Urban nature is critical to addressing sustainability challenges. Three concepts capture the
core of this field: Urban Ecosystem Services (UES, benefits humans derived from urban …

Urban and peri-urban ecosystems are subjected to an intense impact. The demand for
ecosystem services (ES) is higher in these areas. Nevertheless, despite the anthropogenic …

To facilitate sustainable urban development, a pressing issue is how to integrate the water-
energy-food nexus (WEF-Nexus) into the assessment of supply and demand of urban …

A goal of land change modelers should be to communicate scenarios of future change that
show the variety of possible future landscapes based on the consequences of management …

Healthy coupling of the food-water-land-ecosystem (FWLE) nexus is the basis for achieving
sustainable development (SD), and FWLE in drylands is frontier scientific issues in the study …

In an increasingly urbanized world, the concepts of ecosystem services and nature-based
solutions can help tackle grand challenges. However, ambiguity in their definitions and in …

The central areas of many Chinese cities have experienced large-scale urbanization in
recent decades, a trend that is affecting the quality of life of residents and posing challenges …

Understanding the complex impact of socio-ecological factors on ecosystem service trade-
offs and synergies (EST/ESS) is critical in delivering multiple benefits to various …

Green infrastructure (GI) conservation is essential for maintaining ecosystem services, and
has become one of the key questions in landscape ecological research, especially within …

Context Effectively estimating the influences of urban expansion on multiple ecosystem
services (ESs) is of great importance for improving urban planning in drylands. However …