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Journal of Desert Research ›› 2020, Vol. 40 ›› Issue (6): 82-90.DOI: 10.7522/j.issn.1000-694X.2020.00074

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Sandy land change from 1980 to 2015 in Alxa League, China and its driving factors

Yabin Chang1(), Rui Zhu1(), Shengchun Xiao2, Yapei Li1   

  1. 1.Faculty of Geomatics / National-Local Joint Engineering Research Center of Technologies and Applications for National Geographic State Monitoring / Gansu Provincial Engineering Laboratory for National Geographic State Monitoring,Lanzhou Jiaotong University,Lanzhou 730000,China
    2.Key Laboratory of Ecohydrology of Inland River Basin,Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Lanzhou 730000,China
  • Received:2020-03-19 Revised:2020-07-07 Online:2020-12-09 Published:2020-12-09
  • Contact: Rui Zhu

Abstract:

Land desertification is an important eco-environment problem in arid and semi-arid regions. It is the basis of preventing and controlling land desertification to explore the influencing factors of land desertification and clarify its driving mechanism. In this paper, we assessed spatial distribution characteristics of sandy land by analysis of land use change from 1980 to 2015 in the Alxa League, and analyzed the natural and human driving factors of sandy land distribution by Geodetector, and explored the interaction between the driving factors, and quantitatively described the degree of the driving factors influence on the sand distribution in the Alxa League. At the same time, the influence of driving factors on sandy land transformation in Alxa League from 2000 to 2015 was detected. The results show that: (1) The sandy land first increased before 2000 and then decreased. (2) The influence of natural factors affecting the spatial distribution of sandy land are greater than human factors, and the independent influence of each driving factor is less than the interaction between the two factors. (3) The area with desertification probability greater than 50% was desertification risk area. (4) From 2000 to 2015, the single factor influence of the driving factors of the transformation of sandy land was slightly dominated by human factors, but the transformation of sandy land was the result of the joint action of human and natural factors.

Key words: sandy land, driving factor, GeoDetector, Alxa League, land use change

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