The Context of Changes for Land Resources Ecosystem in Urban Wild Area: Case Study of Wuhan City’s Metropolitan Area, People's Republic of China in 1999 - 2013

Abstract

Natural protection and ecosystem conservation of a city is current issues in globalization and industrialization. This article analyzes Wuhan city’s satellite images between 3 September 1999 to 9 September 2013 capture by Landsat 7 from Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Science. Moreover, they study urban wild area changes in Wuhan city’s metropolitan area and they create land ecological interactions: land symbiosis and land antagonism: as ecological comparator. From the research, they found that size of urban wild area in Wuhan city’s metropolitan area: Hankou zone, Hanyang zone and Wuchang zone: reduced between 3 September 1999 to 9 September 2013. Besides, size of urban area increased in this period and it was inversely proportion with each other. Furthermore, qualities of urban wild areas were also changes in this period.  All information show that land ecological interactions between urban wild area and urban area in Wuhan city’s metropolitan area case is land antagonism because urbanization of Wuhan city’s metropolitan area has negative impact with urban wild area’s ecosystem.

Keywords: urban wild, Wuhan city, land ecology, land resources management, urban management, urban ecology, urban study, ecological urban informatics and remote sensing.