“…LUCC results in variations of elements in the land surface system, and its environmental impacts have been studied mainly from six aspects: (1) carbon cycling in terrestrial ecosystems Feng et al, 2013;Zhang et al, 2015), (2) climate and atmospheric components (Jiang et al, 2009;Deng et al, 2014;Peng et al, 2014;Zhang et al, 2016), (3) soil properties and land degradation (Fu et al, 1999;Zhang et al, 2007a;Jiang et al, 2015), (4) hydrological processes, water resources and quality Feng et al, 2012;Wu et al, 2012a;Yan et al, 2013), (5) biodiversity and ecosystem service value (Zhang et al, 2008b;Fu et al, 2015;Zhan, 2015;Wang et al, 2015a) and (6) complex environmental impacts at the regional level (Shi et al, 1999a;Cui et al, 2012;Liu et al, 2014b).…”