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

The grassland ecosystems cover above 60% of Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP) and provide
important ecosystem services and functions at local and regional scales. However, both …

Landscape pattern evolution leads to changes of landscape spatial structure, which are
intuitively reflected in the changes of ecosystem structure and composition and finally affect …

Pastoralist communities all over Africa have been facing a variety of social and economic
problems, as well as climate risks and hazards for many years. They have also been …

Climate change has adversely affected pastoral community in Pakistan through increased
severity of livestock diseases, floods, and drought. These climatic hazards caused extensive …

Vulnerability analysis is important for enhancing sustainability, especially for highly
interlinked pastoral socio-ecological systems. This study presents a modified …

Global policies to mitigate climate change and protect forests are increasingly incentivizing
the large-scale planting of trees. Yet tree planting poses a potential threat to the well-being …

The alpine regions of Tibet are biogeographically unique and highly biodiverse. As the
political, economic, and cultural center of Tibet, the city of Lhasa's population growth and …

Abstract Most pastoralists' in Sub Saharan Africa (SSA) are adversely affected by climate-
change related shocks such as droughts and livestock diseases. These shocks lead to …

Communities in dryland ecosystems face multiple stressors that threaten their livelihood
resilience. While community resilience in socio‐ecological systems is largely determined by …