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

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dc.contributor.author Wadduwage, Suranga
dc.contributor.author Millington, Andrew
dc.contributor.author Crossman, Neville David
dc.contributor.author Sandhu, Harpinder
dc.date.accessioned 2017-04-23T23:22:21Z
dc.date.available 2017-04-23T23:22:21Z
dc.date.issued 2017-04-16
dc.description This 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.abstract One 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.citation Wadduwage, 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.doi https://doi.org/10.3390/land6020028 en
dc.identifier.issn 2073-445X
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2328/37180
dc.language.iso en
dc.oaire.license.condition.license CC-BY
dc.publisher MDPI en
dc.rights © 2017 by the authors. en
dc.rights.holder the authors. en
dc.subject urban-to-rural gradients en
dc.subject agricultural land-use en
dc.subject land fragmentation en
dc.subject urban fringe en
dc.subject Mean Parcel Size en
dc.subject Parcel Density en
dc.title Agricultural Land Fragmentation at Urban Fringes: An Application of Urban-To-Rural Gradient Analysis in Adelaide en
dc.type Article en
local.contributor.authorOrcidLookup Millington, Andrew: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7153-8236
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