Assessing the effects of China's three-north shelter forest program over 40 years

J Zhai, L Wang, Y Liu, C Wang, X Mao - Science of the Total Environment, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Forests provide vital ecosystem services such as soil and water conservation, climate
regulation, and carbon storage. Large-scale afforestation programs are being attempted in …

Diverse policies leading to contrasting impacts on land cover and ecosystem services in Northeast China

D Mao, X He, Z Wang, Y Tian, H **ang, H Yu… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Understanding where important ecosystem services originate in space and how they
change in time is essential for sustainable ecosystem management. Spatially explicit …

Quantifying the effectiveness of ecological restoration projects on long-term vegetation dynamics in the karst regions of Southwest China

X Tong, K Wang, Y Yue, M Brandt, B Liu… - International Journal of …, 2017‏ - Elsevier
To alleviate the severe rocky desertification and improve the ecological degradation
conditions in Southwest China, the national and local Chinese governments have …

Multiple afforestation programs accelerate the greenness in the 'Three North'region of China from 1982 to 2013

Y Zhang, C Peng, W Li, L Tian, Q Zhu, H Chen… - Ecological …, 2016‏ - Elsevier
China has launched multiple afforestation programs since 1978, including the 'Three
North'Shelterbelt Development Program (TNSDP), the Bei**g–Tian** Sand Source Control …

Land use and land cover change in Inner Mongolia-understanding the effects of China's re-vegetation programs

H Yin, D Pflugmacher, A Li, Z Li, P Hostert - Remote Sensing of …, 2018‏ - Elsevier
During the past decades, overuse of land resources has increasingly contributed to
environmental crises in China. To mitigate wide-spread land degradation, actions have …

Dynamic analysis of ecological environment combined with land cover and NDVI changes and implications for sustainable urban–rural development: The case of Mu …

Y Li, Z Cao, H Long, Y Liu, W Li - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Climate change and human activities have affected ecological environment in recent
decades. This paper investigates the ecological environment change of the Mu Us sandy …

How did the Chinese Loess Plateau turn green from 2001 to 2020? An explanation using satellite data

L He, J Guo, Q Jiang, Z Zhang, S Yu - Catena, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Vegetation growth of the Chinese Loess Plateau (CLP) has improved since the launch of the
Grain to Green Programme. This study examined the mechanism of spatial differentiation of …

Historical landscape dynamics of Inner Mongolia: patterns, drivers, and impacts

J Wu, Q Zhang, A Li, C Liang - Landscape Ecology, 2015‏ - Springer
Context Understanding the causes and consequences of land use and land cover change in
drylands is crucial for global sustainability. Inner Mongolia consists of arid and semiarid …

[HTML][HTML] NDVI-based long-term vegetation dynamics and its response to climatic change in the Mongolian Plateau

G Bao, Z Qin, Y Bao, Y Zhou, W Li, A Sanjjav - Remote Sensing, 2014‏ - mdpi.com
The response of vegetation to regional climate change was quantified between 1982 and
2010 in the Mongolian plateau by integrating the Advanced Very High Resolution …

Assessment of the capability of remote sensing and GIS techniques for monitoring reclamation success in coal mine degraded lands

SK Karan, SR Samadder, SK Maiti - Journal of environmental management, 2016‏ - Elsevier
The objective of the present study is to monitor reclamation activity in mining areas.
Monitoring of these reclaimed sites in the vicinity of mining areas and on closed Over …