Cultivated Land Fragmentation and Its Influencing Factors Detection

A Case Study in Huaihe River Basin, China

Bibliographic Data

ID15468795
AuthorsJiale Liang (0000-0003-0639-0161, China University of Geosciences), Sipei Pan (0000-0003-1758-7410, China University of Geosciences), Wanxu Chen (0000-0002-3488-4380, Beijing Normal University, corresponding author), Jiangfeng Li (0000-0002-0014-8406, China University of Geosciences, corresponding author), Ting Zhou (0009-0007-5297-1166, Fujian Normal University)
Year2021
Volume19
Issue1
Pages138-138
Publication date2021-12-23
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1661-7827 • E-ISSN: 1660-4601
PublisherMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (PUBLISHER • CH)
DOI10.3390/ijerph19010138
PMID35010396
OpenAlexW4200083966
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited49

The booming population and accelerating urbanization in the Huaihe River Basin have sped up the land use transformation and the cultivated land fragmentation (CLF), seriously impeded the advancement of agricultural modernization, and threatened regional stability and national food security as well. The analysis of CLF degree and its spatiotemporal distribution characteristics, along with the influencing factors in the Huaihe River Basin, is of great significance for promoting the intensive and efficient utilization of cultivated land resources and maintaining food security. Previous studies lack the measurement and cause analysis of CLF in Huaihe River Basin. To bridge the gap, this study introduces Fragstats4.2 and ArcGIS10.3 to analyze the spatiotemporal characteristics of CLF in county units in the Huaihe River Basin from 2000 to 2018 through the Lorentz curve, entropy method, and spatial auto-correlation method while the causes of the spatiotemporal differentiation of CLF in the basin were explored with the help of a geographic detector. The results show that the spatial distribution of cultivated land in the Huaihe River Basin is relatively balanced, and the Gini coefficients of cultivated land from 2000 to 2018 were 0.105, 0.108, and 0.113, respectively. More than 56% of the counties in the basin have a location entropy greater than 1. the percentage of landscape, area-weighted mean patch area, patch cohesion index, and aggregation index decrease year by year while the patch density and splitting index show an upward trend. The landscape pattern of cultivated land is highly complex, and the overall fragmentation degree is increasing. The county distribution pattern of the CLF degree with random and agglomeration is generally stable. The spatiotemporal differentiation of CLF in the Huaihe River Basin is affected by multiple factors, among which the influences of the normalized difference vegetation index, per capita cultivated land area, and intensity of human activity obviously stronger than other factors, and the contribution rate of the factors reached more than 0.4. The interaction effect among the factors is stronger than that of single factor, with dual-factor enhancement and nonlinear enhancement dominating. The results of this study have important implications for optimizing the agricultural structure in the Huaihe River Basin and alleviating the CLF in important grain production areas

Agriculture · Cartography · China · Drainage basin · Food security · Fragmentation (computing · Geography · Geomorphology · Hydrology (agriculture · Land use · Physical geography · Population · Structural basin · Threatened species · Urbanization · Environmental Changes in China · Environmental Science · Land Rights and Reforms · Land Use and Ecosystem Services · Ecology · Geology

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