Natural climate change and human activities are the main driving forces associated with vegetation coverage change. Nanxiong Basin is a key ecosystem-service area at the national level with a dense population and highly representative of red-bed basins, which are considered as fragile ecological units in humid regions. In this study, the authors aimed to determine the trends in vegetation cover change over past two decades and the associated driving forces in this study area. The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) of 2000-2015, derived from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) remote sensing dataset along with the application of statistical methods and GIS (geographic information system) techniques were used to quantify vegetation cover change. The results show that human-induced factors can explain most variations at sites with significant cover change. That is to say that human activities are the main drivers of vegetation dynamics in this study area, ...which shows a significant reduction trend in vegetation cover during the industrialization and urbanization processes of the study period and noticeable recovery trend in 2000-2015 under the plantation and enclosed forest policy.
TY - JOUR
AU - Yan, Luobin
AU - He, Ruixiang
AU - Kašanin-Grubin, Milica
AU - Luo, Gusong
AU - Peng, Hua
AU - Qiu, Jianxiu
PY - 2017
UR - http://cer.ihtm.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/2224
AB - Natural climate change and human activities are the main driving forces associated with vegetation coverage change. Nanxiong Basin is a key ecosystem-service area at the national level with a dense population and highly representative of red-bed basins, which are considered as fragile ecological units in humid regions. In this study, the authors aimed to determine the trends in vegetation cover change over past two decades and the associated driving forces in this study area. The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) of 2000-2015, derived from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) remote sensing dataset along with the application of statistical methods and GIS (geographic information system) techniques were used to quantify vegetation cover change. The results show that human-induced factors can explain most variations at sites with significant cover change. That is to say that human activities are the main drivers of vegetation dynamics in this study area, which shows a significant reduction trend in vegetation cover during the industrialization and urbanization processes of the study period and noticeable recovery trend in 2000-2015 under the plantation and enclosed forest policy.
PB - MDPI AG
T2 - Sustainability
T1 - The Dynamic Change of Vegetation Cover and Associated Driving Forces in Nanxiong Basin, China
VL - 9
IS - 3
DO - 10.3390/su9030443
ER -
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author = "Yan, Luobin and He, Ruixiang and Kašanin-Grubin, Milica and Luo, Gusong and Peng, Hua and Qiu, Jianxiu",
year = "2017",
url = "http://cer.ihtm.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/2224",
abstract = "Natural climate change and human activities are the main driving forces associated with vegetation coverage change. Nanxiong Basin is a key ecosystem-service area at the national level with a dense population and highly representative of red-bed basins, which are considered as fragile ecological units in humid regions. In this study, the authors aimed to determine the trends in vegetation cover change over past two decades and the associated driving forces in this study area. The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) of 2000-2015, derived from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) remote sensing dataset along with the application of statistical methods and GIS (geographic information system) techniques were used to quantify vegetation cover change. The results show that human-induced factors can explain most variations at sites with significant cover change. That is to say that human activities are the main drivers of vegetation dynamics in this study area, which shows a significant reduction trend in vegetation cover during the industrialization and urbanization processes of the study period and noticeable recovery trend in 2000-2015 under the plantation and enclosed forest policy.",
publisher = "MDPI AG",
journal = "Sustainability",
title = "The Dynamic Change of Vegetation Cover and Associated Driving Forces in Nanxiong Basin, China",
volume = "9",
number = "3",
doi = "10.3390/su9030443"
}
Yan L, He R, Kašanin-Grubin M, Luo G, Peng H, Qiu J. The Dynamic Change of Vegetation Cover and Associated Driving Forces in Nanxiong Basin, China. Sustainability. 2017;9(3)
Yan, L., He, R., Kašanin-Grubin, M., Luo, G., Peng, H.,& Qiu, J. (2017). The Dynamic Change of Vegetation Cover and Associated Driving Forces in Nanxiong Basin, China.
SustainabilityMDPI AG., 9(3).
https://doi.org/10.3390/su9030443
Yan Luobin, He Ruixiang, Kašanin-Grubin Milica, Luo Gusong, Peng Hua, Qiu Jianxiu, "The Dynamic Change of Vegetation Cover and Associated Driving Forces in Nanxiong Basin, China" 9, no. 3 (2017),
https://doi.org/10.3390/su9030443 .
