A Method for Alpine Wetland Delineation and Features of Border: Zoigê Plateau, China

作     者：ZHENG Yaomin NIU Zhenguo GONG Peng LI Mengna HU Lile WANG Lei YANG Yuxiang GU Hai-jun MU Jinrong DOU Gejia XUE Hui WANG Lin LI Hua DOU Gejie DANG Zhicairang 

作者机构：State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing ScienceInstitute of Remote Sensing and Digital EarthChinese Academy of SciencesBeijing 100101China Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Earth System ModelingCenter for Earth System ScienceInstitute for Global Change StudiesTsinghua UniversityBeijing 100084China Joint Center for Global Change StudiesCollege of Global Change and Earth System Science(GCESS)Beo'ing Normal UniversityBeijing 100875China Chinese Research Academy of Environmental SciencesBeijing 100012China World-Wide Fund for Nature(China)Beijing 100006China Wildlife Management Bureau of Gansu ProvinceLanzhou 730050China Wetland Management Center of Sichuang ProvinceChengdu 610081China Gansu Gahai-Zecha National Reserve AdministrationLuqu CountyGansu Province 747200China Sichuan Zoige Wetland National Reserve AdministrationZoige CountySichuang Province 624500China Gansu First Meander of Yellow River National Reserve AdministrationMaqu CountyGansu Province 747300China 

出 版 物：《Chinese Geographical Science》 (中国地理科学（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2017年第27卷第5期

页      面：784-799页

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学科分类：0303[法学-社会学] 07[理学] 0708[理学-地球物理学] 0705[理学-地理学] 070501[理学-自然地理学] 0813[工学-建筑学] 0704[理学-天文学] 0833[工学-城乡规划学] 

基　　金：Under the auspices of National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.41201445,41103041) National Science and Technology Support Program(No.2012BAJ24B01) National High Technology Research and Development Program of China(No.2009AA12200307) 

主　　题：alpine wetland delineation ecological methods remote sensing Zoige Plateau 

摘      要：Accurate wetland delineation is the basis of wetland definition and mapping, and is of great importance for wetland management and research. The Zoige Plateau on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau was used as a research site for research on alpine wetland delineation. Several studies have analyzed the spatiotemporal pattern and dynamics of these alpine wetlands, but none have addressed the issues of wetland boundaries. The objective of this work was to discriminate the upper boundaries of alpine wetlands by coupling ecological methods and satellite observations. The combination of Landsat 8 images and supervised classification was an effective method for rapid identification of alpine wetlands in the Zoig6 Plateau. Wet meadow was relatively stable compared with hydric soils and wetland hydrology and could be used as a primary indicator for discriminating the upper boundaries of alpine wetlands. A slope of less than 4.5° could be used as the threshold value for wetland delineation. The normalized difference vegetation index （NDVI） in 434 field sites showed that a threshold value of 0.3 could distinguish grasslands from emergent marsh and wet meadow in September. The median normalized difference water index （NDWI） of emergent marsh remained more stable than that of wet meadow and grasslands during the period from September until July of the following year. The index of mean density in wet meadow zones was higher than the emergent and upland zones. Over twice the number of species occurred in the wet meadow zone compared with the emergent zone, and close to the value of upland zone. Alpine wetlands in the three reserves in 2014 covered 1175.19 kin2 with a classification accuracy of 75.6%. The combination of ecological methods and remote sensing technology will play an important role in wetland delineation at medium and small scales. The correct differentiation between wet meadow and grasslands is the key to improving the accuracy of future wetland delineation.