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- - The study focuses on land use and land cover (LULC) changes on the Loess Plateau, aiming to understand these changes over time and their drivers, particularly natural factors and human activities.
- - Findings reveal a decline in cropland, grassland, and bare land, while woodland and built-up areas have increased, with a significant shift occurring around the year 2000.
- - Key factors influencing these changes include temperature, precipitation, and human interventions, especially projects aimed at converting farmland back to forest and grassland, which are crucial for the area's sustainable development.
Article Abstract
Exploring land use/cover (LULC) change is essential for the sustainable development of ecologically fragile areas. The main objective of this study was to clarify the characteristics and differences in the spatiotemporal changes of LULC on the Loess Plateau (LP) based on the transfer matrix and land use dynamics and to quantitatively describe the impact of natural factors on LULC using a geodetector. The results indicated that the overall LULC change in the LP was characterized by a decrease in the area of cropland, grassland, and bare land, and an increase in the area of woodland and built-up land. This trend shows a clear phase-change characteristic around 2000. LULC changes were primarily affected by human activities in the southeastern agricultural region. The project of returning farmland to forest and grassland had a great impact on LULC change in the central region. Vegetation was sensitive to temperature and precipitation, and the impact of LULC change was significantly higher than that in the humid region in the northwest arid region. NDVI, PRE, and TEM were determined to be the main contributors to LULC changes in the LP. These results provide a scientific basis for the sustainable development of LP.
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| http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11455888 | PMC |
| http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-73945-0 | DOI Listing |
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