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Research on land use optimization for reducing wind erosion in sandy desertified area: a case study of Yuyang County in Mu Us Desert, China

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Desertification land occupies vast area of world, which is a big threat to eco-environmental safety and brings huge economic losses. Wind erosion is a key process and ecological problem of land desertification in arid and semi-arid area, where unreasonable land use is one of major causes. Therefore, optimizing land use is a substantially effective approach to eco-environmental safety and development of sandy area. Yuyang County, located in Mu Us Desert of semi-arid sandy area and farming-pastoral zone in North China, was selected as a typical study area. The principles and methods on environmentally friendly land use planning surrounding urban area for combating soil wind erosion were constructed, and a “tri-circle” land use paradigm around Yulin City was worked out. It was predicted that by the year of 2020, farmland will be only 10 percent of total area of Yuyang County, which are able to meet the need of food and meat. The proportion of ecological land, productive land and living land would be 2.27:12.09:85.64, which will lead to a reasonable land use system for ecological security and social-economic sustainable development of the region. It shows that this research will help construct the sustainable land use system under ecological security, and ensure habitat environmental safety in urban area.

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Acknowledgments

This research is financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 41271286), the National Basic Research Program of China (No. 2012CB955403), and Key Project of Chinese Ministry of Education (No. 13JJD790008). We would like to thank professor Peijun Shi for his valuable suggestions for improving the study. Thanks should also be given to the anonymous reviewers and editor for their comments to improve the quality of this article.

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    Yaojie Yue & Jing-ai Wang

  2. State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875, China

    Yaojie Yue, Xueyong Zou & Jing-ai Wang

  3. Department of Geography, Kent State University, Kent, OH, 44242, USA

    Xinyue Ye

  4. The College of Geographical Science, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, 350007, China

    Lu Gao

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Yue, Y., Ye, X., Zou, X. et al. Research on land use optimization for reducing wind erosion in sandy desertified area: a case study of Yuyang County in Mu Us Desert, China. Stoch Environ Res Risk Assess 31, 1371–1387 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00477-016-1223-9

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