[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).