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NDVI-Based Analysis of the Influence of Climate Changes and Human Activities on Vegetation Variation on Hainan Island

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The spatiotemporal characteristics of vegetation variation on Hainan Island were explored with normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) data from 2001 to 2016 on the basis of a regression-analysis method. The impact of climatic factors and human activities on vegetation variation was assessed in different climate regions by residual analysis. Our study indicated that vegetation regions with significant improvement were primarily located in the coastal part of the semi-arid, central semi-humid, central mountainous humid, and parts of the humid regions. More serious vegetation degradation was observed in the northern part of the semi-humid region, eastern parts of the humid region, and the southern semi-arid and semi-humid regions. The relationship of NDVI with precipitation was stronger than that with temperature in the humid and semi-arid regions, and drought was the critical factor influencing vegetation changes in the semi-arid region due to comprehensive actions of rising temperature and declining rainfall. The findings of residual analysis highlighted that the degradation of vegetation was mainly triggered by anthropogenic factors: the rapid development of urbanization in the northern part of the semi-humid, and the southern semi-arid and semi-humid regions, and excessive aquaculture in the eastern parts of the humid region. The results are expected to provide an effective foundation of formulating environmental and ecological sustainability policies on Hainan Island.

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Acknowledgements

We thank NASA for providing the original MODIS NDVI data, and we express our sincere gratitude to the Meteorological Data Sharing Service System of China for sharing the climatic data. We would also like to acknowledge the national ecological-system and ecological-function-pattern database of China (http://www.ecosystem.csdb.cn/) for the provision of data on different vegetation types. We are also grateful to the editors and anonymous reviewers who provided valuable suggestions and comments for improving our manuscript.

Funding

This paper was funded by the Hainan Provincial Key Laboratory of Practical Research on Tropical Crops Information Technology, China; the Central Public-interest Scientific Institution Basal Research Fund for Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences (1630072020006, 1630072017004. and 1630072019001); and the Natural Science Foundation of Hainan, China (620MS086, 417238, 619MS100, 419QN280).

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  1. Institute of Scientific and Technical Information, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Haikou, 571000, People’s Republic of China

    Hongxia Luo, Shengpei Dai, Maofen Li, Enping Liu, Yuping Li & Zhenghui Xie

  2. Key Laboratory of Practical Tropical Crop Information Technology in Hainan, Haikou, 571000, People’s Republic of China

    Hongxia Luo, Shengpei Dai, Maofen Li, Enping Liu, Yuping Li & Zhenghui Xie

  3. Key Laboratory of Agricultural Remote Sensing, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Beijing, 10010, People’s Republic of China

    Hongxia Luo & Shengpei Dai

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Luo, H., Dai, S., Li, M. et al. NDVI-Based Analysis of the Influence of Climate Changes and Human Activities on Vegetation Variation on Hainan Island. J Indian Soc Remote Sens 49, 1755–1767 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12524-021-01357-y

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