금호강 유역 산림의 경관생태적 패턴분석 = An Analysis on Landscape Ecological Pattern of the Geumho River Watershed Forest

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

An artificial disturbance like fragmentation in watershed forest has impacted a sustainability of watershed ecosystem, therefore this research quantified the landscape structure in the Geumho river watershed using landscape indices and GIS. Landscape indices were calculated from the forest distributed maps for 24 subwatersheds. Three common factors, which explained about 85% of the variation in the original data, were extracted by a factor analysis. The fragmentation gradient in forest landscape, which was calculated from the factor scores, was correlated with proportion of urban land (rte. 827, p<0.01, R²=0.685). elevation (r=-0.637, p<0. 01) and slope gradient (r=-0.593, p<0. 01) . The result of the study presented that the methodology and the values of landscape indices to assess the structural patterns of forest landscape for the Geumho river watershed management. Future research will be directed towards the detection of impacts of landscape patterns and their changes on the integrity of watershed environments.