A Detailed and High-Resolution Land Use and Land Cover Change Analysis over the Past 16 Years in the Horqin Sandy Land, Inner Mongolia

Table 5

The annual change rate (%) of the 17 LULC secondary classes during 2000–2009, 2009–2015, and 2000–2015 in the study area. Positive (negative) value indicates increasing (decreasing) trend over the time period.

LULC classes	Annual rate of change (%)
	2000–2009	2009–2015	2000–2015
Bare	9.65	−7.06	0.52
Dry land	1.17	0.92	1.11
Dense grass	−1.97	10.62	2.31
Forest	−6.37	22.72	0.05
Irrigation land	6.30	0.47	4.07
Moderate grass	−0.12	−3.85	−1.59
Other forest	0.30	−4.95	−1.86
Paddy	−6.20	24.40	0.59
Rural settlement	1.47	2.47	2.00
Salina	15.51	−13.29	−3.43
Sandy land	−2.89	−2.61	−2.51
Shrub	5.33	−4.45	0.57
Sparse grass	−0.70	8.08	2.61
Tidal	−1.42	8.16	1.99
Urban built-up area	1.37	1.66	1.57
Water	−7.70	−2.03	−4.87
Swampland	1.80	−10.38	−3.74