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Journal of Desert Research ›› 2021, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (5): 210-218.DOI: 10.7522/j.issn.1000-694X.2021.00073

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Land cover type change characteristics and driving factors in Hetao oasis

Liping Liu1(), Liangxu Liu2,4(), Jie Lian3, Jiannan Lu2, Guolin Wang5   

  1. 1.Hetao University,Bayannur 015000,Inner Mongolia,China
    2.Urat Desert-grassland Research Station /, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources,Chinese Acdemy of Sciences,Lanzhou 730000,China
    3.Naiman Desertification Research Station, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources,Chinese Acdemy of Sciences,Lanzhou 730000,China
    4.State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology,Institute of Earth Environment,Urad Rear Banner,Xi’an 710000,China
    5.National Nature Reserve Management Station of Haloxylon Forest and Mongolia Wild Donkey in Urad Rear Banner,Bayannur 015000,Inner Mongolia,China
  • Received:2021-03-16 Revised:2021-05-24 Online:2021-09-20 Published:2021-09-23
  • Contact: Liangxu Liu

Abstract:

Land use change is one of the driving forces of land cover change and has an important impact on the structure and function of the desert-oasis ecosystems. Taking Urad Rear Banner and Urad Middle Banner (two counties) located in the northern part of Yin Mountain as well as Wuyuan county and Hanggin Rear Banner right to the south of Yin mountains as research region, and the statistical data in this region, the relation among the annual precipitation, population, livestock number, and land use cover have been analyzed, with the interpretation data of the satellite images in 1987 and 2015. The results showed that cropland was increased, grassland decreased, and the planted woodland decreased too and there are significant relationships between population and livestock number and cropland, and the relationship between the three before with annual precipitation is not significant, the best fitting equations are respectively y=1.2407x-235428 and y=2613.3e1E-05x. This research could supply a solid data and theoretical support to the sustainable land use and high-quality development of the Hetao section of the Yellow River in Inner-Mongolia.

Key words: land use, Hetao Plain, cultivated land change, curve fitting

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