We firstly analyzed the practical problems occurred in the functional zoning of giant panda NRs in China. Secondly, a reasonable index system to guide zoning was established for the case study area—Laoxiancheng NR. Finally two new zoning approaches were developed, which were all automatic realization methods based on spatial analysis using GIS.

Keywords: Laoxiancheng nature reserve; Functional zoning; Giant panda; GIS; Habitat suitability assessment; Least-cost distance calculation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (7)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304380008001038
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:ecomod:v:215:y:2008:i:1:p:237-246

DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2008.02.015

Access Statistics for this article

Ecological Modelling is currently edited by Brian D. Fath

More articles in Ecological Modelling from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().