Land-Use/Landscape Pattern Changes and Related Environmental Driving Forces in a Dong Ethnic Minority Village in Southwestern China

This paper outlines land-use/landscape pattern changes and relationships between land-use change trajectories environmental variables in the Dong ethnic-minority village of Gaoyou southwestern China. In study, landscape metrics were applied to evaluate land use patterns using GeoEye-1 satellite imagery for 2009/2020 drone 2019, redundancy analysis (RDA) was clarify relationship variables. The 10–30% observed across each time sequence indicated rapid development area, resulting increased fragmentation reduced aggregation. findings showed efficient usage resources Gaoyou. Accessibility tended govern characteristics change, with natural influencing type development. results also that farmers responded quickly government subsidies promoting tea camellia plantations, unplanned road construction causing fragmentation, official map content differed from authors’ observations. Accordingly, should make integrated long-term plans villages engage remote-sensor monitoring local change.