Process of Land Conversion from Marsh into Cropland in the Sanjiang Plain during 1954-2005
Process of Land Conversion from Marsh into Cropland in the Sanjiang Plain during 1954-2005
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2009
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W. Zong
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The Sanjiang Plain,as one of main agricultural bases and the region distributing large-area freshwater marsh,plays an important role in safeguarding national food safety and regional ecological safety.Due to intensive human activities,large area marsh has been substituted by cropland during 1954-2005.In addition,There are many environmental problems resulted from land use changes above mentioned in the area.Researches concerning could not discover the process and rules of regional land conversion from marsh into cropland.Based on remote sensing and geographic information system technology,in this paper topographic maps and remotely sensed data were integrated,and the process and driving factors of land conversion from marsh into cropland were analyzed during 1954-2005.Results showed that,from 1954 to 2005,marsh area decreased by more than 3/4,from 352.59×104 ha to 95.87×104 ha.In contrast,cropland increased by 2.3 times,from 171.34×104 ha in 1954 to 556.88×104 ha in 2005.In 2005,cropland occupied 51.17% of the total land area,and became the dominant landscape of the Sanjiang Plain.The period 1954-1976 and the period 1977-1986 were the two stages in which land conversion from marsh into cropland happened with the largest scales.In these two periods,land conversion area is 186.40×104 ha and 120.30×104 ha,respectively.By 2005,the land conversion process ended basically.Large patches of marsh only distributed in some big wetland nature reserves.During 1954-2005,the land conversion area from marsh into cropland is 258.48×104 ha,and is 73.3% of marsh area in 1954.The main natural environmental features in relation to land conversion from marsh into cropland are those positions with elevation of 0-100 m,slope gradient of 0°-1°,physiognomies of river buffering area,river terrace,marsh low lands and low terraces,soils of meadow soil,marsh soil and bleaching soil.In the past 50 years,annual average air temperature of the Sanjiang Plain increased obviously,with an increasing rate of 0.029 ℃/a.Climate warming supplied favorable premise conditions for agricultural reclamation(especially the rice planting).Regional large-scale population increasing was the most important and direct driving force resulting in land conversion from marsh into cropland.In the past decades,total population of the Sanjiang Plain increased by 3.13 times.Statistical cropland areas had good linear relationships with total population and agricultural population.National policy impacted the land conversion from marsh into cropland of Sanjiang Plain to a big extent.