Green infrastructure is a strategically planned network of natural and semi-natural areas,
including green and blue spaces and other ecosystems, designed and managed to deliver a …

A common challenge in species conservation and management is how to incorporate
species movements into management objectives. There often is a lack of knowledge of …

Twenty-five years since foundational publications on valuing ecosystem services for human
well-being 1, 2, addressing the global biodiversity crisis 3 still implies confronting barriers to …

The comprehensive effect of multi-source factors changes the landscape structure and
reduces the quality of landscape ecology in large-scale opencast coal mine area, resulting …

Rapid urbanization has led to increasingly fragmented urban habitat patches, and the
biodiversity within these patches and in their surrounding areas is severely threatened. This …

Context As urbanization continues, ecosystem stability faces serious challenges. Ecological
security patterns have become a main tool with which the contradictions between economic …

We conducted an analysis of global forest cover to reveal that 70% of remaining forest is
within 1 km of the forest's edge, subject to the degrading effects of fragmentation. A synthesis …

Abstract The Three-North Shelterbelt (TNS) program is one of China's major ecological
restoration projects over the past few decades. However, evaluation of the ecological …

How does nature work in our human-created city, suburb, and exurb/peri-urb? Indeed how is
ecology-including its urban water, soil, air, plant, and animal foundations-spatially entwined …

Building regional ecological network can alleviate the notable contradiction between land
use and ecological development in the process of rapid urbanization. Suzhou is the center …