Title
Influential Factors of Spatial Distribution of Wheat Yield in China During 1978–2007: A Spatial Econometric Analysis
Abstract
Wheat is an important staple food for China in terms of production and consumption; the increase of wheat productivity is critical to food self-sufficiency for China. The major objective of this paper is to examine the spatial distribution of wheat yields in China and then to analyze the underlying causes for the trends. For this purpose, we first apply methods of exploratory spatial data analysis (ESDA) to check the spatial and temporal patterns of wheat yields with a panel data set of 30 years over the main wheat production provinces in China. By Moran's I scatter plots and local indicators of spatial association (LISA) map, it shows that spatial autocorrelation seems to affect wheat productivity and that the geographical distribution of high yields temporally varied. It also shows spatial and temporal variation differences of the location of the spatial cluster of wheat yields. Then, we use the spatial econometric modeling to further investigate the influential factors of the spatial and temporal variation differences of wheat productivity which intrinsically is a natural-social-economic composition affected by climate change and adaptive managements. The results suggest that the combination of spatial and statistical data in the spatial econometric modeling does provide more reliable impact assessments and analysis which could provide the provincial government a way to improve adaptive management to cope with the future climate change and keep the yield increasing.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/JSTARS.2014.2325898
Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, IEEE Journal of  
Keywords
Field
DocType
crops,data analysis,econometrics,statistical analysis,vegetation mapping,ad 1978 to 207,china,moran's i scatter plots,adaptive management,adaptive managements,food self-sufficiency,future climate change,geographical distribution,impact assessments,local indicators of spatial association map,natural-social-economic composition,panel data set,provincial government,spatial autocorrelation,spatial cluster,spatial data analysis,spatial econometric modeling,spatial pattern,spatial variation difference,staple food,statistical data,temporal pattern,temporal variation difference,wheat consumption,wheat production provinces,wheat productivity,wheat yield spatial distribution,spatial econometrics,spatial heterogeneity,wheat yields,meteorology,agriculture,productivity,data models
Econometrics,Spatial analysis,Panel data,Climate change,Remote sensing,Econometric model,Staple food,Adaptive management,Scatter plot,Mathematics,Spatial distribution
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
7
11
1939-1404
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Min Min141.19
wei zhao200.34
te hu322.07
jiaying chen471.53
xin nie500.34