Grassland ecosystem services: a systematic review of research advances and future directions

Y Zhao, Z Liu, J Wu - Landscape Ecology, 2020 - Springer
Context Grasslands provide a variety of ecosystem services (ESs) for humans. While much
ES research has focused on forests and wetlands, synthesizing the currently somewhat …

Holocene fire activity during low-natural flammability periods reveals scale-dependent cultural human-fire relationships in Europe

E Dietze, M Theuerkauf, K Bloom, A Brauer… - Quaternary Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
Fire is a natural component of global biogeochemical cycles and closely related to changes
in human land use. Whereas climate-fuel relationships seem to drive both global and …

[HTML][HTML] Impacts of urbanization on land use/cover changes and its probable implications on local climate and groundwater level

S Patra, S Sahoo, P Mishra, SC Mahapatra - Journal of urban management, 2018 - Elsevier
Given that urbanization is considered as one of the most significant anthropogenic
alterations of the environmental framework, the present study attempts to understand …

Determining the contributions of climate change and human activities to vegetation dynamics in agro-pastural transitional zone of northern China from 2000 to 2015

H Jiang, X Xu, M Guan, L Wang, Y Huang… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
The vegetation in the agro-pastoral transitional zone of northern China (APTZNC) was
significantly restored, and both climate change and ecological restoration projects …

Spatial-temporal changes in ecosystem services and the trade-off relationship in mountain regions: A case study of Hengduan Mountain region in Southwest China

Y Wang, E Dai - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2020 - Elsevier
Mountain regions are usually regarded as important ecological functional areas that provide
various ecosystem services to the people living in the mountains and surrounding areas …

Impacts of changes in climate and landscape pattern on ecosystem services

R Hao, D Yu, Y Liu, Y Liu, J Qiao, X Wang… - Science of the Total …, 2017 - Elsevier
The restoration of degraded vegetation can effectively improve ecosystem services, increase
human well-being, and promote regional sustainable development. Understanding the …

Vegetation restoration dominated the variation of water use efficiency in China

Y Xue, H Liang, B Zhang, C He - Journal of Hydrology, 2022 - Elsevier
Implementation of numerous ecological restoration programs over the last two decades has
significantly increased vegetation coverage in China. However, the response of the coupled …

Cropland expansion outweighs the monetary effect of declining natural vegetation on ecosystem services in sub-Saharan Africa

AA Fenta, A Tsunekawa, N Haregeweyn, M Tsubo… - Ecosystem Services, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Changes in land cover and land degradation alter natural ecosystems, thereby
affecting the services these ecosystems provide. However, there have been few attempts to …

Numerical assessment of the urban green space scenarios on urban heat island and thermal comfort level in Tehran Metropolis

S Arghavani, H Malakooti, AAAA Bidokhti - Journal of cleaner production, 2020 - Elsevier
The growing rate of urbanization and alterations in natural land-use/land-cover properties
cause many worldwide environmental issues such as Urban Heat Island (UHI), low Thermal …

Impacts of land use and land cover changes on regional climate in the Lhasa River basin, Tibetan Plateau

D Li, P Tian, H Luo, T Hu, B Dong, Y Cui, S Khan… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Land use and land cover change (LUCC) can alter land surface-atmosphere interactions in
the exchange of energy fluxes, with additional consequences on temperature …