Acta Agriculturae Zhejiangensis ›› 2021, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (6): 1049-1061.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1004-1524.2021.06.10

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Spatial differentiation characteristics and driving factors of abandoned cultivated land in Karst trough valley

SHI Houjun1(), LAN Anjun1,2,*(), YI Xingsong3, ZHAI Xiang1, LIAO Yanmei1, ZHONG Jiusheng1,2   

  1. 1. School of Geography & Environmental Sciences, Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang 550025, China
    2. State Engineering Technology Institute for Karst Desertification Control, Guiyang 550001, China
    3. College of Forestry, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550004, China
  • Received:2020-12-14 Online:2021-06-25 Published:2021-06-25
  • Contact: LAN Anjun

Abstract:

To understand the spatial differentiation characteristics of abandoned cultivated land and its driving factors, Bijiang District and Wanshan District, Tongren City, Guizhou Province, located in the Karst trough valley area, were selected as the study area in the present study. The data of abandoned cultivated land was obtained through visual interpretation based on the 2017 land use change survey database and 2019 high-scoring remote sensing imagery and field surveys. The hot spots were used to analyze the spatial differentiation characteristics of abandoned cultivated land, and a two-class Logistic regression model was used to analyze driving factors. The results showed that the overall abandonment rate of cultivated land in the study area was 17.32%, and the abandonment rate of dry land (23.54%) was higher than that of paddy fields (9.52%). The extremely hot spots of abandoned paddy fields were distributed in the southwest and the rural-urban junction towns in the northeast, yet the spatial distribution of cold spots was not obvious. The extreme hot spots of abandoned dry land were distributed in the west and northeast, while the extreme cold and cold spots were mainly distributed in the east. The driving factors of paddy field and dry land abandonment were roughly the same, but the priority was different. The driving factors of the abandonment of paddy fields decreased as plot area>distance from settlement>slope>distance from irrigation>transportation distance>elevation>plot shape index, and the driving factors of the dry land abandonment decreased as distance from settlement>plot area>slope>distance from irrigation>elevation>transportation distance>plot shape index. In general, the main driving factor for the abandonment of cultivated land in the Karst trough valley was the distance from settlement, which indicated that the labor separation and rural hollowing were the main reasons for the abandonment of cultivated land. In addition, the abandonment of cultivated land was also closely related to the plot area, slope, distance from irrigation, etc.

Key words: farmland abandonment, spatial differentiation, driving factors, hot spot analysis, Karst trough valley

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