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 …

Land use and climate change are important factors that help in driving changes in
ecosystem services (ES); understanding the mechanisms behind the changes is critical to …

Protected areas are essential for the conservation of biodiversity, natural and cultural
resources, and contribute to regional and global sustainable development. However, since …

Since 2011, the Chinese government has been implementing a series of comprehensive
rock desertification control projects. Concurrently, the relevant ecosystem service functions …

Understanding changes of ecosystem services and their influencing factors is crucial for
more sustainable ecosystem management and conservation of nature contributions to …

Geographic and temporal patterns of ecosystem service value (ESV) and their dynamic
coupling response to human activity and climate change are critical for allocating land …

Protected areas (PAs) play a key role in mitigating ecological crises. Currently, priority
protected areas (PPAs) focus on biological conservation, and a few studies have considered …

Rapid urbanization in China's urban agglomerations has severely disrupted the relationship
between supply and demand for ecosystem services (ESs). Exploring the spatial and …

Agricultural expansion has led to a large-scale loss of natural vegetation and landscape
fragmentation, seriously threatening biodiversity. In addition to directly encroaching on …

Gaining knowledge about vegetation sensitivity in response to climate change is a current
research priority in the context of accelerated shifts generated by global warming, especially …