[Table 7]
All factors explained 31.1% of the EHI, while the explanatory power of
the UI was 85.7% (Fig 11). Economic factors presented negative effects
on EHI, while were significantly positive with UI, with path
coefficients of -0.3, 0.45, respectively. The path coefficient of
climate was 0.57 on EHI and -0.11 on UI. Meanwhile, social factors and
topography exhibited positive effects on both. A positive coefficient
value with 0.06 was disclosed between UI and EHI, suggesting that
urbanization had a total positive effect on national terrestrial
ecosystem health. Additionally, social factors, economic factors,
climate and topography indirectly drove EHI, among which the value of
social factors, economic factors were >0.02 (Table S10).