Ecosystem services in peri-urban landscapes: The effects of agricultural landscape change on ecosystem services in Taiwan's western coastal plain

摘要: Abstract Farmland within urban peri-urban areas can be understood as part of a green infrastructure that provides agro-ecosystem services to benefit the population. The growing influence cities on agricultural lands has had significant effects land transformation with an associated loss in services. ecosystem could result increase city's vulnerability climate change. More than one sixth Taiwan's western plain have been converted other uses from 1970 2006. We hypothesize planning guidelines based landscape ecology help plan optimal spatial configuration paddy rice areas. In order study changes areas, this selected appropriate metrics assess composition and for each research sites. This shown because are related fields, by use change optimize configuration, maintained. Guidelines offered manage agroecosystem context