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  • Open Access
8 Citations
1,443 Views
27 Pages

15 September 2025

Understanding the spatiotemporal dynamics and driving forces of ecosystem service values (ESVs) is essential for managing complex socioecological systems, particularly in biodiversity-rich mountainous protected areas. This study investigates the evol...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applying Systems Thinking to Enhance Ecosystem Services)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,207 Views
14 Pages

29 April 2021

Identifying how policy, socioeconomic factors, and environmental factors influence changes in human well-being (HWB) and conservation efficiency is important for ecological management and sustainable development, especially in the Giant Panda Nationa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
790 Views
20 Pages

11 February 2026

In 2021, China integrated over 80 nature reserves to establish the Giant Panda National Park (GPNP), creating the world’s largest contiguous habitat for giant panda conservation. To evaluate whether this unified management framework effectively...

(This article belongs to the Section Land Use, Impact Assessment and Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,692 Views
18 Pages

Spatial-Temporal Change for Ecological Intactness of Giant Panda National Park and Its Adjacent Areas in Sichuan Province, China

  • Chuan Luo,
  • Hao Yang,
  • Peng Luo,
  • Shiliang Liu,
  • Jun Wang,
  • Xu Wang,
  • Honglin Li,
  • Chengxiang Mou,
  • Li Mo and
  • Wenwen Xie
  • + 4 authors

15 June 2022

Human activities change the natural ecosystem and cause the decline of the intact ecosystem. Establishing an applicable and efficient human activity monitoring indicator system benefits China’s ambitious national park system construction. In th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mountain Biodiversity, Ecosystem Functioning and Services)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
11,678 Views
18 Pages

A Survey of the Wild Giant Panda Population and Habitat Reflects an Urgent In Situ Conservation Need: A Case of Meigu Dafengding National Nature Reserve

  • Yiqiong Zhang,
  • Wei Wei,
  • Shibu Qubi,
  • Minghua Chen,
  • Yihua Gong,
  • Hong Zhou,
  • Zejun Zhang,
  • Feiyun Yuan and
  • Han Han

27 September 2023

An important tool for conserving species and their habitats and achieving sustainable development is the establishment of national parks. The population ecology of the species to be conserved, including their population size and suitable habitat, nee...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Ecology, Conservation and Restoration of Threatened Animal)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,017 Views
16 Pages

27 August 2024

The Giant Panda National Park (GPNP) and its surrounding areas constitute a comprehensive ecosystem aimed at protecting the natural habitat of giant pandas, maintaining biodiversity, and ensuring ecological balance. Investigating the spatial correlat...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainability in Geographic Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,654 Views
15 Pages

Spatio-Temporal Evolution of Forest Landscape in China’s Giant Panda National Park: A Case Study of Jiudingshan Nature Reserve

  • Juan Wang,
  • Dan Zhao,
  • Xian’an Liu,
  • Qiufang Shao,
  • Danli Yang,
  • Fanru Zeng,
  • Yu Feng,
  • Shiqi Zhang,
  • Peihao Peng and
  • Jinping Liu

9 August 2023

The continuous prohibition of commercial logging and intensifying conservation endeavors have encompassed the implementation of the Natural Forest Conservation Program (NFCP) and the Grain-to-Green Program (GTGP) by the Chinese government since 1999....

(This article belongs to the Section Natural Hazards and Risk Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,101 Views
18 Pages

Changes in Plant Diversity and Community Structure of Different Degraded Habitats Under Restoration in the Niba Mountain Corridor of Giant Panda National Park

  • Qian Shen,
  • Dongling Zhang,
  • Ming Tang,
  • Ping Li,
  • Jingyi Liu,
  • Yuzhou Jiang,
  • Mingxia Fu,
  • Zhangmin Chen,
  • Xilin Xiong and
  • Biao Yang
  • + 1 author

27 December 2025

Habitat degradation and fragmentation pose severe threats to biodiversity in protected areas, including the Giant Panda National Park (GPNP). Effective restoration strategies are urgently needed to enhance habitat connectivity and support the recover...

(This article belongs to the Section Forest Biodiversity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,289 Views
24 Pages

1 July 2025

As critical zones for ecological conservation, national parks necessitate integrated management of transportation corridors (TCs) and ecosystem service value (ESV) to advance ecological civilisation. This study investigates the TC-ESV mutual construc...

(This article belongs to the Section Land Planning and Landscape Architecture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,600 Views
20 Pages

Identification of Rare Wildlife in the Field Environment Based on the Improved YOLOv5 Model

  • Xiaohui Su,
  • Jiawei Zhang,
  • Zhibin Ma,
  • Yanqi Dong,
  • Jiali Zi,
  • Nuo Xu,
  • Haiyan Zhang,
  • Fu Xu and
  • Feixiang Chen

26 April 2024

Research on wildlife monitoring methods is a crucial tool for the conservation of rare wildlife in China. However, the fact that rare wildlife monitoring images in field scenes are easily affected by complex scene information, poorly illuminated, obs...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Remote Sensing Image Processing Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
211 Views
39 Pages

26 September 2026

Ecosystem services in national parks are sensitive to land use/land cover (LULC) change, yet their long-term dynamics, spatial explanatory factors, and potential changes under future are rarely evaluated together at the scale of an entire park. This...

(This article belongs to the Section Forest Ecology and Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
944 Views
27 Pages

10 December 2025

Nature reserves serve as core spatial units for maintaining regional ecological security and biodiversity. Owing to their high ecosystem integrity, extensive vegetation cover, and low levels of disturbance, they play a crucial role in sustaining ecol...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Spatial Governance Strategies for Enhancing Agricultural Livelihoods at Rural-Urban Transition)