Land‐use change is fragmenting natural ecosystems, with major consequences for
biodiversity. This paper reviews fragmentation trends–historical and current–in China, the …

Many global environmental agendas, including halting biodiversity loss, reversing land
degradation, and limiting climate change, depend upon retaining forests with high …

Forest biodiversity and ecosystem services are hitherto predominantly quantified in forest
interiors, well away from edges. However, these edges also represent a substantial …

Abstract The Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) LiDAR provides new
spaceborne vegetation canopy structural information including relative canopy height …

Abstract The Central African region hosts the largest continuous tract of forest in Africa,
regulating global climate while providing essential resources and livelihoods for millions of …

Over the past 20 years, the mangrove landscape of Can Gio Mangrove Biosphere Reserve
(MBR) has undergone drastic changes in space and time. However, we know very little …

Featured Application Libraries of the R programming language, including RStoolbox, raster
and terra, were used to classify Landsat OLI-TIRS satellite images by k-means clustering …

Context The impact of construction land expansion on regional landscape sustainability
received significant attention, but the habitat isolation caused by such expansion across the …

Roads facilitate development in remote forest regions, often with detrimental consequences
for ecosystems. In the Congo Basin, unpaved logging roads used by timber firms, as well as …

The increasing pressures of urban development and agricultural expansion have significant
implications for land use and land cover (LULC) dynamics, particularly in ecologically …