The land use and land cover change (LUCC) associated with climate change and human
activities is supposed to exert a significant effect on ecosystem functions in arid inland …

Soil organic carbon (SOC) storage in arid inland regions is significantly affected by land use
and land cover change (LUCC) associated with climate change and agricultural activities. A …

There remain considerable controversies over payments for ecosystem services (PES) as an
essential approach to improving ecosystem services. This study reviewed various definitions …

Accurate streamflow forecasting is critical in the domain of water resources management.
However, the inherently non-stationary and stochastic nature of streamflow poses a …

Study region The ecological barrier region is located in the northeastern of the Qinghai-Tibet
Plateau, western China, serves as an important ecological security barrier and water …

Grassland degradation has caused increasingly prominent conflict between ecological
environment conservation and socioeconomic development in the Qilian Mountains, China …

Understanding how extreme climates affect vegetation is of great importance for the
protection of ecosystems. However, most of previous studies focused on the impact of …

Qilian Mountains is an important ecological security barrier and water conservation area in
western China, with an important ecological status. Conducting research on ecosystem …

During the past several decades, the carbon budget in the dryland ecosystem has
experienced great variation under the joint impact of climate change and anthropogenic …

With increasing human impacts on the ecosystem in natural protected areas, there is an
urgent need to undertake an assessment of ecological carrying capacity taken as a …