Agricultural Land Fragmentation at Urban Fringes: An Application of Urban-To-Rural Gradient Analysis in Adelaide

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dc.contributor.authorWadduwage, Suranga
dc.contributor.authorMillington, Andrew
dc.contributor.authorCrossman, Neville David
dc.contributor.authorSandhu, Harpinder
dc.date.accessioned2017-04-23T23:22:21Z
dc.date.available2017-04-23T23:22:21Z
dc.date.issued2017-04-16
dc.descriptionThis is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. (CC BY 4.0).en
dc.description.abstractOne of the major consequences of expansive urban growth is the degradation and loss of productive agricultural land and agroecosystem functions. Four landscape metrics—Percentage of Land (PLAND), Mean Parcel Size (MPS), Parcel Density (PD), and Modified Simpson’s Diversity Index (MSDI)—were calculated for 1 km × 1 km cells along three 50 km-long transects that extend out from the Adelaide CBD, in order to analyze variations in landscape structures. Each transect has different land uses beyond the built-up area, and they differ in topography, soils, and rates of urban expansion. Our new findings are that zones of agricultural land fragmentation can be identified by the relationships between MPS and PD, that these occur in areas where PD ranges from 7 and 35, and that these occur regardless of distance along the transect, land use, topography, soils, or rates of urban growth. This suggests a geometry of fragmentation that may be consistent, and indicates that quantification of both land use and land-use change in zones of fragmentation is potentially important in planning.en
dc.identifier.citationWadduwage, S.; Millington, A.; Crossman, N.D.; Sandhu, H. Agricultural Land Fragmentation at Urban Fringes: An Application of Urban-To-Rural Gradient Analysis in Adelaide. Land 2017, 6, 28.en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.3390/land6020028en
dc.identifier.issn2073-445X
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2328/37180
dc.language.isoen
dc.oaire.license.condition.licenseCC-BY
dc.publisherMDPIen
dc.rights© 2017 by the authors.en
dc.rights.holderthe authors.en
dc.subjecturban-to-rural gradientsen
dc.subjectagricultural land-useen
dc.subjectland fragmentationen
dc.subjecturban fringeen
dc.subjectMean Parcel Sizeen
dc.subjectParcel Densityen
dc.titleAgricultural Land Fragmentation at Urban Fringes: An Application of Urban-To-Rural Gradient Analysis in Adelaideen
dc.typeArticleen
local.contributor.authorOrcidLookupMillington, Andrew: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7153-8236
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