Vulnerability Comparison between Karst and Non-Karst Nature Reserves—With a Special Reference to Guizhou Province, China

Studying vulnerability has become one of the hot issues ecological research under global change and sustainable development scenarios. However, there are few studies focusing on karst areas, especially comparison between non-karst areas. This study integrated climate factors, soil vegetation social factors within a evaluation framework that combined analytical hierarchy process (AHP) technique to evaluate compare environments 10 nature reserves five in Guizhou Province, China. The results were divided into categories: potential, light, moderate, severe, extremely severe vulnerability. indicated general national Province showed moderate index was significantly higher than reserves. vulnerability, while light Average thickness, arable area, length roads may be contributing significant difference Overall, this is conducive comprehensive understanding environment status great significance maintaining security