Przewalski’s gazelle (Procapra przewalskii) is an endangered ungulate endemic to the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau, with a small population size and exposure to multiple ecological pressures. Its gut microbiota may play a crucial role in host env...
The traditional knowledge of indigenous people is often neglected despite its significance in combating climate change. This study uncovers the potential of traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) from the perspective of indigenous communities in Sara...
Caragana, a xerophytic shrub genus widely distributed in northern China, exhibits distinctive geographical substitution patterns and ecological adaptation diversity. This study employed transcriptome sequencing technology to investigate 12 Caragana s...
Weedy rice, also known as red rice, mainly originates from the de-domestication of cultivated rice and is a vicious weed in paddy fields around the world. Its red seeds are rich in oxidized proanthocyanidins (OPAs). This study investigates whether OP...
The rural transformation driven by regime shift is obvious around the world, and there is still insufficient research exploring related effective analytical frameworks and ideas. Transformation adaptation is widely used in the field of disaster resea...
Socio-ecological systems have increasingly faced climate-change impacts, which have adversely affected the lives and property of inhabitants. The present study aims to prioritize adaptation actions along an altitudinal gradient (<1200 m asl (Zone...
The relationship between Taiwan’s groundwater resources recharge strategy and flood disasters is significant. The adaptation strategies of traditional urbanization areas simulate the spatial distribution of permeable pavements under different rainfal...
The accelerated growth of cities has intensified interest in the ecosystem services provided by urban forests, increasingly conceptualized as socio-ecological systems (SESs). This study presents a structured narrative review combined with bibliometri...
With global warming, the frequency, intensity, and period of extreme climates in more areas will probably increase in the twenty first century. However, the impact of climate extremes on forest vulnerability and the mechanisms by which forests adapt...
Transposable elements (TEs) are crucial for genome evolution and ecological adaptation, but their dynamics in non-model plants are poorly understood. Using genomic, transcriptomic, and population genomic approaches, we analyzed the TE landscape of Ba...
This study explores how traditional ecological knowledge in Chile can contribute to adaptation strategies within increasingly complex socio-ecological landscapes. It addresses the need for innovative approaches to knowledge production and application...
Recent advances in plant genomics have characterized transposable elements (TEs) as key contributors to genome structure and gene regulation. This study focuses on the remarkably high abundance of short interspersed nuclear elements (SINEs) in the ge...
Understanding the adaptive dynamics of social-ecological systems (SESs) is critical for regional sustainability as human–environment interactions intensify. However, existing indicator-based research frequently lacks a clear theoretical framewo...
Current governance of regional scale water management systems in the United States has not placed them on a path toward sustainability, as conflict and gridlock characterize the social arena and ecosystem services continue to erode. Changing climate...
The deep-sea hydrothermal vent ecosystem is one of the extreme chemoautotrophic environments. Shinkaicaris leurokolos Kikuchi and Hashimoto, 2000, and Alvinocaris longirostris Kikuchi and Ohta, 1995, are typically co-distributed and closely related a...
Adaptive governance is increasingly considered a feasible approach to address the uncertainties and complexities of social-ecological system (SES), whereas its role on SES coupling has not been sufficiently testified. Empirical evidence is provided i...
Existing studies related to ecological sensitivity evaluation are comparatively mature; however, few approaches are concerned with distinctive topographical conditions that enable response to specific environmental restoration requirements. In this p...
The urban ecosystems in China have been compromised during the process of urbanization. The declining services of ecological lands have hindered the sustainable development of cities and the current ecological land management (regulations, rules, and...
Urban agglomeration ecosystems are impacted by human activities and natural disasters, so analyzing the spatial and temporal evolution of landscape ecological resilience from the perspective of adaptive cycling is crucial. Using the Changsha–Zh...
Urban agglomerations are complex adaptive social–ecological systems, and understanding the spatiotemporal evolution of landscape ecological resilience is important for their sustainable management. This study extended the previously developed R...
The adaptive cycle and panarchy are recognised tools for resilience assessment prior to establishing new management approaches aligned with Anthropocene needs. This study used the adaptive cycle and panarchy to assess the dynamics of the social-ecolo...
This article investigates the dynamics of socio-ecological systems’ (SESs) unsustainability. By adopting a theoretical standpoint grounded in systems’ theory, the analysis shows how SESs’ teleology (or final cause) is of the utmost...
Against the backdrop of global climate change, enhancing urban adaptive capacity to climate shocks has become a critical issue for sustainable urban development. Based on this, this study treats the Climate-Adaptive City Pilot (CACP) policy in China...
Transnational cultural heritage corridors generate benefits through routes, landscapes, communities, ecological settings, and cross-border historical connections, while many conservation and environmental management responsibilities remain localized....
26 December 2022
The frequent occurrence of floods in urban areas caused by climate change challenges urban resilience. This research aims to construct an ecological security pattern (ESP) that is adaptive to floods to enhance urban resilience in the hope that it wil...
Assessing the applicability of theory to major adaptive radiations in deep time represents an extremely difficult problem in evolutionary biology. Neoaves, which includes 95% of living birds, is believed to have undergone a period of rapid diversific...
Drawing on a survey of large-scale ecological restoration initiatives, we find that managers face contradictory demands. On the one hand, they have to raise funds from a variety of sources through competitive procedures for individual projects. These...
24 April 2022
The main objective of this study is to understand and characterize the adoption of an ecological perspective and the physical, psychological, social, and contextual health factors that may influence the adjustment to and mental health experiences dur...
Historic urban areas must adapt to modern cultural ecology for sustainable development while preserving the authenticity and integrity of their cultural heritage. However, this goal is highly challenging due to the complexity of authenticity, integri...
Protected areas are critical for biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services. In the last few years, there has been growing recognition of the role of indigenous peoples and local communities in the management of government designated protected...
The interaction between plants and phytophagous insects is one of the most complex relationships in ecosystems. By acting as direct third-party participants, gut symbionts redefine this binary antagonistic relationship. This article reviews the roles...
Due to the fact that the South Africa’s savanna landscapes are under changing conditions, the previously sustainable firewood collection system in rural areas has become a social-ecological factor in questions about landscape management. While...
Agricultural water footprint is an important indicator for assessing water-use efficiency and resource carrying capacity in agricultural systems, especially in arid regions. From the perspective of ecological function zones, this study examines the s...
Moving from the scientific literature on the evaluation of environmental projects and programs, this study identifies how and under which conditions collaborations in environmentally sustainable projects are considered effective for the adaptive gove...
Impacts of climate change are likely to be marked in areas with steep climatic transitions. Species turnover, spread of invasive species, altered productivity, and modified processes such as fire regimes can all spread rapidly along ecotones, which c...
17 July 2022
The mine–agriculture–urban compound area formed under the combined effects of natural conditions, mineral resource endowments, and historical development is affected by severe man-made disturbances, and faces a prominent contradiction bet...
From a social–ecological systems perspective, cold-region rural human settlements are human-centered spatial settings adapting to population shrinkage, declining density, and prolonged cold; existing assessments often compress change into singl...
Landscape ecological security is an environmental requirement for social and economic development. Understanding the dynamic mechanisms of landscape change and the associated ecological risks in regional socioecological systems is necessary for promo...
Rural mountain communities in developing countries are considered particularly vulnerable to environmental change, including climate change. Forests and agriculture provide numerous ecosystem goods and services (EGS) to local communities and can help...
This study investigates the reintroduction and ecological adaptation of the endangered dung beetle, Gymnopleurus mopsus, in South Korea, a region from which it has been absent since the 1970s. To facilitate this, we imported genetically identical pop...
This exploratory case study assesses ecotourism adaptability across three zones within the proposed Southwest Karst National Park (Guangxi), where UNESCO-recognised geological heritage intertwines with diverse ethnic cultures. To fill the gap in zone...
The construction and operation of water storage and hydropower projects affects the structure of water ecosystems of downstream rivers, and the establishment of ecological flow in rivers below the water storage and hydropower projects has significant...
The testing association of environmental variables with genetic and epigenetic variation could be crucial to deciphering the effects of environmental factors playing roles as selective drivers in ecological speciation. Although ecological speciation...
Plant functional traits are indicative of the long-term responses and adaptations of plants to their environment. However, the specific mechanisms by which desert plant functional groups (PFGs) adjust their ecological adaptation strategies to cope wi...
The interaction between soil microbes and plants has a significant effect on soil microbial structure and function, as well as plant adaptability. However, the effect of soil micro-organisms on ecological adaption and rapid growth of woody bamboos re...
Coastal ecosystems are highly dynamic and vulnerable to climate change, sea-level rise, and rapid urbanization. However, many landscape ecological risk assessments are limited by fixed scales and assumptions of spatial uniformity. This study develops...
Salinisation and metal contamination are among the leading causes of arable land loss worldwide, yet halophytes and metallophytes—the plants best adapted to these conditions—remain a considerably underexploited biotechnological resource....
Pathogen fitness landscapes change when transmission cycles establish in non-native environments or spill over into new vectors and hosts. The introduction of Leishmania infantum in the Americas into the Neotropics during European colonization repres...
Climate-related changes in glacierized watersheds are widely documented, stimulating adaptive responses among the 370 million people living in glacier-influenced watersheds as well as aquatic and riparian ecosystems. The situation denotes important i...
Fears regarding the future of coral reefs are reflected in a growing scientific effort, worldwide, to help corals survive and adapt to the impacts of climate change through new management strategies. To be viable, these strategies must not only be ec...
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