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The types of land cover and land use in China are complex and diverse, with significant geographic differentiation. There are five soil-vegetation latitudes from south to north in the eastern monsoon region, three soil-vegetation longitude zones from east to west in the northwest arid zone, and the Qinghai-Tibet alpine region has formed a special soil-vegetation plateau zone. The eastern region includes cultivated forest and urban land; the central region is interlaced land for agriculture, animal husbandry, and forestry; and the western region is animal husbandry, oasis agriculture, and desert land. This chapter describes the types, structures, distribution patterns, and spatio-temporal changes of land cover and land use in China. It provides a basis for understanding the important role and sustainability of China’s land use/cover change in global change research.
1 hm2 = 1 ha; 1 km2 = 100 ha; 1 mu = 0.0667 ha
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Wang, J., Liang, S., Shi, P. (2022). Land Cover and Land Use. In: The Geography of Contemporary China . World Regional Geography Book Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04158-7_6
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