Moderate desertification showed a trend of decreasing–increasing–decreasing.
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Spatiotemporal dynamic evolution and driving factors of desertification in the Mu Us Sandy Land in 30 years.
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The degree of desertification in the Mu Us Sandy Land showed an overall trend of improvement after 2000, but serious local deterioration and desertification was still occurring.
The spatial extent in cultivated land area showed an increasing trend in the past 30 years and increased the most in 1997.
The spatial extent of cultivated land showed a decreasing trend from 2001 to 2003, and a growth trend which slowed down after 2010.
Using regression model to analyze the trends of the desertification index, a third-order polynomial fitting equation was obtained: y = 0.0002 x 3 − 1.1989 x 2 + 2404.7 x − 2E + 06, correlation R 2 = 0.9643, which was extremely significant.