The aboveground forest biomass plays a key role in the global carbon cycle and is considered a large and constant carbon reservoir. Hence, exploring the future potential changes in forest-cover pattern can help to estimate the trend of forest biomass...
Forest age is one of most important biological factors that determines the magnitude of vegetation carbon sequestration. A spatially explicit forest age dataset is crucial for forest carbon dynamics modeling at the regional scale. However, owing to t...
Human activities and climate change have resulted in an increasing fragmentation of forest landscapes, and the conflict between biodiversity protection and economic development has become more pronounced. The establishment of forest ecological networ...
The evolution of forest landscape patterns can reveal the landscape stability of forest dynamics undergoing complex ecological processes. Analysis of forest landscape dynamics in regions under ecological restoration can evaluate the impact of large-s...
Objective: This study established an index system for assessing forest fire spread hazards and conducted a forest fire spread hazard assessment in the mountainous district of Beijing (including Fangshan, Mentougou, Changping, Yanqing, Huairou, Miyun,...
The Choquet capacity and integral is an eminent scheme to represent the interaction knowledge among multiple decision criteria and deal with the independent multiple sources preference information. In this paper, we enhance this scheme’s decisi...
Dramatic forest dynamics strongly influence pressure mitigation from the increasing population and climate changes of an urban landscape. Effectively monitoring landscapes in a spatiotemporally consistent manner, satellite remote sensing has emerged...
Microclimate and vegetation architecture are interdependent. Little information is available, however, about the fine-scale spatio-temporal relationship between the microclimate and herb layer of forest-steppe mosaics. In 2018 a three-season-long veg...
Accurate information on forest distribution is an essential basis for the protection of forest resources. Recent advances in remote sensing and machine learning have contributed to the monitoring of forest-cover distribution cost-effectively, but rel...
We propose a procedure to detect significant changes in forest spatial patterns and relevant scales. Our approach consists of four sequential steps. First, based on a series of multi-temporal forest maps, a set of geographic windows of increasing ext...
The advancement of urbanization has led to a decline in the ecological function and environmental quality of cities, seriously reducing the services and sustainable development capacity of urban ecosystems. The construction of the National Forest Urb...
The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) offer specific guidelines for improving sustainable forest management, especially Goal 15. Goal 15 protects, restores and promotes the sustainable use of land ecosystems, manages forests...
To provide a comprehensive understanding of the spatial distribution of forest carbon reserves, this study explores carbon storage and its spatial pattern in the horizontal and vertical directions on a provincial scale using HJ-CCD remote sensing ima...
To restore declining species, including Populus euphratica and other riparian communities, in the river ecosystem of the lower Tarim River, the ecological water conveyance project (EWCP), as a part of an integrated water resource management plan, was...
Lightning-induced forest fires frequently inflict substantial damage on forest ecosystems, with the Daxing’anling region in northern China recognized as a high-incidence region for such phenomena. To elucidate the occurrence patterns of forest...
The forest swamp ecosystem, as a special wetland ecosystem, is a key link in the material cycle and an important carbon sink in the carbon cycle. The global carbon cycle is of great significance, but the impact of forest swamp succession and soil dep...
Complex oil and gas two-phase flow exists within an aero-engines bearing cavity scavenge pipe, prone to lubricated self-ignition and coking. Lubricant system designers must be able to accurately identify and understand the flow state of the scavenge...
Urbanization processes greatly change urban landscape patterns and the urban thermal environment. Significant multi-scale correlation exists between the land surface temperature (LST) and landscape pattern. Compared with traditional linear regression...
The Brazilian Atlantic Forest, one the five main biodiversity hotspots in the world, still houses many organisms that are rare and unknown to science, mostly concentrated in mountain ranges. Herein, we describe a rare new species of Cambeva from the...
Since the goals of carbon peaking and carbon neutrality have been established, forest carbon sinks have garnered significant attention. As a fundamental component of forest carbon sinks, the quality of forest land significantly influences the carbon...
As global oil demand continues to increase, in recent years, countries have continued to expand the development of oil reserves, highlighting the importance of oil. In order to adapt to different strata distribution conditions, domestic drilling tech...
The objective of this study was to map the distribution pattern of gentrification, showing the adverse effect of urban parks. The study adopted the perspective that urban parks, which have thus far been featured in urban planning without much critici...
Research Highlights: We used airborne lidar to assess the multi-scalar patterns of forest structure across a large (471,000 hectare), multi-owner landscape of the Oregon Coast Range, USA. The results of this study can be used in the development and e...
The frequency and severity of forest fires, coupled with changes in spatial and temporal precipitation and temperature patterns, are likely to severely affect the characteristics of forest and permafrost patterns in boreal eco-regions. Forest fires,...
In the Brazilian Amazon, multiple logging activities are undergoing, involving different actors and interests. They shape a disturbance gradient bound to the intensity and frequency of logging, and forest management techniques. However, until now, fe...
Large forest fires can cause significant damage to forest ecosystems and threaten human life and property. Heilongjiang Province is a major forested area in China with the highest number and concentration of lightning-caused forest fires in the count...
Forest-owning companies in Sweden have both a goal to yield a good short-term rate of return on their forest and a goal to maintain a high long-term rate of return by maintaining the production of wood-based products. Both these objectives are taken...
Analyzing the spatial patterns and associations among tree species may help to elucidate the importance of the ecological processes behind population formation and the mechanisms of species coexistence. To explore this mechanism, we mapped and studie...
Several studies attempt to describe changes in the spatial patterns of forests over time, resorting to the comparison of landscape pattern indices (LPI), but new methods for quantifying landscape differences in a statistical context are necessary. In...
The forest landscape pattern evolution can reveal the intensity and mode of action of human–land relationships at different times and in different spaces, providing scientific support for regional ecological security, human settlement health, and sus...
This research investigated the effects of the forest landscape composition and spatial distribution and local climate change’s lag effects on the carbon density of stands and provides a reference for optimizing the stand structure and sustainab...
Global forest wildfires are increasing in both frequency and intensity, resulting in significant ecological degradation and posing substantial threats to human health. This study focused on the Dongjiang River Basin in southern China and investigated...
An ecological public welfare forest is an important basis for the construction of national ecological security. This study took public welfare forests at the provincial level or above in Hunan Province as the research object. Based on the in situ mon...
Investigating how the productivity dynamics of planted forests vary over time is important for understanding the resilience of forests against disturbance and for maximizing ecological restoration and replanting efforts. In this study, the patterns o...
Seedling and sapling spatial patterns are important in community regeneration, and understanding the natural regeneration mechanisms of tree species in relation to spatial patterns will help improve forest management and community restoration efficie...
Abundant and rare bacteria exhibit unequal responses to environmental changes and disturbances, potentially resulting in differential contributions to the altitudinal characteristics of total community in natural and disturbed soils. Although the alt...
The landscape patterns of urban forests not only reflect the influence of urbanization on urban forests, but also determines its function in urban ecosystem services. In the case of mastering the overall forest landscape pattern of a city, a study of...
Fengshui forests are cultural-ecological landscape units that preserve native vegetation, ritual memory, and village-based conservation practices on the Leizhou Peninsula. However, recent land-use change has increased the risk of native-core loss, pl...
In China, the Returning Farmland to Forest Program (RFFP) has afforested large areas, transforming land and livelihoods. By impacting vegetation cover, it may also drive spatial pattern changes across landscapes. Most studies have focused on time ser...
The transnational area of Changbai Mountain (TACM) is crucial to sustainable development in Northeast Asia owing to its abundant forest, which helps in maintaining biodiversity and multiple ecosystem services. However, the spatiotemporal patterns of...
China’s forests act as a large carbon sink and play a vital role in achieving the carbon neutrality goal by the 2060s. To achieve this goal, the magnitude and spatial patterns of forest carbon sinks must be accurately quantified. In this study,...
Converting the diverse values of forest ecosystems into economic gains is one of the major challenges in advancing the global sustainable development agenda. As China continues to expand its factor inputs in the forestry sector, the question of wheth...
The Fujian coastal zone, a key region in China’s coastal belt, has experienced significant landscape and ecological changes due to intense human activities. Understanding the relationship between landscape patterns and ecological quality is cri...
Against the backdrop of advancing ecological civilization and increasing public interest in reconnecting with nature, this study examines fireflies—iconic insects cherished for their natural charm—as valuable landscape resources. This stu...
The Irtysh River, which stretches for 633 km, is the second longest river in Xinjiang. The valley forests within its basin are unique forest resources that exhibit crucial ecological functions and form an integral part of China’s “Three N...
Light is a critical environmental factor that shapes forest communities. The canopy trees intercept the light, thus understory plants become shaded. Shade leads to the attenuation of light intensity and a shift in the spectrum through the forest vert...
For poverty-stricken mountainous cities in China, both poverty alleviation and ecological restoration projects are sources of land-use change in urban development. However, the patterns in changes are understudied in light of sustainable forest manag...
The forest dormouse (Dryomys nitedula) is a small, nocturnal, arboreal rodent widely distributed across Central and Eastern Europe. Yet, it remains one of the least studied European glirid species, with information on its ecology in southern populati...
Due to climate change, subtropical forests are increasingly exposed to severe disturbance, which may lead to increased tree mortality. To date, previous research has not sufficiently studied the deadwood biomass within forests over large study plots....
Forest villages are local implementation units of ecological civilization and play a central role in coordinating rural ecological conservation with high-quality development. Accurately identifying their spatial distribution and driving mechanisms, a...
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