Research Article
Analysis of Climate and Land Use Changes Impacts on Land Degradation in the North China Plain
Table 1
Results for binary panel logistic regression analyses for the biophysical and socioeconomic driving forces of land degradation.
| | Land degradation conditions (1 represents land improvement and 0 represents land degradation) | Coef. |
| | ΔRainfall (mm) | 3.221 | | ΔTemperature (°C) | 1.025 | | Percentage of land conversion from cultivated land to built-up land (%) | −0.326 | | Percentage of land conversion from cultivated land to forest land (%) | 1.788 | | Percentage of land conversion from cultivated land to grassland (%) | 8.507 | | ΔFertilizer utilization per unit area (kg/ha) | 0.506 | | ΔPopulation density (ten thousand people/km2) | −11.282 | | ΔRural farmers’ per capita income (ten thousand yuan) | | | ΔPer capita gross domestic production (ten thousand yuan) | 0.0004 | | ΔShare of production value of agriculture animal husbandry and fishery in GDP (%) | −1.672 | | DEM (km) | 3.214 | | Slope (degree) | −0.018 | | Soil organic matter (%) | 0.446 | | Distance to highway (km) | 0.002 | | _cons | 0.032 |
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Note: significant at the 10% level; significant at the 5% level; and significant at the 1% level.
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