jailcd2015044: Study on Pond Changes of Land Use in Taiwan Taoyuan City

Abstract

Most of ponds in Taiwan are distributed at Taoyuan Plateau area which were created in the old time for irrigation purpose and have become unique landscape today. However, with the shifting of Taoyuan’s urban development center and the land-develop orientated city expansion plan, Taoyuan’s ponds are frequently destroyed and resulted in the change of land use. Previous researches have shown that the reasons for the disappearance of pond include the deterioration of water quality, disappearance of water supply source, development of construction land and others. Recent years’ climate change and migration of human population also potentially contribute to the reasons of pond disappearance. Exploring the causes for the disappearance of pond and finding the impacting factors can be helpful for environment preservation, ecosystem conservation and the adaptation to climate change. Based on the pond’s external driving forces, correlation analysis was used to explore the relationship between the influential factors and the changing area of pond. The research results can be use to model the changing land use of pond landscape to serve as a reference for Taoyuan County’s pond resource planning and ecological conservation.