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Arid Land Geography ›› 2026, Vol. 49 ›› Issue (4): 841-855.doi: 10.12118/j.issn.1000-6060.2025.580

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Spatiotemporal variation characteristics and simulation prediction of land ecological vulnerability in Gansu Province from 2000 to 2024

CAO Haoran1,2(), MENG Mei1(), LIU Hongguang2   

  1. 1 School of Public Administration, Xinjiang Agricultural University (Law School), Urumqi 830002, Xinjiang, China
    2 School of Land Management, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, Jiangsu, China
  • Received:2025-09-25 Revised:2025-12-26 Online:2026-04-25 Published:2026-04-28
  • Contact: MENG Mei E-mail:caohaoran@stu.njau.edu.cn;mengmeihh@163.com

Abstract:

This study aims to investigate the spatiotemporal evolution and future trend of land ecological vulnerability in Gansu Province from 2000 to 2024. Toward this end, it constructs an evaluation system based on the sensitivity-resilience-pressure model. The study employs the entropy weight method, a geographic detector, and the Cellular Automata-Markov model for quantitative analyses and the simulation and prediction of conditions, respectively, for 2030 and 2035. The results indicated that land ecological vulnerability significantly decreased, ecosystem stability improved, and dominant vulnerability level shifted from high to light/moderate. Moreover, spatial patterns exhibited a gradient of high and low vulnerability in the northwest and southeast, respectively, with high- and low-value areas gradually shrinking and expanding, respectively. Annual evapotranspiration, normalized difference vegetation index, and sunshine hours were the dominant influencing factors and the interaction among them exerted the strongest effect, thereby indicating that climate and vegetation jointly regulated land ecosystem vulnerability. The simulation results predicted that, by 2035, the proportion of micro and mild vulnerability areas will reach 65.5%, extremely vulnerable areas will nearly disappear, and the overall ecological pattern will continue to improve. In summary, the land ecosystem in Gansu Province demonstrates a trend of continuous restoration and steady optimization. Ecological restoration policies and climate-adaptive governance jointly contribute to the gradual reformation of the regional ecological security pattern.

Key words: land ecological vulnerability, SRP model, geographical detector, CA-Markov model, Gansu Province