An Assessment of Human versus Climatic Impacts on Jing River Basin, Loess Plateau, China

Table 1

Regional landscape characteristics in this study.

Category	Number	Code	Code description
Fragmentation metric	1	PD	Patch density
	2	ED	Edge density
	3	LSI	Landscape shape index
Shape metric	4	PARA	Perimeter to area ratio
	5	FI	Fragmentation index
	6	FRAC	Fractal distribution index
	7	PAFRAC	Perimeter-area fractal dimension
	8	CONTAG	Contagion index
Diversity metric	9	SHDI	Shannon’s diversity index
	10	MSIDI	Modified Simpson’s Diversity index
	11	SHEI	Shannon’s evenness index
	12	MSIEI	Modified Simpson’s Evenness index