Abstract Changes in land use and ecosystem services influence each other and such
changes have consequences for human wellbeing. In this paper, we review the research …

The assessment of land use land cover change is extremely important for understanding the
relationship between humans and nature. The enormous changes at a regional scale and …

A comprehensive quantification of global forest fragmentation is urgently required to guide
forest protection, restoration and reforestation policies. Previous efforts focused on the static …

Abstract Knowledge of cultivated land conservation and construction land expansion in
China and its provincial scale is still insufficient due to the lack of accurate and reliable data …

Gross domestic product (GDP) summarizes a vast amount of economic information in a
single monetary metric that is widely used by decision makers around the world. However …

Land use/cover change (LUCC) is the result of interaction between human activities and
biophysical processes. Extensive researches have been done on LUCC in urban China, but …

Land use/cover change is an important theme on the impacts of human activities on the
earth systems and global environmental change. National land-use changes of China …

Tens of thousands of species are threatened with extinction as a result of human activities.
Here we explore how the extinction risks of terrestrial mammals and birds might change in …

Vegetation is a crucial component of terrestrial ecosystems, and its changes are driven
mainly by a combination of climate change and human activities. This paper aims to reveal …

Terrestrial ecosystem services can offer various kinds of benefits for human life and
production and play a critical role in the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals …