The changes of lakes directly affect the sustainable development of regional ecological environment and social economy. Affected by the environmental changes and human activities, most of the inland lakes globally have suffered from the area shrinkage and wetland degradation. The protection and restoration of lakes have become a hot public issue. In this study, a lake spatial database of Hubei Province (China) is built to analyze the temporal-spatial dynamic change of lakes in Hubei Province from 1974 to 2014, with the analysis models of lake dynamic change rate (LDCR), lake landscape shape in...
