Xin Chen

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• PhD
• Professor (Associate) at Shanxi University

The green depressing cropping system (GDCS) has existed in the farming-pastoral ecotone of northern China (FPENC) for hundreds of years. This ancient practice aims to promote an agricultural system that is both green and sustainable at the same time. However, there is a knowledge gap regarding the extent and implementation of the GDCS in China. Her...

China is prone to broad land degradation and thus has been implementing ecological restoration projects (ERPs) since the reform and opening up. The extent of ERPs, as well as the varied planting efforts including tree gain projects (TGPs), grass gain projects (GGPs), and shrub gain projects (SGPs), have remained largely unknown. In addition, the mi...

As the most biodiversity-rich part of the protected areas system, habitats within the pilot national parks have long been threatened by drastic human-induced land use and land cover changes. The growing concern about habitat loss has spurred China's national park project to shift from pilot to construction phase with the official establishment of C...

China has long suffered from failures in urban governance, arable land conservation, and environmental conservation because of the lack of accurate and reliable land use data. To fill these gaps, China has been conducting a once-a-decade census of national land use status. On August 26, 2021, China released the third national land survey data, whic...

China prioritizes a coordinated and sustainable shift from rural to urban areas, termed rural-urban transformation. This involves land, population, and industry urbanization. Here we explore the spatiotemporal dynamics of rural-urban transformation patterns in China, focusing on the degree of integrated transformation and the coupling between the t...

With the progress of urbanization, environmental challenges stemming from rapid urban sprawl have become pervasive. Consequently, research on urban sprawl has emerged as a crucial focal point in sustainable development efforts, emphasizing the need to understand the evolution characteristics and systemic mechanism of urban sprawl. However, existing...

Afforestation of abandoned cropland represents a promising strategy for land-based climate change mitigation, particularly in regions where land resources for additional afforestation are limited. However, the carbon sequestration potential of such land remains largely unknown. Here, we assess the spatial distribution of abandoned cropland in China...

Urban greenways are pivotal in enriching urban quality and fostering socio-ecological sustainability. Previous studies on urban greenway networks have often overlooked user-based experience efficiency, leading to the underutilization and insufficient translation of cultural services into human well-being. In this study, we introduce a user behavior...

In the metacoupling Anthropocene, tourism-based culture ecosystem services flows (CESF) can establish non-material bridges from the natural to the human system, even across vast geographic distances. However, there remains a knowledge gap regarding investigation of nature-related tourist travel patterns at geographic flow scales. To address this ga...

Protected areas are typically considered a cornerstone of conservation programs and play a fundamental role in protecting natural areas and biodiversity. Human‐driven land‐use and land‐cover (LULC) changes lead to habitat loss and biodiversity loss inside protected areas, impairing their effectiveness. However, the global dynamics of habitat qualit...

Land system science has gained prominence over the past few decades due to its role in promoting sustainable development. However, there are still key advancements needed to support land system science in meeting the challenges ahead and further contribute to the achievement of sustainable development. Therefore, this paper uses scientometrics to e...

Resilient counties has the capability to navigate adverse environmental changes, adaptively reallocate resources during challenges, and bolster county competitiveness. This study introduces an original framework for nurturing resilient counties based on geographical natures, emphasizing the role of geographic space evolution, termed county space re...

Skin cooling, wherein the surface temperature of a water body T skin is lower than the temperature below the surface, is a widespread phenomenon. Previous studies have almost ignored this effect on the Tibetan Plateau (TP), despite the presence of thousands of lakes on the TP and the fact that extraordinary solar heating leads to very strong energy...

The increasing demand for livestock feed in China has led to a remarkable increase in forage acreage, particularly in forage fields under intensive agricultural management. However, there are no maps currently available to demonstrate and document the spatial and temporal patterns of the continuous expansion of intensive forage. Here we proposed a...

Farmland rents are related to farmland transfer efficiency and a key factor affecting the development of large-scale agricultural operations and food security. However, rents in some regions with poor-quality farmland are higher than those in high-quality regions, especially in China, which could distort farmland market development. To clarify the...

Synergies and trade-offs among land use and land covers (LULCs) pose considerable uncertainties in achieving the dual carbon goals for China's Loess Plateau (CLP). In this context, we unraveled the carbon stock dynamics induced by land use and land cover change (LUCC) in the CLP over the past 40 years using the satellite-derived annual LULC maps an...

The study of vegetation dynamics and its influencing factors can reveal the response mechanism between vegetation cover dynamics and climate change and has important significance for regional vegetation restoration and ecological sustainability. Based on MODIS multitemporal remote sensing satellite data, this study investigated the quarterly change...

Remote sensing and land resource surveys have been used in recent decades for land use/land cover (LULC) mapping; however, keeping the developed LULC up-to-date and consistent with land survey statistics remains challenging. This study developed a practical and effective framework to automatically update existing LULC products and bridge the gap be...

Key phenological periods of vegetation (such as the start (SOS) and end (EOS) of the growing season) are affected by climate change and human activities. However, the impact of aridification on these phenological responses is still unclear. In the farming-pastoral ecotone of northern China (FPENC), which is plagued by severe aridification, the clim...

Land disturbance (LD), commonly reflecting anthropogenic-induced land surface changes, has received unprecedented attention due to its contribution to achieving Sustainable Development Goal 15: life on land. Considerable LD in China, such as urban sprawl, farmland expansion and forest loss, have resulted in a spectrum of environmental problems in r...

Urban development boundary (UDB) has always served as a crucial aspect of urban sprawl research. The objective of this paper is to investigate boundary delineation and carbon emission effects. Firstly, we examined the patterns of land use changes. Additionally, this paper utilized the FLUS model and land use carbon emission calculation model to del...

The clear boundary between urban and rural areas is gradually disappearing, and urban and rural areas are two poles of a gradient with many continuous human settlements in between, which is a concept known as the rural-urban continuum. Little is known about the distribution and change trajectories of the various types in the rural-urban continuum a...

Cropland monitoring is a crucial component for a broad user community from Land Use and Land Cover Change study to food security policy making. Faced with the rich natural ecological environment and variable agricultural production conditions of Mid-Spine Belt of Beautiful China (MSBBC), this study developed a novel operational assessment framework...

An ambitious new Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework "Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework" has been developed. However, the combined effects of climate change and human modification can undermine the potential benefits of the global post-2020 conservation efforts. The co-benefits of stabilizing the climate, conserving biodiversity, a...

In recent decades, China has implemented ecological restoration projects (ERPs) to improve biodiversity and ecosystem services (ESs), accordingly, a series of environmental laws were issued to guide ecological restoration. However, quantitative evaluation of the effectiveness of ERPs remains ambiguous. To respond to the UN Decade on Ecosystem Resto...

The relationship between agricultural production factor prices and production performance has long been a topic of academic discussion. However, current research has paid relatively little attention to the problem of scale efficiency losses in agricultural production caused by deviations in farmland prices. In order to explore the development direc...

As the farmland transfer market in China develops, moderate-scale operations increasingly grow but without much improvement in fertilizer use efficiency. This study theoretically analyzes the mechanism and effect of rising farmland costs on fertilizer use efficiency using multiple quadratic regression and mediating effects models. It empirically te...

Traffic congestion is one of serious problems in cities; rainfalls would exacerbate traffic congestion, and thus result in huge economic losses. However, limited studies focused on how rainfalls influenced traffic congestion and its associated economic losses. Based on detailed hourly data, we estimated how traffic congestion index (TCI) changed wi...

Citation: Mao, S.; Zhou, Y.; Gao, W.; Jin, Y.; Zhao, H.; Luo, Y.; Chen, S.; Chen, X.; Zhang, G.; Lun, F.; et al.

Global land cover has undergone extensive and rapid changes as a result of human activities and climate change. These changes have had a significant impact on biodiversity, the surface energy balance, and sustainable development. Global land cover data underpins research on the development of earth system models, resource management, and evaluation...

Preserving wilderness areas is one of the key goals in the post-2020 global biodiversity framework. However, far too little attention has been paid to identifying wilderness conservation priorities on the national scale. In this study, we developed a methodological framework to evaluate the ecosystem service values, potential threats and conservati...

Ecosystem service mapping (ESM) studies are receiving increasing attention due to the imbalance between the supply of and demand for ecosystem services (ES). Global scale ESM is still scarce, but the high computing power of the Google Earth Engine (GEE) cloud platform significantly increases the efficiency. Based on global-scale land cover datasets...

Traffic congestion is one of serious problems in cities; rainfalls would exacerbate traffic congestion, and thus result in huge economic losses. However, limited studies focused on how rainfalls influenced traffic congestion and its associated economic losses. Based on detailed hourly data, we estimated how traffic congestion index (TCI) changed wi...

To reveal the effect of monetary policy on corporate financing, this study compared the effect of tightened monetary policy on bank loans and commercial credit financing for real estate companies and manufacturing companies. We further analyzed the land purchase behaviors of typical real estate companies under different monetary policies. The resul...

Understanding the impact of climate change on terrestrial wet and dry changes and the relationship between the two is of great significance to the sustainable development of terrestrial ecosystems. The farming-pastoral ecotone of northern China (FPENC) is an area that is sensitive to climate change, suffering from perennial drought and a clear arid...

The growing population and northward shifts in the center of grain production collectively contribute to the arising farmland use intensity of the farming-pastoral ecotone of Northern China (FPENC). Consequently, it poses a great threat to the vulnerable ecosystem of FPENC. Thus, farmland use intensity monitoring is a top priority to practice susta...

Cloud cover hinders the effective use of vegetation indices from optical satellite-acquired imagery in cloudy agricultural production areas, such as Guangdong, a subtropical province in southern China which supports two-season rice production. The number of cloud-free observations for the earth-orbiting optical satellite sensors must be determined...

The “Urban Heat Island” (UHI) effects in cities pose great threats to heat health risks for urban dwellers, but they present great differences inside cities. Local climate zones (LCZs), with distinct surface morphologies and physical structures, can be used to better explore differences of UHI effects inside cities and can also solve their differen...

By taking the Huaihai Economic Zone as research object, the remote sensing, socio-economic and other multi-source data in this region were collected, and land use thematic mappings of 2006, 2011 and 2017 were conducted. A CA-Markov model was used to simulate the land use situation in the study area in 2025. In the meantime, the carbon storage in th...

To achieve food security, closing the cropping intensity gap (CIG) between realizable and actual cropping systems is the most effective way to increase grain production (GP) with lower environmental costs. Numerous studies have explored the yield gap between the potential and actual crop yields, but few studies have analysed the changes in GP by cl...

Rapid acquisition and mapping of normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) values is essential for a timely evaluation of nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) in sustainable agriculture. The zonal nutrient management techniques for sustainable agriculture require timely and efficient NDVI data collection and analysis capabilities, – a need that is sti...

【摘要】 基于1981-2010年气象数据,利用ArcGIS地统计分析方法和多元线性回归模型,探讨了气候资源与地形要素之间的相关关系;并结合作物与作物组合的气候生态适宜性,提出了全国不同海拔高度下的标准耕作制度评价依据和县域尺度标准耕作制度评价结果.结果表明:积温随纬度增加呈现"先增后减"的空间变化规律,而且同一温度带内t_年≥10℃积温变化量大于t_年≥0℃积温变化量.年降水量与经度值呈正相关,与纬度值呈负相关,与海拔高度存在较为复杂的相关性.从地形复杂区标准耕作制度的变化规律和农业气象台站信息验证结果来看,一年三熟分布在边缘热带与亚热带的低海拔地区;一年二熟分布在暖温带(海拔高度低于600 m)、北亚热带(海拔高度200～600 m)和中亚热带(海拔高度300～1 100 m)地区;一年...

Center pivot irrigation (CPI) has expanded rapidly in recent years due to drought in the Farming-Pastoral Ecotone of Northern China (FPENC). However, it is worth questioning whether the promotion of CPI will have adverse effects on highly vulnerable regions. Therefore, we quantify the CPI change patterns in FPENC and its vegetation cover response u...

Exploiting the full potential of the realizable triple cropping system (RTCS) is one of the most effective methods for increasing land productivity, thus promoting food security. However, insufficient attention is paid to the spatial distribution of the RTCS in China. Here, a method is developed to assess the RTCS in China, considering terrain, cli...

The urbanization process all over the world has caused serious ecological and environmental problems which have recently become a focus for study. Ecological footprint analysis, which is widely used to assess the sustainability of regional development, can quantitatively measure the human occupation of natural capital. In this study, the ecological...

Since the reform and opening-up, China’s economy has achieved remarkable development and so does the urbanization. However, there is an unavoidable contradiction between urban sprawl and the protection of arable land and the environment. By redefining the urban sprawl boundary, this paper is to provide a solution for the conflict above on the China...