A legendary landscape in peril: Land use and land cover change and environmental impacts in the Wulagai River Basin, Inner Mongolia

C Shang, J Wu - Journal of Environmental Management, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Mongolian Plateau, home to the world's largest contiguous temperate
grasslands, has been known for its vast steppe landscapes and legendary history of the …

Landscape experiments unlock relationships among habitat loss, fragmentation, and patch‐size effects

RJ Fletcher Jr, TAH Smith, N Kortessis, EM Bruna… - Ecology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Habitat loss is often considered the greatest near‐term threat to biodiversity, while the
impact of habitat fragmentation remains intensely debated. A key issue of this debate …

Urbanization impact on landscape patterns in cultural heritage preservation sites: a case study of the complex of Huế Monuments, Vietnam

VM Pham, S Van Nghiem, C Van Pham, MPT Luu… - Landscape …, 2021 - Springer
Context The late 20th and early twenty-first centuries saw massive urbanizations across the
world, leading considerate changes in land-cover/land-use, and posing significant threats to …

Effect of agricultural landscape pattern on the qualitative food web of epigaeic arthropods in low hilly areas of northern China

Y Zhang, Z Bian, S Wang, X Guo, W Zhou - Ecological Modelling, 2024 - Elsevier
Under the macro background of global change and sustainable development, the
sustainable and healthy development of agricultural landscapes is crucial for human well …

农业景观异质性对地表节肢动物多样性影响的最优尺度分析

边振兴, 杨玉静, 果晓玉, 关明昊, 于淼 - 生态学杂志, 2022 - cje.net.cn
农业景观均质化与破碎化是近代农田生物多样丧失的重要原因之一. 为明确景观异质性对地表
节肢动物多样性的影响, 对下辽河平原典型农区——昌图县地表节肢动物多样性与不同尺度景观 …

The scale effects of landscape variables on landscape experiences: a multi-scale spatial analysis of social media data in an urban nature park context

P Chang, AS Olafsson - Landscape Ecology, 2022 - Springer
Context The roles of landscape variables regarding the recreational services provided by
nature parks have been widely studied. However, the potential scale effects of the …

Island biogeography theory predicts plant species richness of remnant grassland patches in the agro-pastoral ecotone of northern China

S Zhang, Q Zhang, Y Yan, P Han, Q Liu - Basic and Applied Ecology, 2021 - Elsevier
Habitat loss and fragmentation are critical threats that cause biodiversity loss. However, the
driving factors of species diversity in fragmented habitats are complex. This study was …

Species–area relationships of plants and microbes are driven by different mechanisms in patchy grassland fragments

Y Song, JM Chase, Y Zhou, M Xu, Y Xiao… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The island species–area relationship (SAR) describes how the number of species on an
island varies with its area and provides important information about the maintenance of …

Higher trophic levels and species with poorer dispersal traits are more susceptible to habitat loss on island fragments

Z Wang, JM Chase, W Xu, J Liu, D Wu, A Zhang… - Ecology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Ongoing habitat loss and fragmentation caused by human activities represent one of the
greatest causes of biodiversity loss. However, the effects of habitat loss and fragmentation …

Spatiotemporal patterns and ecological consequences of a fragmented landscape created by damming

G Hu, M Wilson, BB Zhou, C Shang, M Yu, J Wu - PeerJ, 2021 - peerj.com
Background Damming disrupts rivers and destroys neighboring terrestrial ecosystems
through inundation, resulting in profound and long-lasting impacts on biodiversity and …