Changes in land use and land cover and soil organic carbon storage in the densely populated village landscapes of China''s Yangtze Plain from the 1940 to 2002
1940—2002年长江中下游平原乡村景观区域中土地利用覆被及其土壤有机碳储量变化

Over the past 60 years,the village landscapes of China's Yangtze Plain have undergone extremely rapid development,causing major changes in land use and land cover (LULC) and soil (and sediment) organic carbon (SOC). Here we present estimates of long-term changes in LULC and SOC in the top 30 cm of soils across the region from the 1940 to 2002 using a regional landscape sampling and upscaling approach. Fine-scale LULC estimates were obtained by field-validated high-resolution ecological mapping of 12 regiona...