Forestlands provide timber resources and valuable ecosystem services. To better manage forest landscape and develop policies, it is important to quantify the relationships between the number of forestland patches, patch areas, and landowner numbers. By using integrated analysis of information about the forestlands in 17 counties in Alabama, USA, similar scaling relationships are determined in the forestland patch quantity, areas, and owner numbers across various patch-size classes. Forestlands on individual properties of up to 50 acres cover about 59% of patch number and 21% of total area, encompassing 77% of landowner numbers. In Alabama, few private landowners have more than 500 acres of forestland. Similar relationships between different sizes of forestlands and the accumulated percentages of patch quantity, areas, and landowner numbers exist. These distribution relationships can be described by quadratic and power functions. A significant correlation exists between forestland prices and the exponents of these scaling relationships in forest patch numbers, total areas, and landowner numbers across counties. These results provide a new understanding of the distribution of forestland in Alabama. The implication is that an economic approach (e.g., adjusting forestland prices or taxes) may help to better manage the remaining forest landscape and develop conservation policy in this region that could be used to reduce forest fragmentation.

林地提供木材资源和宝贵的生态系统服务。为了更好地管理森林景观并制定政策，重要的是量化林地数量，斑块面积和土地所有者数量之间的关系。通过对美国阿拉巴马州17个县的林地信息进行综合分析，可以确定不同斑块大小类别的林地斑块数量，面积和所有者数量具有类似的比例关系。拥有多达50英亩土地的林地覆盖了约59％的斑块数和21％的总面积，占地主数的77％。在阿拉巴马州，很少有私人土地所有者拥有超过500英亩的林地。在不同大小的林地与斑块数量，面积和土地所有者数量的累积百分比之间存在相似的关系。这些分布关系可以用二次函数和幂函数来描述。林地价格与这些缩放关系的指数在各县的森林斑块数量，总面积和土地所有者数量之间存在显着的相关性。这些结果提供了对阿拉巴马州林地分布的新认识。这意味着一种经济方法（例如，调整林地价格或税收）可能有助于更好地管理该地区的剩余森林景观并制定可用于减少森林碎片的保护政策。和各县的地主人数。这些结果为阿拉巴马州的林地分布提供了新的认识。这意味着一种经济方法（例如，调整林地价格或税收）可能有助于更好地管理该地区的剩余森林景观，并制定可用于减少森林碎片的保护政策。和各县的地主人数。这些结果为阿拉巴马州的林地分布提供了新的认识。这意味着一种经济方法（例如，调整林地价格或税收）可能有助于更好地管理该地区的剩余森林景观并制定可用于减少森林碎片的保护政策。