Study On Vegetation Landscape Ecology In The Area Of Wutai Mountain

Wutai Mountain is a part of Taihang Ranges and one of the four Buddhist shrines of China. It lies in North Shanxi and between (?) (N) 38°27' -39°15' ,λ(E) 112°48' -113°55 . It is also a touring region and is vulnerable to human activities. For this reason, it is an important place for the protection and research of biodiversity.This thesis was made of a systematic analysis to the vegetation landscape elements and patches. With the help of Mapinfo, the vegetation map was processed and the data of the eleven vegetation landscape elements were obtained. After the analysis, we got the following results: the zonal vegetation landscape is the warm temperate deciduous broad-leaved forest landscape. However, due to the influence of latitude, the conditions of light and warmth, the gradient and the aspect of slope, the area of woodland is small. At present, the main vegetation landscape elements are grasslands and scrublands. The conditions of light and warmth are the key factors in determining the elements and their distribution in this area.The diversity of landscape elements in this area is rather low while the dominance rather high. It is the key reason for the low diversity that the difference in areas of elements is rather great and only a few elements are dominant.The shape index tends to increase with growth of the patch area. The shape indices of the forest and the farm landscape between 1.10 and 1.30 and the shapes of them are close to rotundity. However, the shape indices of the herbage and the shrub landscape of temperate zone between 1.30 and 3.00 and the shapes of them are long and narrow.The fractal dimension of the Quercus Liaotungensis, the grassland and the shrub landscape elements in Wutai Mountain is rather low, which shows that the Quercus Liaotungensis, the grassland and the shrub landscape are interfered quite little by human activities.Summarily, we can conclude that the Wutai Mountain is a preferable site for ecological tour, but the rather big difference between the areas of each landscape element, the quite low diversity, the rather high degree of dominance as well as the influence of human activities are all the problems to be solved in the future management of the Wutai Mountain.