Four decades of wetland changes of the largest freshwater lake in China: Possible linkage to the Three Gorges Dam?

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Journal:REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Key Words:Poyang Lake; Wetland; Three Gorges Dam; Wetland vegetation; Water level; Landsat; Remote sensing

Abstract:Wetlands provide important ecosystem functions for water alteration and conservation of bio-diversity, yet they are vulnerable to both human activities and climate changes. Using four decades of Landsat and HJ-1A/1B satellites observations and recently developed classification algorithms, long-term wetland changes in Poyang Lake, the largest freshwater lake of China, have been investigated in this study. In dry seasons, while the transitions from mudflat to vegetation and vice versa were comparable before 2001, vegetation area increased by 620.8 km(2) (16.6% of the lake area) between 2001 and

All the Authors:Feng, Lian;Han, Xingxing;Hu, Chuanmin; Chen, Xiaoling

First Author:Feng, Lian

Indexed by:Applied Research

Correspondence Author:Feng, Lian

Volume:176

Page Number:43-55

ISSN No.:0034-4257

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