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Review

How Large-Scale Anthropogenic Activities Influence Vegetation Cover Change in China? A Review

by
Dingrao Feng
1,
Meichen Fu
1,2,*,
Yiyu Sun
3,
Wenkai Bao
4,
Min Zhang
1,
Yafu Zhang
1 and
Jinjin Wu
1
1
School of Land Science and Technology, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), Beijing 100083, China
2
Key Laboratory of Land Consolidation and Land Rehabilitation, Ministry of Natural Resources of the People’s Republic of China, Beijing 100035, China
3
School of Urban Planning and Design, Shenzhen Graduate School, Peking University, Shenzhen 518055, China
4
Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Forests 2021, 12(3), 320; https://doi.org/10.3390/f12030320
Submission received: 9 February 2021 / Revised: 28 February 2021 / Accepted: 5 March 2021 / Published: 10 March 2021
(This article belongs to the Section Forest Ecology and Management)
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Abstract

Vegetation cover plays a key role in terrestrial ecosystem; therefore, it is important for researchers to investigate the variation and influencing factors of vegetation cover. China has experienced a large-scale vegetation cover change in recent years. We summarized the literature of vegetation cover change and revealed how large-scale anthropogenic activities influence vegetation cover change in China. Afforestation and intensification of cropland played a key role in large-scale greening. Urbanization showed a “U” shape to influence vegetation cover change. Mining and reclamation, land abandonment and land consolidation, and regional natural protection all had a unique influence on the change of vegetation cover. Indeed, the large-scale vegetation cover change was caused by interaction of anthropogenic factors and part human-driven climate change. Anthropogenic factors influenced climate change to indirectly alter the condition of plant growth. Interaction between climate change and human activities influence on vegetation cover still needs to be further investigated in the future.
Keywords: anthropogenic activities; vegetation cover; greening; China anthropogenic activities; vegetation cover; greening; China

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Feng, D.; Fu, M.; Sun, Y.; Bao, W.; Zhang, M.; Zhang, Y.; Wu, J. How Large-Scale Anthropogenic Activities Influence Vegetation Cover Change in China? A Review. Forests 2021, 12, 320. https://doi.org/10.3390/f12030320

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Feng D, Fu M, Sun Y, Bao W, Zhang M, Zhang Y, Wu J. How Large-Scale Anthropogenic Activities Influence Vegetation Cover Change in China? A Review. Forests. 2021; 12(3):320. https://doi.org/10.3390/f12030320

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Feng, Dingrao, Meichen Fu, Yiyu Sun, Wenkai Bao, Min Zhang, Yafu Zhang, and Jinjin Wu. 2021. "How Large-Scale Anthropogenic Activities Influence Vegetation Cover Change in China? A Review" Forests 12, no. 3: 320. https://doi.org/10.3390/f12030320

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Feng, D., Fu, M., Sun, Y., Bao, W., Zhang, M., Zhang, Y., & Wu, J. (2021). How Large-Scale Anthropogenic Activities Influence Vegetation Cover Change in China? A Review. Forests, 12(3), 320. https://doi.org/10.3390/f12030320

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