Spatiotemporal characteristics, patterns, and causes of land-use changes in China since the late 1980s

Liu, Jiyuan; Kuang, Wenhui; Zhang, Zengxiang; Xu, Xinliang; Qin, Yuanwei; Jia, Ning; Wan-cun, Zhou; Zhang, Shuwen; Li, Rendong; C, Yan; Wu, Shanshan; Shi, Xuezheng; Jiang, Nan; Yu, Dongsheng; Pan, Xinfu; Chi, Wenfeng

doi:10.1007/s11442-014-1082-6

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“…The driving forces of LUCC are diverse and scale-dependent, among which a wide variety of socio-economic and physical factors have been identified. Socio-economic factors include economic development (Liu et al, 2014a), population growth (Liu et al, 2005), policy regulation (Xie et al, 2005), urbanization , land use management (Yu et al, 2011), advances of science and technology (Hai et al, 2005), road construction (Liang et al, 2014), and enhancement of environmental awareness (Fan et al, 2012). Physical factors include climatic change (Gao et al, 2006;Song et al, 2009), geomorphological processes (Wang et al, 2005a), water availability (Zhang et al, 2006), and land-ocean interactions .…”

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Integrated studies of physical geography in China: Review and prospects

Pan

2016

J. Geogr. Sci.

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Modern physical geography in China grew from Chinese traditional geography and has been profoundly influenced by the geographical disciplines of Euro-America and Russia. Since the 1950s, integrated studies of physical geography in China have made remarkable progress in the fields of comprehensive physical geographical regionalization, land studies, landscape ecology, and land surface geographical processes. During the past few decades, under the background of global change and rapid socio-economic transformation, a series of environmental and resources problems have boomed in China. To solve these problems and promote the development of integrated studies of physical geography, the following issues were proposed as research priorities: (1) coupling of land surface patterns and processes; (2) integrated research on regional responses and adaptation to global change; (3) analysis of human dimensions of the earth system; (4) ecosystem service research from a geographical perspective; (5) integration of multi-source data and model development; (6) integrated studies on unique geographical units; and (7) important global issues and relevant international programs.

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Section: Land Studiesmentioning

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Integrated studies of physical geography in China: Review and prospects

Pan

2016

J. Geogr. Sci.

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“…Disturbance values for regions such as East China, and parts of North and South China showed a relatively large increase, with parts of these areas, especially metropolitan residential areas, also showing a trend of high increase. During 2000-2010, China's eastern coastal provinces were subjected to a new round of urban expansion (Liu et al, 2014a), resulting in a greater increase in the disturbance level compared with the period from 1990-2000. Metropolitan areas showed a similar high increase trend.…”

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“…Built-up land areas have rapidly expanded, mainly in eastern China, and have gradually spread to Central and Western China. Woodland first decreased and then increased, while grassland has continued to decrease (Li et al, 2010;Liu et al, 2014a). The purpose of this paper is to assess the disturbance impacts of land use changes between 1990 and 2010 on different categories of biodiversity conservation priority areas at national and regional scales by constructing an Ecosystem Comprehensive Anthropogenic Disturbance Index (ECADI).…”

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Disturbance impacts of land use change on biodiversity conservation priority areas across China: 1990–2010

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Land use change is one of the main drivers of biodiversity loss. In the last 20 years, China's land use pattern has undergone profound changes. This study constructs an Ecosystem Comprehensive Anthropogenic Disturbance Index (ECADI) to assess disturbance impacts of land use change between 1990 and 2010 on biodiversity conservation priority areas at national and regional scales. Four levels of biodiversity conservation areas were categorized: generally important areas, moderately important areas, important areas, and very important areas. The results indicated a higher ECADI value in 2010 in Central and Eastern China than in Western China, and the values of the moderately important, important and very important regions were lower than the average value of the whole country at all levels. Notably, in recent 20 years, the change extent of ECADI values in Central and Eastern China were much greater compared with that in Western China, and ECADI values in the moderately important, important and very important biodiversity conservation areas all showed increasing trends, with the increasing extent lower than that of whole China at all levels. Due to human activities such as urbanization in Eastern China and cropland reclamation in Northeast China and Xinjiang, ECADI values showed a medium increase trend (the change rate was about 1%-5% in 10 years), which indicated the need for more conservation efforts in those regions. However, ECADI values in the Loess Plateau presented a low decline trend (the change rate was about -1% to -0.1% in 10 years) after 2000 because of the obvious effectiveness of Green for Grain Project. Furthermore, the variation was negligible in the Tibetan Plateau.

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“…The classification of land cover in 2010 has an overall accuracy of 86 % and is based on Landsat TM/ETM ? images (Liu et al 2014). The land cover types include evergreen coniferous forest, evergreen broadleaf forests, deciduous coniferous forest, deciduous broadleaf forest, mixed forest, scrublands, grassland, wetland, cropland, built land, nival area, desert and bare rock, and water area.…”

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Scenarios of land cover in Karst area of Southwestern China

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The method of surface modeling of land cover scenarios (SMLCS) has been improved to simulate the scenarios of land cover in the karst areas of southwestern China. On the basis of the observation monthly climatic data collected from 782 weather stations of China during the period from 1981 to 2010, the climatic scenarios data of RCP26, RCP45 and RCP85 scenarios released by CMIP5, and the land cover current data of China in 2010, the land cover scenarios of southwestern China were respectively simulated. The average total accuracy and Kappa index of SMLCS are 90.25 and 87.96 %, respectively. The results show that there would be a very apparent similar variety on the spatial distribution pattern of land cover in the karst areas of southwestern China under all the three scenarios during the period from 2010 to 2100, but there would have the different change rate. In general, the change rate of land cover type under RCP85 scenario would be the fastest, then under RCP45 scenario, and under RCP26 would be the slowest. From 2010 to 2100, deciduous coniferous forest, deciduous broadleaf forest, grassland, cropland, nival area, and desert and bare rock would have a gradual decrease trend, while evergreen coniferous forest, evergreen broadleaf forests, mixed forest, scrublands, wetlands, construction built-up land, and water bodies body would gradually increase in karst areas of southwestern China, in which wetland would have the fastest increase rate (5.28 % per decade on average), and desert and bare rock would decrease with the fastest rate (2.34 % per decade on average).Keywords Surface modeling of land cover scenarios (SMLCS) Á Land cover Á Scenarios Á Karst areas of Southwestern China

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Spatiotemporal characteristics, patterns, and causes of land-use changes in China since the late 1980s

Cited by 1,449 publications

References 11 publications

Integrated studies of physical geography in China: Review and prospects

Integrated studies of physical geography in China: Review and prospects

Disturbance impacts of land use change on biodiversity conservation priority areas across China: 1990–2010

Scenarios of land cover in Karst area of Southwestern China

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