DEPICTING ECOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES THROUGH LANDSCAPE INDICATOR APPROACH

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Water Management and Sustainable Eco-system- S17

DEPICTING ECOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES THROUGH LANDSCAPE INDICATOR APPROACH

Sangitarani Nayak S K Srivastava Dr R N Sankhua Sandhyarani Sahoo


Objectives

 Patch analysis of the landscape of PCMC FOUR INDICATORS:  Landscape characteristics (% forest cover)  Human stresses (population change & road/stream crossings)  Riparian characteristics (%crop land within 30m of streams)  Physical attributes (elev. range)


ATTILA - interface with GIS

character istics Metrics

General and special listed tool


METHODOLOGY Aster DEM

Digital data

Toposheet

Geo Referencing

ATTILA Avenue run

Landscape Characteristics

Riparian Characteristics

Human Stressor

Physical Charcteristics

Analysis

Final Result


INDICES FOR LANDSCAPE


LANDSCAPE CHARACTERISTICS


PARAMETERS OF LANDSCAPE

% of stream length adjacent Ragc – to cropland Ragp to pasture Ragt - to all agricultural use Rbar - to barren

Landscape Characteristics AgpSL - Agri pasture on steep slopes

Rfor - to forest

AgtSL - Total agri LU on steep slopes

Rurb - to urban

Usr1SL - User defined class on steep

Rusr1 - to user defined class

slopes

Rwetl - to wetland Rnat - to all natural land use Rhum - % of stream length adjacent to all human land use


METRICS

Land Cover Proportion : Pfor = forest area/ (total area − area of water), or % of terrestrial area that has forest cover.

Diversity Shannon−Wiener (H) H= -∑ Pi * ln Pi Shannon-Wiener (H’)

Slope Metrics- Amount of agriculture on steep slopes –an indicator of water quality Diversity Metrics - quantify landscape composition Patch Metrics - generated for forest cover & give an indication of forest health

Simpson (C) C= 1- ∑ Pi2 Simple (S) S=m m = number of diff land cover types Pi = proportion of land cover type i


RIPARIAN CHARACTERISTICS


HUMAN CHARACTERISTICS

P_LOAD - Phosphorus loading N_LOAD - Nitrogen loading POPDENS – Pop. density POPCHG - Change in total population PCTIA_LC - Impervious cover, based on land use RDDENS* - Road density by road class RDLEN* - Total road length by class STXRD* - No of road/stream crossings by road class PCTIA_RD - %of imp cover, based on road density STPRD* - Length of roads in close proximity to streams (user defined distance) by class


PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS PRCPRNG - Precipitation range PRCPMIN – Min precipitation PRCPMAX – Max precipitation PRCPMEAN - Avg precipitation PRCPSTD- SD of precipitation ELEVRNG - Elev range ELEVMIN - Min elevation ELEVMAX – Max elevation ELEVMEAN - Avg elevation ELEVSTD - Std dev of elevation SITE_ELEV - Elev at point locations SLPRNG - Slope range SLPMIN - Min slope SLPMAX – Max slope SLPMEAN - Avg slope SLPSTD - Std deviation of slope STRMDENS* - Stream density STRMLEN* - Total stream length


GRID Z VALUES AT POINTS


INTERSECTION CHARACTERISTICS AT POINTS


OUTCOMES OF THE STUDY CLASS_NAME

SHAPE_LE_1

AREA

PERIMETER

Water

58004.762

1311061.18

58004.76

Residential

1884033.08

58924531.01

1884033.08

Other Agri

1201268.520

17597536.79

1201268.52

Cropland

3348653.458

56502937.31

3348653.45

Forest

611895.851

8452367.66

611895.85

Scrubland

942408.591

27042895.61

942408.59


INDEX RESULTS Name

N_INDEX

N_INDEX_A

PFOR

PFOR_A

PSHRB

Bhosari

18.67

5820400.0

3.57

1113600.

15.10

Chinchwad

18.24

6954000.0

9.36

3568100.

8.88

Dehu rd

41.39

15840800.0

3.98

1525400.

37.41

Military area

88.23

289400.0

5.30

17400.0

82.92

Pimpri

7.44

1748400.0

2.15

505200.0

5.29

Nigdi

11.91

4134400.0

4.23

1467100.0

7.68

And many more indices‌. CONCLUSION landscape indicators/metrics - quantitative measurements of env/ecosystem vulnerability for a watershed can be analyzed.


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