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Arid Land Geography ›› 2026, Vol. 49 ›› Issue (4): 856-867.doi: 10.12118/j.issn.1000-6060.2025.296

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Assessment of land degradation neutrality and analysis of influencing factors in Yellow River’s “Ji Zi Bend”

ZHANG Jiajing1(), WANG Xiaofeng1,2(), ZHOU Chaowei1, ZHOU Jitao1, BAI Juan1   

  1. 1 School of Land Engineering, Chang’an University, Xi’an 710054, Shaanxi, China
    2 Key Laboratory of Xi’an Territorial and Spatial Information, Xi’an 710054, Shaanxi, China
  • Received:2025-05-26 Revised:2025-08-18 Online:2026-04-25 Published:2026-04-28
  • Contact: WANG Xiaofeng E-mail:13213368139@163.com;wangxf@chd.edu.cn

Abstract:

Achieving land degradation neutrality (LDN) is a crucial pathway for addressing the global environmental challenge of land degradation. As a key area for ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin, the “Ji Zi Bend” section of the Yellow River faces serious soil erosion and desertification. Based on the LDN assessment framework, this study constructs a localized, multi-scale LDN analytical framework in combination with regional degradation processes. It systematically measures and analyzes the spatial patterns of LDN achievement and their influencing factors in the region from 2000 to 2023 by applying methods such as geographically weighted regression. The results show that (1) At the pixel scale, the area of land improvement exceeds that of degradation, with proportions of improved, degraded, and stabilized land accounting for 69.69%, 23.74%, and 6.57%, respectively. (2) At the regional scale, the LDN target has not yet been fully achieved, with 47.42% of land at the grid scale achieving LDN, 36.00% at the county scale achieving LDN, and only 7 out of 21 cities achieving LDN. (3) There is clear spatial heterogeneity in the dominant influencing factors of LDN. Wind speed, population density, and elevation generally exhibit negative effects on LDN in most areas, whereas precipitation, actual evapotranspiration, soil moisture, and the normalized difference vegetation index show positive effects on LDN. The findings provide a reference for the regionalized application of the LDN framework and a decision-making basis for land degradation management in the “Ji Zi Bend” section of the Yellow River.

Key words: land degradation neutrality, ecosystem services, geographically weighted regression, influencing factors, Yellow River’s “Ji Zi Bend”