Characterization and interaction of driving factors in karst rocky desertification: a case study from Changshun, China

Xu, E. Q.; Zhang, H. Q.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/se-5-1329-2014

Articles | Volume 5, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/se-5-1329-2014

© Author(s) 2014. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/se-5-1329-2014

© Author(s) 2014. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 5, issue 2

Research article

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16 Dec 2014

Research article |

| 16 Dec 2014

Characterization and interaction of driving factors in karst rocky desertification: a case study from Changshun, China

E. Q. Xu and H. Q. Zhang

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RC C1131: 'Reviewer Comments for manuscript No. se-2014-95', Anonymous Referee #1, 11 Oct 2014
- AC C1282: 'Reply to Referee 1', Erqi Xu, 12 Nov 2014
RC C1264: 'Karst desertification', Anonymous Referee #2, 10 Nov 2014
- AC C1283: 'Reply to Referee 2', Erqi Xu, 12 Nov 2014

Short summary

Geographical information system techniques and a geographical-detector model are used to explore the relationship between the evolution of karst rocky desertiﬁcation (KRD) and driving data. Our results detect non-linearly enhanced impacts significantly aggravating the KRD. This implies that there is no significant difference between natural and anthropogenic factors influencing KRD improvement, and also that natural factors have a more important impact on KRD deterioration.