Human population continues to aggregate in urban centers. This inevitably increases the
urban footprint with significant consequences for biodiversity, climate, and environmental …

Small area population forecasts are widely used by government and business for a variety of
planning, research and policy purposes, and often influence major investment decisions …

The socio-demographic factors have a substantial impact on the overall casualties caused
by the Coronavirus (COVID-19). In this study, the global and local spatial association …

Purpose This study creates a COVID‐19 susceptibility scale at the county level, describes its
components, and then assesses the health and socioeconomic resiliency of susceptible …

Globally, urbanization dramatically undermines ecosystem services (ESs). How to relieve
the disturbance of urbanization level (UL) on ESs has become an urgent issue for achieving …

A clear understanding of the relationship between ecosystem services (ESs) and
urbanization provides new insight into urban landscape planning and decision making …

Since December 2019, the world has witnessed the stringent effect of an unprecedented
global pandemic, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by the severe acute …

Ecosystem services are increasingly affected by land use and land cover change (LULCC)
in China. However, the spatial association between LULCC and ecosystem services …

Landscape fragmentation due to urban sprawl and industrialization has caused habitat loss
and threatened global biodiversity. However, the magnitude, spatial pattern, and …

Rapid urbanisation in global urban agglomerations has caused serious disturbances to the
structure, function, and health state of ecosystems. Investigating the driving mechanisms …