Vegetation cover change is one of the key factors to evaluate ecological effect and governance effect.Based on the NDVI data of the Dongting Lake basin from 2000 to 2019,and combined with the temperature,precipitation and land data of the same period,The research uses the methods of Sen+Mann-Kendall,Hurst index,partial correlation analysis,residual analysis methods together to analyze the characteristics of spatio-temporal changes and future trends of vegetation cover in Dongting Lake basin.The main conclusions are as follows:1) In terms of time scale,NDVI in Dongting Lake basin shows a fluctu...