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Study on spatial pattern of land-use change in China during 1995–2000

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It is more and more acknowledged that land-use/cover dynamic change has become a key subject urgently to be dealt with in the study of global environmental change. Supported by the Landsat TM digital images, spatial patterns and temporal variation of land-use change during 1995 –2000 are studied in the paper. According to the land-use dynamic degree model, supported by the 1km GRID data of land-use change and the comprehensive characters of physical, economic and social features, a dynamic regionalization of land-use change is designed to disclose the spatial pattern of land-use change processes. Generally speaking, in the traditional agricultural zones, e.g., Huang-Huai-Hai Plains, Yangtze River Delta and Sichuan Basin, the built-up and residential areas occupy a great proportion of arable land, and in the interlock area of farming and pasturing of northern China and the oases agricultural zones, the reclamation of arable land is conspicuously driven by changes of production conditions, economic benefits and climatic conditions. The implementation of “returning arable land into woodland or grassland” policies has won initial success in some areas, but it is too early to say that the trend of deforestation has been effectively reversed across China. In this paper, the division of dynamic regionalization of land-use change is designed, for the sake of revealing the temporal and spatial features of land-use change and laying the foundation for the study of regional scale land-use changes. Moreover, an integrated study, including studies of spatial pattern and temporal process of land-use change, is carried out in this paper, which is an interesting try on the comparative studies of spatial pattern on change process and the change process of spatial pattern of land-use change.

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  1. Institute of Geographic Sciences of Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China

    Jiyuan Liu, Mingliang Liu, Dafang Zhuang & Xiangzheng Deng

  2. Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100101, Beijing, China

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Liu, J., Liu, M., Zhuang, D. et al. Study on spatial pattern of land-use change in China during 1995–2000. Sci. China Ser. D-Earth Sci. 46, 373–384 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1360/03yd9033

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