Characteristic analysis and pattern evolution on landscape types in typical compound area of mine agriculture urban in Shanxi Province, China

Abstract

The compound area of mine agriculture urban is a community of resource, economy and society. In this study we took the compound area of mine agriculture urban in Pinglu District, Shuozhou City, Shanxi Province, China as the study object in order to discover the landscape type changing characteristics and pattern and analyze the driving forces from 1986 to 2013. We found that: (1) although farmland was the primary landscape type, construction land had increased obviously and destruction land also increased linearly; (2) cultivated land decreasing was mainly impacted by de-farming, construction occupation and mining destruction; (3) landscape changing types differed remarkably at different period, but generally increased, mainly from bidirectional farmland conversion to the coexistence of bidirectional farmland conversion, farmland to construction land and farmland to destruction land. Lastly, we proposed some management measures to direct landscape type changes.