Abstract The Himalaya Plateau including Nepal is' greening up'that has important
implications to ecosystem services such as water supply, carbon sequestration, and local …

Community forestry is a strategy in which communities are, to some degree, responsible for
managing the forests, using a more participatory approach to replace the traditional top …

Advent of cloud computing and Google Earth Engine has completely changed the way we
acquire, manage and process large satellite data. Here, we analyze temporal dynamics of …

In pursuit of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), land cover change (LCC) has been
utilized to explore different dynamic processes such as farmland abandonment and urban …

Global climate warming has profoundly affected terrestrial ecosystems. The Tibetan Plateau
(TP) is an ecologically vulnerable region that emerged as an ideal place for investigating the …

Understanding the vegetation dynamics and their drivers in Nepal has significant scientific
reference value for implementing sustainable ecological policies. This study provides a …

Ecological stability is a critical factor in global sustainable development, yet its significance
has been overlooked. Here we introduce a landscape-oriented framework to evaluate …

To achieve the dual goal of poverty alleviation and ecological restoration, the policy of
ecological forest rangers (EFRs) was implemented in rural poverty-stricken areas in China …

As an important part of the ecosystem, green vegetation coverage is crucial to people's
sensory and mental health. Using reliable data sets to classify and identify the green …

The Willamette Valley, bounded to the west by the Coast Range and to the east by the
Cascade Mountains, is the largest river valley completely confined to Oregon. The fertile …