Urban heat island (UHI) effect is a common urban problem in the process of rapid
urbanization. It is also widely considered as one of the most critical global problems in the …

Scenario analysis (SA) provides a useful tool to envision the future conditions of urban
ecosystem services (UES), but our understanding of how SA has been used in UES …

In recent decades, the world has witnessed a remarkable surge in urban expansion, leading
to profound consequences for the global climate, biodiversity, and ecological environment …

Decades of intensifying human activities have caused dramatic changes in land use and
land cover (LULC) in the ecologically fragile areas of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, which have …

The ecosystems provide a range of material as well as non-material services that contribute
to human well-being as well as supply necessary resources for the organisms. The land …

This paper presents global research trends involving highly cited articles on ecosystem
services from 1981 to 2017 based on a bibliometric analysis of such articles from the SCI-E …

The temporal and spatial characteristics of landscape pattern change can reflect the spatial
impact of urbanization on the ecological environment. Studying the relationship between …

Since it was first described about two centuries ago and due to its adverse impacts on urban
ecological environment and the overall livability of cities, the urban heat island (UHI) …

Tracking progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requires monitoring
of various social-ecological indicators over space and time, including the ratio of land …

Environmental managers have been striving to optimize landscape structure to achieve a
sustained supply of ecosystem services (ESs). However, we still lack a full understanding of …