As a sensitive region, identifying land cover change in drylands is critical to understanding
global environmental change. However, the current findings related to land cover change in …

Nature-based Solutions (NBS) can improve urban areas' livability, and they are essential to
increase cities' resilience to anthropogenic activities and climate change. In addition, NBS …

Rapid urbanization of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) region has undoubtedly led to
changes in the scale, form, and pattern of cities to accommodate the expansion of industry …

The conflict between the human-environment is more prominent in densely populated areas
(DPA) where urban expansion is increasingly disturbing the ecological environment …

Recent decades have witnessed rapid global urban land (UL) expansion, which has caused
severe ecological and environmental issues. As major contributors to carbon emissions …

Land use activities play an essential role in habitat degradation and restoration. As priority
zones for global habitat conservation, studying the impact of land use activities on habitat …

Urban agglomerations (UAs) are the most active areas of urban land expansion. The
encroachment of urban land on large-scale ecological land has caused severe ecological …

Enhancing the connectivity of watershed ecological security patterns (ESPs) is increasingly
emphasized for preserving ecological processes. Yet the importance of small-scale …

Anthropogenic activities have dramatically altered land use/land cover (LULC), leading to
ecosystem service (ES) degradation and further ecological risks. Ecological risks are …

Urban zones across the world have experienced a massive expansion in recent decades,
affecting food production, carbon storage, and biodiversity, and further threatening the …