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Research regarding the causes of vegetation changes can provide beneficial information for the management and construction of the ecological environment in the Yellow River Basin. In this study, after reconstructing the relationship between vegetation and climate change under natural conditions, topographic factors were introduced to understand vegetation change in the Yellow River Basin before and after the initiation of the Grain for Green Program, and the contribution rates of the driving factors of change were analyzed. Results show that human activities have had a great impact on the vegetation cover in the Yellow River Basin. We found that after the start of the Grain for Green Program, the vegetation recovery rate was more than six times (slope = 0.0067) that before its start (slope = 0.0011); high NDVI levels moved to lower altitudes, while low NDVI levels moved to high altitudes; and most vegetation types turned to gentle slopes. Human activities and climate change are the dominant factors influencing vegetation coverage, and the contribution rate of human activities had reached 59.3% after 2000, with a tendency to gradually dominate.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs14184607","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,9,16]],"date-time":"2022-09-16T01:35:10Z","timestamp":1663292110000},"page":"4607","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":36,"title":["Spatial\u2013Temporal Trends in and Attribution Analysis of Vegetation Change in the Yellow River Basin, China"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"given":"Shengqi","family":"Jian","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Yellow River Laboratory, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2234-6438","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Qiankun","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Yellow River Laboratory, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Huiliang","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Yellow River Laboratory, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,9,15]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Klimavi\u010dius, L., Rimkus, E., Stonevi\u010dius, E., and Ma\u010diulyt\u0117, V. 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