Mapping spatiotemporal variations in lakeside populations for sustainable lake management.

ABSTRACT: Lakes provide a range of essential ecosystem services and disservices, with their impacts on human well-being closely tied to the spatial proximity between populations and lakes. However, the extent and dynamics of human exposure to lakes remain poorly understood at large scales. In this study, we present a comprehensive spatiotemporal analysis of lakeside populations (LP) across mainland China from 2000 to 2020, evaluating exposure patterns at national, regional, and provincial levels within multiple distance buffers from lakes. We further disentangle the relative contributions of population growth and lake area changes to LP dynamics using a control-variable approach. We found that (1) In 2020, 33.59 million, 18.04 million, 10.47 million, 7.24 million, and 3.59 million people lived withi

SUBMITTER: Sun Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12569174 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature