Context Landscape connectivity plays a key role in determining the persistence of species
inhabiting fragmented habitat patches. In dynamic landscapes, most studies measure …

Exploring the factors influencing ecosystem services (ESs) is crucial for protecting them.
Habitat fragmentation is a critical factor that has been proved to have positive or negative …

Negative impacts of urban heat island (UHI) are exacerbated by rapid urbanization. To
address insufficient on construction of key areas for UHI mitigation, source-sink theory and …

The use of various modeling approaches is critical in the assessment of ecosystem services.
Although numerous assessments have been conducted as scholarly studies to quantify …

Despite advances in understanding the effects of landscape structure on ecosystem services
(ES), many challenges related to these complex spatial interactions remain. In particular, the …

Landscape pattern, ecosystem service value (ESV), and human well-being are closely
related. Determining the link between the three is significant to the realization of regional …

Global biodiversity is declining rapidly, posing a severe threat to ecosystem functions and
services. Protected Areas (PAs) can be extremely effective in protecting biodiversity, but …

The urban–rural transitional areas in southwestern China are crucial in the creation of
sustainable ecosystems, which have the characteristics of mountain–plain transitions …

Global environmental changes, including landscape fragmentation, are threatening the
integrity of ecosystems and reducing their capacity to deliver ecosystem services. Spatial …

Context Land use and land cover (LULC) changes may affect the provision of ecosystem
services. However, little is known how LULC changes influence the spatio-temporal …