Abstract:Taking the 150 regiment of Shihezi region in Xinjiang as an example,the oasis landscape patterns were analyzed.The results show that some pattern indexes such as dominance,fractal dimension,and fragment index increased while others including evenness,contagion,patches elongation,and diversity declined.Three conclusions were drawn from such changes:(1)From 1982 to 1995,the study area had been more and more controlled by a few patch type,(2)The patch shape was changing toward geometrical regularity and simp...