[HTML][HTML] Impacts of land-use change on habitat quality during 1985–2015 in the Taihu Lake Basin

L Xu, SS Chen, Y Xu, G Li, W Su - Sustainability, 2019 - mdpi.com
Habitat quality (HQ) is of great significance to regional sustainable development, which is a
key link for regional ecological security and human welfare. Assessing the temporal and …

Spatiotemporal variation of landscape patterns and their spatial determinants in Shanghai, China

Y Feng, Y Liu, X Tong - Ecological Indicators, 2018 - Elsevier
Landscape patterns are significantly affected by biophysical factors and human activities,
and the identification of their determinants is important in analyzing landscape changes. We …

Effect of land use change on ecosystem services in Lake Balaton Catchment

Á Kertész, LA Nagy, B Balázs - Land use policy, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Land Use and Land Cover Changes (LULCC) are interrelated with other global
processes like global climate change, population growth, land degradation etc. Land use …

Nature‐based solutions: The need to increase the knowledge on their potentialities and limits

JP Fernandes, N Guiomar - Land degradation & development, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
This paper analyzes the concept of nature‐based solutions as instruments to turn anthromes
more nature compatible, efficient, causing less degradation, and developing new …

Dynamic changes in landscape pattern in a large-scale opencast coal mine area from 1986 to 2015: A complex network approach

M Zhang, J Wang, S Li, D Feng, E Cao - Catena, 2020 - Elsevier
Coal is the main resource in China, and opencast mining plays an important role. The
impact of coal mining on landscape ecology is huge. Based on the interpreted six-phase …

[HTML][HTML] Improvement in satellite image-based land cover classification with landscape metrics

A Gudmann, N Csikós, P Szilassi, L Mucsi - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
The use of an object-based image analysis (OBIA) method has recently become quite
common for classifying high-resolution remote-sensed images. However, despite OBIA's …

Small-scale agricultural landscapes promote spider and ground beetle densities by offering suitable overwintering sites

R Gallé, P Császár, T Makra, N Gallé-Szpisjak… - Landscape …, 2018 - Springer
Context Intensive agricultural management practices and landscape homogenisation are
the main drivers of biodiversity loss in agricultural landscapes. Agricultural fields are …

Elucidating human–nature connectedness in three EU countries: A pro‐environmental behaviour perspective

G Mikusiński, M Elbakidze, EH Orlikowska… - People and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Strengthening positive human–nature relationships is seen as a way to more pro‐
environmental behaviour and leads to a greater environmental sustainability. Therefore …

[HTML][HTML] Study on the spatial variation of China's territorial ecological space based on the standard deviation ellipse

Y Zhang, P Jiang, L Cui, Y Yang, Z Ma… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
With the rapid development of China's economy and the acceleration of urbanization, the
rapid expansion of urban space has led to a growing demand for land that has resulted in …

[HTML][HTML] Landscape pattern evolution and its response to human disturbance in a newly metropolitan area: A case study in Jin-Yi Metropolitan Area

T Wu, P Zha, M Yu, G Jiang, J Zhang, Q You, X Xie - Land, 2021 - mdpi.com
The impact of human interference on the ecological environment has attracted a significant
amount of attention. In this study, hemeroby index (HI) was constructed to quantify the …