Table 1.
Symbols for the impact of changes in forest area and forces that affect them.
Fig 1.
Frequency map of forest areas at the province level (a) and their relative annual change rate (b).
Table 2.
NDVI-derived forest areas (104 ha) at the province level for the six time spans and their annual relative change rates.
Fig 2.
Comparison in forest area (106 ha) based on remote sensing technique (RS) and NFI data in the time periods of 1984–1988 (a), 1989–1993 (b), 1994–1998 (c) and 1999–2003 (d), respectively.
Each point denotes a province.
Fig 3.
Scatter plot showing the forest area for the six time spans from 1982 to 2006.
Fig 4.
Annual change rate of forest area at the province level over the past 25 years.
Fig 5.
Spatial distribution of change in China’s forest over the past 25 years.
Table 3.
Relative change rates and contribution weights of each driving factor in the revised IPAT model.
Fig 6.
Relationship between forest coverage (%) derived from remote sensing data and the corresponding per capita gross domestic product at the provincial level in China.