Soil biota influences nutrient cycling and climate regulation and represents an important
fraction of global biodiversity, yet we know very little about how this soil biota responds to …

Afforestation, an important measure for ecological restoration, has been implemented all
over the world, but fragile ecosystem structures and climate change endanger its ecological …

Ecosystem service value (ESV) is an important indicator used to measure the quality of the
regional ecological environment, and land use/cover change (LUCC) has a crucial impact …

Studying the spatiotemporal distribution characteristics of territorial space development
intensity (TSDI) and its habitat quality (HQ) response is of substantial theoretical and …

Context Biodiversity loss is predicted to have significant impacts on ecosystem services
based on previous ecological work at small spatial and temporal scales. However, scaling …

Realizing the superior stability of natural resources for regional economic growth depends
on the construction of the Ecological Security Pattern (ESP) 1. The ESP of Hubei Province …

Accelerating efforts for the Sustainable Development Goals requires understanding their
synergies and trade-offs at the national and sub-national levels, which will help identify the …

The mouth areas of large rivers can serve as a good model of heterogeneity sites with a
pronounced trophic gradient to assess the impact of the degree of eutrophication on different …

Introduction Rhizosphere bacterial communities play a crucial role in promoting plant and
soil ecosystem health and productivity. They also have great potential as key indicators of …

Increasing landscape heterogeneity has been suggested to be an important strategy to
strengthen natural pest control in crops, especially through enhancing the amount of …