Climatic extremes are becoming increasingly common against a background trend of global
warming. In the oceans, marine heatwaves (MHWs)—discrete periods of anomalously warm …

Grasslands are under severe threat from ongoing degradation, undermining their capacity to
support biodiversity, ecosystem services and human well-being. Yet, grasslands are largely …

生态系统服务价值是生态保护, 生态功能区划, 自然资产核算和生态补偿决策的依据和基础,
并且生态系统服务功能呈现出与生态结构和生态功能密切相关的时空动态变化特征 …

Abstract China has 6.6 million km2 of drylands that support approximately 580 million
people. These drylands are at risk of desertification. In this Review, the changes observed in …

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed an interconnected and tightly coupled globalized
world in rapid change. This article sets the scientific stage for understanding and responding …

BACKGROUND Anthropogenic climate change is altering the structure and functioning of
ecosystems globally. The upper layers of the oceans have absorbed> 90% of the excess …

While marine kelp forests have provided valuable ecosystem services for millennia, the
global ecological and economic value of those services is largely unresolved. Kelp forests …

The land use and land cover change (LUCC) associated with climate change and human
activities is supposed to exert a significant effect on ecosystem functions in arid inland …

Economics, like I imagine other scientific disciplines, normally moves in incremental steps,
and always without a central guide. Much like practitioners of other disciplines, we …

Key ecological function areas are responsible for protecting and restoring ecosystems and
alleviating regional ecological deterioration. Revealing the inherent relationship between …