Research Article
NDVI Variation and Its Responses to Climate Change on the Northern Loess Plateau of China from 1998 to 2012
Table 2
Changes in land-cover area on the northern Loess Plateau region between 1997 and 2010.
| | Land type | Area in 1997 (km2) | Area ratio in 1997 (%) | Area in 2010 (km2) | Area ratio in 2010 (%) |
| | Farmland | 34604.82 | 30.76 | 33465.49 | 29.75 | | Forestland | 10140.58 | 9.01 | 12373.57 | 11.00 | | Grassland | 51520.69 | 45.80 | 49540.2 | 44.04 | | Water bodies | 1935.73 | 1.72 | 1986.34 | 1.77 | | Urban and built-up land | 1549.50 | 1.38 | 1942.18 | 1.73 |
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