Effect of landscape fragmentation on soil quality and ecosystem services in land use and landform types

This study was carried out to model the ecosystem services, i.e., habitat quality, carbon storage, nutrient export, and soil export using InVEST software quality through integrated index across Shoor River basin, southwestern Iran, as well their relationships landscape metrics Pearson’s correlation ordered least square regression. The interactions between services efficiency, fragmentation were also evaluated ternary analysis. results showed that northern eastern parts of area had more suitability provide service efficiency than southern western while this trend opposite for exports. highest calculated forest's land use ridge/tops landform. exports seen in agriculture rangeland uses, respectively, plain ridge/top landforms, respectively. Statistical analysis confirmed there positive moderate storage no certain export. Moreover, patch density a negative impact on effect largest index, cohesion effective mesh size. findings demonstrated increasing decreased but increased Furthermore, changed under influence dominant landform types sub-basins area.