Abstract:The study of landscape fragmentation is an important means to reveal regional ecological processes. Using remote sensing data of 1987, 1997, and 2002, some representative quantitative indices of the landscape spatial structure and landscape fragmentation were calculated to investigate the relationship between landscape ecological structure and landscape pattern in Shaanbei Loess Plateau using FRAGSTATS. Through the analysis of the types of fragmented landscape, we found that the main contribution to regio...