Correction: Z. Liu and Y. Liu. Does Anthropogenic Land Use Change Play a Role in Changes of Precipitation Frequency and Intensity over the Loess Plateau of China? Remote Sens. 2018, 10, 1818

After the year 2000, larger land use changes were observed across the entire Loess Plateau, but these land use conversions were very fragmented (Figure 2b). The increase in forests (+0.71%) and urban and built-up land (+0.50%) and the decrease in croplands (−0.71%), barren or sparsely vegetated lands (−0.32%), and grasslands (−0.22%) were major land use dynamics in the Loess Plateau. Specifically, in the land use dynamic process, conversion from croplands to grasslands and conversion from grasslands to croplands were major land use change types, accounting for 1.52% and 1.51% of the entire study area, respectively. The second were conversion from grasslands to forests, conversion from barren or sparsely vegetated lands to grasslands, and conversion from croplands to forests, accounting for 0.74%, 0.73% and 0.57%, respectively. One can see that land conservation dominated land use dynamics in the context of the ‘Grain for Green’ project [11,57]. In addition, there are also some regions with grassland degeneration (0.47%, mainly located in the northwestern Loess Plateau; the Mu Us Sandy Land). Please note that urban expansion mainly occupied croplands around urban and build-up land (0.40%).

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