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    Volume 51 Issue 2
    Feb.  2026
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    Wang Rui, Shen Yanjun, Wang Lei, Li Chao, Li Shaojie, Mu Qingyi, Ning Yibing, Xu Panpan, Peng Jianbing, 2026. Elevation Gradient Characteristics of the Interfeeding between Human Activities and Ecological Environment in Xi 'an Section of the Northern Foot of Qinling Mountains. Earth Science, 51(2): 432-445. doi: 10.3799/dqkx.2024.134
    Citation: Wang Rui, Shen Yanjun, Wang Lei, Li Chao, Li Shaojie, Mu Qingyi, Ning Yibing, Xu Panpan, Peng Jianbing, 2026. Elevation Gradient Characteristics of the Interfeeding between Human Activities and Ecological Environment in Xi 'an Section of the Northern Foot of Qinling Mountains. Earth Science, 51(2): 432-445. doi: 10.3799/dqkx.2024.134

    Elevation Gradient Characteristics of the Interfeeding between Human Activities and Ecological Environment in Xi 'an Section of the Northern Foot of Qinling Mountains

    doi: 10.3799/dqkx.2024.134
    • Received Date: 2024-12-23
      Available Online: 2026-03-09
    • Publish Date: 2026-02-25
    • In order toelucidate the impact of human activities on ecosystem in Xi 'an section of the northern foot of Qinling Mountains, the spatio-temporal evolution of human activities and ecosystem services in the region in the past 20 years was analyzed in the present study.The human footprint index is adopted to quantify intensity of human activities. The InVEST model is used to evaluate the ecosystem services.Their spatial correlation characteristics are analyzed from the perspective of altitude gradient.The results indicate that the area of high and relatively high level human activity intensity increased by 5.99 times and 1.85 times, respectively. The areas where the intensity of human activities increased were mainly concentrated in the plain area of Zhouzhi County, the control zone in front of mountains and the four main valley roads. Urbanization, highway construction and tourism development are the main reasons for the increase of human activities in the northern foot of Qinling Mountains. In the past 20 years, the water conservation, soil conservation and carbon storage service functions of the ecosystem in the northern foot of the Qinling Mountains have been gradually weakened by human activities. Their stability has improved. However, habitat quality has become more sensitive to changes in human activities. The increasing intensity of human activities in the low mountainous areas weakened the stability of habitat quality. The coordination areas between human activities and ecological environment in the northern foot of Qinling Mountains can be divided into four categories: intense conflict area of human-land relationship (< 853 m), unbalance area of human-land coordination (853~1 105 m), sensitive area of human-land coordination (1 105~1 576 m), balance area of human-land relationship (> 1 576 m).

       

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