Land Use Effects on Landscape Diversity in Rotected Areas

Abstract

Landscape diversity and ecological significance of diversity are discussed in this paper. Landscape diversity is referred composition, structure and function of landscape elements.

Landscape composition and landscape structure refers not only to number of different patch types, patch size, and patch shape within a landscape mosaic, but also to the spatial arrangement of different patch types and the connectivity and connectedness of these patches. Landscape diversity is composed of patch diversity, landscape type diversity and pattern diversity.

This study presents backgrounds of land use and landscape diversity on protected areas within the context of “patch diversity” in Turkey. The aim of this study is to investigate the landscape fragmentation in the case study of the Kastamonu-Bartın Küre Mountains National Park (KMNP).