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Peri-urban vegetation, which delivers a diversity of fundamental services, sustains increasing pressures from human activities. Characterizing the socioeconomic drivers of vegetated landscape pattern changes can inform ecological management. Vegetated landscape pattern changes, (including paddy, dryland, woodland, forest, and perennial plantations) in Tiaoxi watershed (China) between 1985 and 2009, were characterized using a set of landscape metrics. Their relationships with socioeconomic development were quantified by multivariable regression. Results showed that Tiaoxi watershed experienced rapid socioeconomic development based on a set of indicators (demography, economy, and social activities). Vegetated landscapes were less abundant and connected, and became more irregular, fragmented, and diverse at landscape level. At class level, increasing fragmentation and isolation were …