ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Environ. Sci.
Sec. Land Use Dynamics
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2025.1647659
Spatio -temporal Evolution Trajectories and Dynamic Interactions of Arable Land Multifunctionality in China's Major Grain-Producing Regions
Provisionally accepted
- 1Dongguan University of Technology, Dongguan, China
- 2University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
- 3Guangxi University of Finance and Economics, Nanning, China
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Against the backdrop of achieving coordinated multifunctional arable land utilization, to investigates the development levels, spatio -temporal evolution, and dynamic interactions among different arable land functions in major grain-producing areas, and further clarify the intrinsic logic of multifunctional trade-offs. Based on the constructed production-social-ecological multifunctional evaluation system, the entropy method, Kernel density estimation, Markov chain method and PVAR model are comprehensively employed to depict the empirical test. The results are as follows: (1) The production function, social function, and ecological function of arable land in the major grain-producing areas generally remain at relatively low levels overall, exhibiting distinct divergent evolutionary characteristics and heterogeneous spatial distribution patterns, with evident trade-offs among different functions across provinces. (2) While the overall disparities in all functions across the 13 grain-producing provinces have significantly narrowed, there exists a potential widening tendency in interprovincial gaps for both production and social functions. (3) The inter -provincial differences in all three major functions demonstrate gradual, incremental dynamic evolution with strong state stability. (4) The dynamic utility pathways of the three functions of arable land are obviously different, and a mutually reinforcing interactive relationship exists between the production function and ecological function, whereas the both functions respectively exhibit inhibitory interactions with the social function. This study provides empirical evidence for deepening the understanding of spatio -temporal dynamic evolution trends of different arable land functions in 13 major grain-producing provinces and promoting functional coordination.
Keywords: Arable land multifunctionality, production function, social function, ecological function, Dynamic distribution, Dynamic interaction
Received: 16 Jun 2025; Accepted: 30 Jul 2025.
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* Correspondence: Feng Lu, Guangxi University of Finance and Economics, Nanning, China
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