| Yazarlar |
Abdullah Emin Akay
Bursa Teknik Üniversitesi, Türkiye |
Prof. Dr. Fatih SİVRİKAYA
Kahramanmaraş Sütçü İmam Üniversitesi, Türkiye |
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Sercan Gülci
Kahramanmaraş Sütçü İmam Üniversitesi, Türkiye |
| Özet |
| Riparian forests adjacent to surface water are important transitional zones which maintain and enrich biodiversity and ensure the sustainability in a forest ecosystem. Also, riparian forests maintain water quality, reduce sediment delivery, enhance habitat areas for aquatic life and wildlife, and provide ecological corridors between the upland and the downstream. However, the riparian ecosystems have been degraded mainly due to human development, forest operations, and agricultural activities. In order to evaluate the impacts of these factors on riparian forests, it is necessary to estimate trends in forest cover changes. This study aims to analyze riparian forest cover changes along the Firniz River located in Mediterranean city of Kahramanmaras in Turkey. Changes in riparian forest cover from 1989 to 2010 have been determined by implementing supervised classification method on a series of Landsat TM imagery of the study area. The results indicated that the classification process applied on 1989 and 2010 images provided overall accuracy of 80.08 and 75 %, respectively. It was found that the most common land use class within the riparian zone was productive forest, followed by degraded forest, agricultural areas, and other land use classes. The results also indicated that the areas of degraded forest and forest openings increased, while productive forest and agricultural areas decreased between the years of 1989 and 2010. The amount of agricultural areas decreased due to the reduction in the population of rural people. According to these results, it can be concluded that special forest management and operation techniques should be implemented to restore the forest ecosystem in riparian areas. © 2013 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht. |
| Anahtar Kelimeler |
| Forest cover changes | GIS | Mediterranean forest | Remote sensing | Riparian forests |
| Makale Türü | Özgün Makale |
| Makale Alt Türü | SSCI, AHCI, SCI, SCI-Exp dergilerinde yayımlanan tam makale |
| Dergi Adı | ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT |
| Dergi ISSN | 0167-6369 |
| Dergi Tarandığı Indeksler | SCI-Exp, SCOPUS, Biological Abstracts, Biosis Previews, Biosis Selective Coverage Shared, Curation, Current Contents Agriculture Biology & Environmental Sciences, Essential Science Indicators, Reference Master, Sophia, Zoological Record |
| Makale Dili | İngilizce |
| Basım Tarihi | 05-2014 |
| Cilt No | 186 |
| Sayı | 5 |
| Sayfalar | 2741 / 2747 |
| Doi Numarası | 10.1007/s10661-013-3575-7 |
| Makale Linki | http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10661-013-3575-7 |
| Atıf Sayıları | |
| WoS | 8 |
| SCOPUS | 8 |
| Google Scholar | 22 |
