Biodiversity science in China has seen rapid growth over recent decades, ranging from
baseline biodiversity studies to understanding the processes behind evolution across …

The world's biomes and their associated ecosystems are artificially fractured by geopolitical
boundaries that define countries. Yet 'transboundary'landscapes often overlap with …

Insufficient conservation measures and intense human disturbances gave rise to severe
landscape ecological risks (LERs) in transboundary areas, highlighting the significance of …

With most large carnivore populations and habitats suffering massive declines across the
world, efforts to restore their populations in the wild are of high conservation priority. China …

Aim Asian forests are becoming increasingly degraded and fragmented by the extensive
intensification of anthropogenic activities; these activities threaten wildlife and ecosystem …

Abstract The Amur leopard (Panthera pardus orientalis) is a critically endangered top
predator that struggles on the brink of extinction due to threats such as canine distemper …

Conventional approaches for the assessment of population abundance or trends are usually
based on a single source of information, such as counts or changes in demographic …

National park agglomerations are a collection of multiple types of regional protected areas,
and these agglomerations are of great importance for giving play to the functions of various …

Context Understanding how large carnivore guilds survive in human-dominated landscapes
is key to inform strategies for their conservation in the face of global carnivore declines …

Abstract The Chinese Loess Plateau has been the cradle of Chinese civilization and the
main human settlement in China for thousands of years, where anthropogenic activities are …