Understanding how chronic anthropogenic disturbances are distributed in space leads to
more effective conservation and management practices. This study provides a large‐scale …

Human uncontrolled land use is the main cause of ecosystem degradation and increased
rock desertification in karst areas of Southern China. Landscape ecological quality …

The eco-system in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP) is extremely fragile, and highly
vulnerable to climate change. Knowledge of the changes in the ecological conditions is vital …

Wilderness protection is increasingly important in the era of the Sixth Extinction and the
Anthropocene. Mapping environmental indicators along a continuum of human modification …

Maintaining ecological integrity is globally acknowledged as a strategic goal, yet there is no
consensus on a practical and widely usable methodology to assess it. This study proposes a …

Coal mining area is a special man–land system, where the ecological environment is
affected by coal mining and other human activities. While many studies have focused on …

An understanding of the trends and causes of wilderness change is critical in supporting
wilderness conservation. However, quantitative measurement of the driving mechanisms of …

The concept of ecological integrity has been applied widely to management of aquatic
systems, but still is considered by many to be too vague and difficult to quantify to be useful …

Various anthropogenic disturbances, such as urbanization, agricultural production, and
infrastructure development, are contributing to global and regional ecosystem degradation …

Environmental stressors associated with human land and water-use activities have
degraded many riparian ecosystems across the western United States. These stressors …