With the rapid development of the economy, China's urban area has faced dual pressure
from the population and land expansion, which has led to a deterioration of the ecological …

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 …

Uncovering the complex interactions among ecosystem services (ESs) is a prerequisite for
managing multiple ESs simultaneously. We mapped the supply of six ESs, quantified their …

Despite its small land coverage, urban land and its expansion have exhibited profound
impacts on global environments. Here, we present the scenario projections of global urban …

Social-economic development and urbanization greatly modify landscape patterns and their
associated ecological processes at regional scales, resulting in serious landscape …

Urbanization leads to significant changes in land-use types and affects various ecosystem
services. While previous studies have analyzed the interaction between urbanization and …

A land use simulation model with coupling constraints of ecological security patterns (ESPs)
and multiple scenarios (MSs) was developed using the PLUS model. The research scale …

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 …

The process of rapid urbanization makes our planet's natural ecosystems subject to strong
interferences of different kinds of human activities, which affect the relationship between …

The rapid and large-scale urbanization leads to drastic land-use conversion and impacts on
ecosystem services. The relationship between urbanization and ecosystem services not only …