Abstract
Land use/cover change (LUCC) is one of the major environmental changes and has become a hot topic in the study of global change. Based on four land use classification maps, this study used the intensity analysis method to quantitatively monitor the land use changes which occurred in Inner Mongolia during 1980–2015. The results showed that changes occurred although the trends of corresponding land use types were different (increase or decrease), and the land use changes had an obvious increasing or decreasing trend before and after 2000, respectively. Generally, woodland, high-coverage grassland, and moderate-coverage grassland decreased and the other land use types increased during 1980–2015. In addition, the changes had great differences in spatial distribution. The area of grassland had the largest decrease, indicating that the quality of grassland has declined in Inner Mongolia. The variation rate of land use in 1980–1990 was faster than the rates in 1990–2000 and 2000–2015.
Highlights
Land use and land cover change (LULCC) is an important part of global climate change and global environmental change research [1,2]
It can be seen from the figure that there are spatially distributed woodland, grassland, and desert from the northeast to west, and cropland mainly distributed in the southeast and mid-west of Inner Mongolia
Inner Mongolia was selected as the study area
Summary
Land use and land cover change (LULCC) is an important part of global climate change and global environmental change research [1,2]. The International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) and the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP) jointly formulated the scientific research plan of Land Use/Cover Change (LUCC) in 1993, and declared that LUCC was the core content of global change research [5]. On this basis, the Global Land Project (GLP) was launched in 2005, emphasizing the comprehensive integration and simulation of the human–environment coupling system in the terrestrial system. The monitoring and simulation of the land use/land cover dynamic process based on the human–environment coupling system has become the focus of research [6,7], and a hot issue in the field of Land Change Science (LCS) [8,9]
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