Abstract:Land use/cover change and its driving force have become the hot topic of ecologists and geographers within recent years with farmland loss due to population growth. However, most research works carried out at present are focused on the role of human factors on land use/land cover change, for example population growth, grain demand, road construction, urban expansion, policy change and others. In fact, apart from the human factors, the land use/land cover change on macro scale is more dependent on the natura...