Impacts of Land Use Change on the Regional Climate: A Structural Equation Modeling Study in Southern China

Table 3

The measurement and structural equations estimated by LISREL.

Component	Estimate model	Error	-value	Significance
Measurement component	Forestry = 0.76 × vegetation	0.43	11.52
	Grassland = 0.86 × vegetation	0.27	13.49
	Cultivated land = 0.74 × vegetation + 0.87 × urban and surrounding	0.23	10.26; 11.90
	Water bodies = 0.19 × vegetation + 0.84 × urban and surrounding	0.39	2.97; 11.96
	Built-up area = 0.91 × urban and surrounding	0.18	15.36
	Unused land = 0.81 × other	0.35	6.24
	Others = 0.33 × other	0.88	3.92
	Precipitation = 0.29 × climate	0.91	—	—
	Temperature = 0.95 × climate	0.08	3.07
Structural component	Climate = −0.42 × vegetation + 0.20 × urban and surrounding + 0.46 × other	0.38	−2.74
			1.46
			2.34