To truly understand the current status of tropical diversity and to forecast future trends, we
need to increase emphasis on the study of biodiversity in rural landscapes that are actively …

The conflict over many decades between human resource needs and the environment has
led to increasingly prominent ecological and environmental problems in the Qilian …

As a result of the socioeconomic transformation, the rapid urban expansion of cities and
towns in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states has predominately led to tremendous …

The region of Al-Jabal Al-Akhdar in northeastern Libya has undergone rapid, wide-ranging
changes in the land use and land cover (LULC) intensified by the conversion of natural …

Numerous studies underline the importance of immaterial benefits provided by ecosystems
and especially by cultural landscapes, which are shaped by intimate human–nature …

Protected areas provide major benefits for humans in the form of ecosystem services, but
landscape degradation by human activity at their edges may compromise their ecological …

Abstract The Poplar Ecological Retreat (PER) project is a significant environmental
protection initiative implemented to protect the Dongting Lake wetlands ecosystem in China …

Many protected areas (PAs) have followed the conventional and exclusionary approach
applied at Yellowstone in 1872. As such, many parks have failed to fully integrate other …

Forests are important terrestrial carbon sinks and help in mitigating the emissions of CO2,
and other greenhouse gases (GHGs). Besides, it provides multiple ecosystem goods and …

This paper assesses the role of protected and community managed forests for the long term
maintenance of forest cover in the tropics. Through a meta-analysis of published case …