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In order to quantitatively assess the causes of spatial and temporal variation of grasslands in Xilingol, this study assessed the spatial and temporal evolution patterns of grassland health based on MOD13A1 long time series Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) data from 2000\u20132019 using trend analysis. The geodetector model was used to explore the dominant drivers of spatial variation in grassland NDVI, combined with 34 factors covering natural environmental changes and human disturbances over the same period. The results show that the grasslands of Xilingol showed an overall recovery trend from 2000 to 2019, with an average annual NDVI growth rate of 0.0028\/a, a monthly increasing rate of 0.0005\/month, and 68.06% of the grassland at an average recovery level. Moisture-dominated natural climate change factors, such as Growing Season Precipitation (Prep2), Annual Mean Water Vapor Pressure (WVP), and Annual Mean Relative Humidity (RH), were the underlying cause of grassland health changes during the study period, with the highest explanatory factor being growing season precipitation (q value of 0.59 on a multi-year average). The influence of primary production value among human activities was greater, and the explanatory factor of tertiary production value showed an increasing trend. The interactions among natural and anthropogenic factors significantly enhances their explanatory credibility for NDVI, with the type of interaction dominated by the two-factor enhancement. Risk detection of the top 10 dominant drivers in terms of q statistic were carried out to obtain the threshold range of each driver in the high zone of grassland NDVI, which can provide a scientific reference for the sustainable restoration of grassland.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs14205179","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,10,17]],"date-time":"2022-10-17T05:08:02Z","timestamp":1665983282000},"page":"5179","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":12,"title":["Analysis of the Spatial and Temporal Evolution Patterns of Grassland Health and Its Driving Factors in Xilingol"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"given":"Kaimin","family":"Wang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China"},{"name":"University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Chunxiang","family":"Cao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Bo","family":"Xie","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"The 9th Academy Unmanned System Center, China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, Beijing 100094, China"},{"name":"Aerospace Times Feihong Technology Company Limited, Beijing 100094, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Min","family":"Xu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Xinwei","family":"Yang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Heyi","family":"Guo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China"},{"name":"University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Robert Shea","family":"Duerler","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China"},{"name":"University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,10,17]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"4015","DOI":"10.1073\/pnas.1700304115","article-title":"Climate change, human impacts, and carbon sequestration in China","volume":"115","author":"Fang","year":"2018","journal-title":"Proc. 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