Comparison of changes in land use and land cover in China and the USA over the past 300 years

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• 作者：Fanneng He ; Meijiao Li ; Shicheng Li ; Ran Xiao
• 关键词：land use/cover change ; historical comparisons ; past 300 years ; China ; the USA
• 刊名：Journal of Geographical Sciences
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：September 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：25
• 期：9
• 页码：1045-1057
• 全文大小：2,440 KB
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• 作者单位：Fanneng He (1)
  Meijiao Li (1) (2)
  Shicheng Li (1) (2)
  Ran Xiao (1) (2)
  
  1. Key Laboratory of Land Surface Pattern and Simulation, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, Beijing, 100101, China
  2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
  
• 刊物主题：Physical Geography; Nature Conservation; Geographical Information Systems/Cartography; Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry;
• 出版者：Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• ISSN：1861-9568

文摘

Comparative studies of changes in land use and land cover between different countries over a long time-scale are helpful in understanding the processes and driving forces of these changes in different situations. We compared and analyzed the temporal and spatial characteristics of cropland, forest and grassland between China’s mainland and the conterminous USA over the past 300 years. We found that, over the past 300 years, the area of cropland showed an overall increasing trend both in China and in the USA. In China, the area of cropland increased by about 79.46×104 km2 from 1661 to the 1980s, and the per capita cropland decreased from 0.37×104 m2 in 1685 to 0.10×104 m2 in 2000. For the USA, the area of cropland increased by 190.87×104 km2 between 1700 and 1950. The per capita cropland area of each time slice for the past 300 years was greater than 0.60×104 m2 and the maximum value was 2.01×104 m2 in 1890. As a result of the expansion in land reclamation, the forest and grassland areas of the USA have decreased by about 136.98×104 km2 and 136.98×104 km2, respectively, over the past 300 years; the corresponding values for China are about 89.73×104 km2 and 40.00×104 km2, respectively. In terms of the spatial patterns, the expansion in cropland in China mainly occurred in the border areas (including the northeast, southwest and Inner Mongolia) and in the hilly areas. Cropland expansion in the USA mainly occurred in the mid-west regions. In China, population growth is the most important driving factor in changes in land use and land cover, whereas in the USA, government policy plays the most significant role.