HUBEI AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES ›› 2023, Vol. 62 ›› Issue (4): 12-19.doi: 10.14088/j.cnki.issn0439-8114.2023.04.003

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Analysis of land-use change and driving factors in two decades before and after returning farmland to forest in Yan’an City

WANG Xiao-fei, SUN Zhi-hui, LIU Zhi-chao, CAO Xue-mei   

  1. Yan’an Meteorological Bureau, Yan’an 716000, Shaanxi, China
  • Received:2021-12-22 Online:2023-04-25 Published:2023-05-12

Abstract: Using 7 periods of remote sensing data of land use types from 1980 to 2020 and the data of precipitation, temperature, population and GDP from 1981 to 2020, the changes of the spatial pattern of national land and its response to climate change before and after the reforestation of Yan’an City were analyzed by using mathematical statistics and transfer matrix. The results showed that before the grain for green, under the dual influence of drought and population increase, grass seed land was destroyed and the area of cultivated land had increased by 327.24 km2 in Yan’an City. And after the grain for green, the cultivated land decreased by 2 421.84 km2. The decrease period was mainly concentrated from 2000 to 2010, accounting for 94.1% of the reduction area of the cultivated land. The cultivated land was mainly converted into forest and grass land. The area of forest land in Yan’an increased by 923.43 km2, with the most obvious change in other forest land, accounting for 65.9% of the increasing area of forest land, followed by shrubland, the increasing area accounting for 25.2%. The area of grassland in Yan’an City increased by 1 362.02 km2 after the grain for green, with 338.63, 1 186.41 km2 of high and medium cover grassland respectively, while low cover grassland remained basically unchanged. After 2000, the increase in precipitation and high temperature in Yan’an City, especially in the northern part of Yan’an City, where annual precipitation reached 520 mm or more, were the main reasons for the formation of woodland and medium and high cover grassland. Land use changes were mainly concentrated in the northern part of Yan’an City, and the area of low-cover grassland in the northern part accounted for 17.1% of the land area of the northern counties and urban areas in 2020, but the ecology was still fragile, and the continued warming and increasing uncertainty of climate seriously restricted the ecological recovery in the northern part of Yan’an City, which needed policy support and continuous attention.

Key words: grain for green, land use, driving factor, Yan’an City

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