Soil structure and microbiome functions in agroecosystems

M Hartmann, J Six - Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 2023 - nature.com
Soil microbiomes drive key functions in agroecosystems, determining soil fertility, crop
productivity and stress tolerance. The microbiome is intricately linked with soil structure …

Towards the progress of ecological restoration and economic development in China's Loess Plateau and strategy for more sustainable development

L Yurui, Z Xuanchang, C Zhi, L Zhengjia, L Zhi… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract China's Loess Plateau (LP) is one of the most typical regions with serious soil
erosion. Its ecological restoration, economic development, and social progress are directly …

Reconstructing three decades of land use and land cover changes in brazilian biomes with landsat archive and earth engine

CM Souza Jr, J Z. Shimbo, MR Rosa, LL Parente… - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
Brazil has a monitoring system to track annual forest conversion in the Amazon and most
recently to monitor the Cerrado biome. However, there is still a gap of annual land use and …

Comparison of random forest, k-nearest neighbor, and support vector machine classifiers for land cover classification using Sentinel-2 imagery

P Thanh Noi, M Kappas - Sensors, 2017 - mdpi.com
In previous classification studies, three non-parametric classifiers, Random Forest (RF), k-
Nearest Neighbor (kNN), and Support Vector Machine (SVM), were reported as the foremost …

Middle-range theories of land system change

P Meyfroidt, RR Chowdhury, A de Bremond… - Global environmental …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Changes in land systems generate many sustainability challenges. Identifying more
sustainable land-use alternatives requires solid theoretical foundations on the causes of …

Fuzzy evaluation of the ecological security of land resources in mainland China based on the Pressure-State-Response framework

H Cheng, L Zhu, J Meng - Science of the Total Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
The extensive exploitation and use of land resources has caused a variety of land
degradation problems including soil erosion, desertification and salinization in China, which …

[HTML][HTML] Safeguarding human health in the Anthropocene epoch: report of The Rockefeller Foundation–Lancet Commission on planetary health

S Whitmee, A Haines, C Beyrer, F Boltz, AG Capon… - The lancet, 2015 - thelancet.com
Executive summary Far-reaching changes to the structure and function of the Earth's natural
systems represent a growing threat to human health. And yet, global health has mainly …

Ecosystem management as a wicked problem

R DeFries, H Nagendra - Science, 2017 - science.org
Ecosystems are self-regulating systems that provide societies with food, water, timber, and
other resources. As demands for resources increase, management decisions are replacing …

Impacts of urbanization-induced land-use changes on ecosystem services: A case study of the Pearl River Delta Metropolitan Region, China

W Liu, J Zhan, F Zhao, H Yan, F Zhang, X Wei - Ecological Indicators, 2019 - Elsevier
Ecosystem services value has decreased rapidly caused by land use/land cover changes
driven by urbanization during the past decades. Expanding urbanization not only changes …

China's livestock transition: Driving forces, impacts, and consequences

Z Bai, W Ma, L Ma, GL Velthof, Z Wei, P Havlík… - Science …, 2018 - science.org
China's livestock industry has experienced a vast transition during the last three decades,
with profound effects on domestic and global food provision, resource use, nitrogen and …