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Arid Land Geography ›› 2021, Vol. 44 ›› Issue (2): 460-470.doi: 10.12118/j.issn.1000–6060.2021.02.17

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Remote sensing assessment and key driving factors of ecosystem health in Xinjiang

LI Haoxin1(),WAN Huawei2,SUN Lin1,LIU Yuping2(),LI Liping3,WANG Yongcai2   

  1. 1. Shandong University of Science and Technology College of Geomatics, Qingdao 266000, Shandong, China
    2. Ministry of Ecology and Environment Center for Satellite Application on Ecology and Environment, Beijing 100094, China
    3. Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, China
  • Received:2020-11-10 Revised:2021-02-07 Online:2021-03-25 Published:2021-04-14
  • Contact: Yuping LIU E-mail:1197665475@qq.com;lyping3349@sina.com

Abstract:

As the largest provincial administrative region with land area in China, the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region has a diversified ecosystem structure and abundant animal and plant resources, and is an important biodiversity hotspot in northwest China. The Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region was selected as the research object combined with regional characteristics and quantitative remote sensing data in real-time. Advantages of this evaluation are the facile obtainment, normalized difference vegetation index, species richness, drought degree, and human disturbance index of four types of single-factor index. According to the “vigor, organization, resilience” ecological health assessment model, the construction of a quantitative remote sensing data of the Xinjiang regional comprehensive ecosystem health assessment index, comprising remote sensing, and further environmental driving factors in the geographical detector, is based on the proved influence degree of the Xinjiang ecological health, and level of this method in the county administrative region for application of long time series analysis and verification. The remote sensing data used in this study were mainly provided by the national aeronautics and space administration (NASA) through the MODIS vegetation index and temperature series products. The species used data is based on the data reported in the literature. Compared to traditional ecological health assessment methods, this presents a wide coverage, convenient data acquisition, and updated cycle in a short time, providing a more refined evaluation of the results. The results showed that: (1) the ecological health level of Xinjiang considers the Tarim and Yarkant River Basins as the boundaries; moreover, the ecological health level of northern Xinjiang is significantly higher than that of southern Xinjiang, with substantial spatial differentiation and agglomeration characteristics. (2) The impact degree of each environmental factor on Xinjiang ecological health was as follows: normalized difference vegetation index (0.645)>human disturbance index (0.512)>animal species richness (0.414)>drought (0.116). (3) From 2000 to 2018, the overall ecological health level of Xinjiang demonstrated a gradually increasing trend, with the most significant changes occurring in the Manas County, Hutubi County, and Changji City in Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture; and the Altay Prefecture including Fuhai County and Fuyun County.

Key words: ecological health assessment, single factor index, geographic detector, driving factors, a dynamic analysis, Xinjiang