Spatiotemporal Evolution and Driving Forces of Vegetation Cover in the Urumqi River Basin.

ABSTRACT: It is important to determine long-term changes in vegetation cover, and the associated driving forces, to better understand the natural and human-induced factors affecting vegetation growth. We calculated the fractional vegetation coverage (FVC) of the Urumqi River basin and selected seven natural factors (the clay and sand contents of surface soils, elevation, aspect, slope, precipitation and temperature) and one human factor (land use type). We then used the Sen-Man-Kendall method to calculate the changing trend of the FVC from 2000 to 2020. We used the optimal parameters-based geographical detector (OPGD) model to quantitatively analyze the influence of each factor on the change in vegetation coverage in the basin. The FVC of the Urumqi River basin fluctuated from 2000 to 2020, with ave

SUBMITTER: Mamattursun A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9690905 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature