Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Economic Density and Vegetation Cover in the Yellow River Basin: Unraveling Interconnections
department or school: Forestry, Faculty of
department or school: Non UBC
data provider: DSpace
identifier citation: Land 13 (4): 475 (2024)
creator: Wang, Benxu
creator: Yang, Xuanqin
creator: Dou, Yaquan
creator: Wu, Qingjun
creator: Wang, Guangyu
creator: Li, Ya
creator: Zhao, Xiaodi
issued: 2024-05-13T14:31:19Z
issued: 2024-04-07
description: Vegetation, serving as the primary constituent of terrestrial ecosystems, plays a crucial role in regulating energy flow and material cycles and providing vital resources for human socio-economic activities. This study analyzes the spatio-temporal patterns of economic density and vegetation coverage in the Yellow River Basin (YRB) based on forest resource inventory and socio-economic data from 448 counties in 2008, 2013, and 2018. A three-tiered criterion layer is constructed using economic density as the core explanatory variable, encompassing social development factors, land use factors, and natural factors. A two-way fixed effects model is then utilized to analyze the impact of economic density on vegetation coverage. Results reveal that: (1) Spatially, economic density demonstrates a “low in the west and high in the east” pattern, with an overall upward trend in the YRB. Conversely, vegetation cover exhibits a “high in the west and low in the east” pattern, displaying a downward trend. (2) Over the 2008–2018 period, a significant negative correlation between economic density and vegetation cover is observed in each county of the YRB, with vegetation cover decreasing by 1.108% for every 1 unit increase in economic density. Notably, the upstream areas of the YRB experience a significant increase in vegetation coverage, while the middle and lower reaches witness a decrease. (3) Considering control variables, the proportion of the primary industry, urbanization rate, forest protection level, and cultivated land area exert a significant influence on vegetation coverage across the entire basin. Policymakers should formulate relevant policies to achieve sustainable development in the YRB, as discussed in the proposed countermeasures. This study delineates a practical pathway for high-quality economic development and high-level ecological protection in the YRB, offering a valuable reference for analogous research in other regions.
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note: Citation: Wang, B.; Yang, X.; Dou, Y.;Wu, Q.; Wang, G.; Li, Y.; Zhao, X.Spatio-Temporal Dynamics ofEconomic Density and VegetationCover in the Yellow River Basin:Unraveling Interconnections. Land2024, 13, 475. https://doi.org/10.3390/land13040475Academic Editors: SalvadorGarcía-Ayllón Veintimilla andJosep Lluís Miralles GarciaReceived: 29 February 2024Revised: 2 April 2024Accepted: 5 April 2024Published: 7 April 2024Copyright: © 2024 by the authors.Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.This article is an open access articledistributed under the terms andconditions of the Creative CommonsAttribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).landArticleSpatio-Temporal Dynamics of Economic Density and VegetationCover in the Yellow River Basin: Unraveling InterconnectionsBenxu Wang 1,†, Xuanqin Yang 1,†, Yaquan Dou 2 , Qingjun Wu 3, Guangyu Wang 4 , Ya Li 1 and Xiaodi Zhao 2,4,*1 College of Economics and Management, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming 650224, China;wangbenxu@swfu.edu.cn (B.W.); xuanqin23@swfu.edu.cn (X.Y.); liy@swfu.edu.cn (Y.L.)2 Research Institute of Forestry Policy and Information, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing 100091, China;douyq@caf.ac.cn3 College of Economics and Management, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, China;wqj2020@cau.edu.cn4 Faculty of Forestry, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada;guangyu.wang@ubc.ca* Correspondence: zhaoxiaodi@caf.ac.cn; Tel.: +86-136-7105-3260† These authors contributed equally to this work.Abstract: Vegetation, serving as the primary constituent of terrestrial ecosystems, plays a crucial rolein regulating energy flow and material cycles and providing vital resources for human socio-economicactivities. This study analyzes the spatio-temporal patterns of economic density and vegetationcoverage in the Yellow River Basin (YRB) based on forest resource inventory and socio-economic datafrom 448 counties in 2008, 2013, and 2018. A three-tiered criterion lay…
has type: Article
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0443088
language: eng
peer review status: Reviewed
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
publisher DOI: 10.3390/land13040475
rights: CC BY 4.0
rights URI: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
scholar level: Faculty
scholar level: Researcher
subject: economic density
subject: vegetation cover
subject: spatio-temporal pattern
subject: two-way fixed effects model
subject: the Yellow River Basin
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/88273