Vegetation change and ecological quality of the Loess Plateau (LP) are directly related to
ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin. Based on LP …

Vegetation is a key component of terrestrial ecosystems, and its changes are very sensitive
to climate change (CC) and human activities (HA), especially in ecologically fragile areas …

Abstract The Loess Plateau of China is one of the regions with the most serious soil erosion
globally. The ambitious “Grain for Green” project was there implemented to restore …

Ecosystem water use efficiency (WUE) is a key indicator that depicts the carbon-water
coupling relationship in terrestrial ecosystems. Separating the effects of climate change and …

Karst areas are fragile ecological environments facing serious soil quality problems. It is
crucial to understand the surface-soil quality for ensuring the secondary succession of …

Evaluating climate and human-induced vegetation change could support managing the
sustainability of ecological environment. Based on the Normalized Difference Vegetation …

The significant increase in vegetation coverage in northern China over the past two decades
has attracted worldwide attention. Revegetation has been completed via artificial and …

The herbaceous understory represents a key component of forest biodiversity across
temperate forests of Europe. Here, we quantified changes in the diversity and composition of …

Appropriate human activities can have significantly positive effects on vegetation dynamics.
In the past 50 years, various ecological policies have improved both ecological change and …

Vegetation coverage is important in global landscape change patterns, but research on
temporal and spatial dynamic changes and analysis of vegetation landscape pattern is …