A5000602206- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Remote Sensing and Land Use
- Environmental Changes in China
- Environmental Quality and Pollution
- Environmental and Agricultural Sciences
- Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
- Forest, Soil, and Plant Ecology in China
- Soil erosion and sediment transport
- Plant Ecology and Soil Science
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Forest Management and Policy
- Urban Heat Island Mitigation
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Plant responses to elevated CO2
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Environmental Impact and Sustainability
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences
2016-2025
Chinese Academy of Sciences
2016-2025
Hubei University of Chinese Medicine
2025
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
2017-2024
State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology
2015-2022
State Forestry and Grassland Administration
2022
Linyi University
2021
Michigan State University
2007-2019
Hudson Institute
2018
John Wiley & Sons (United States)
2016-2018
In response to ecosystem degradation from rapid economic development, China began investing heavily in protecting and restoring natural capital starting 2000. We report on China's first national assessment (2000-2010), designed quantify help manage change services, including food production, carbon sequestration, soil retention, sandstorm prevention, water flood mitigation, provision of habitat for biodiversity. Overall, services improved 2000 2010, apart provision. conservation policies...
Liu, J., V. Hull, M. Batistella, R. DeFries, T. Dietz, F. Fu, W. Hertel, C. Izaurralde, E. Lambin, S. Li, L. A. Martinelli, J. McConnell, Moran, Naylor, Z. Ouyang, K. Polenske, Reenberg, G. de Miranda Rocha, Simmons, P. H. Verburg, Vitousek, Zhang, and Zhu. 2013. Framing sustainability in a telecoupled world. Ecology Society 18(2): 26. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-05873-180226
The central challenge of the 21st century is to develop economic, social, and governance systems capable ending poverty achieving sustainable levels population consumption while securing life-support underpinning current future human well-being. Essential meeting this incorporation natural capital ecosystem services it provides into decision-making. We explore progress crucial gaps at frontier, reflecting upon 10 y since Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. focus on three key dimensions ongoing...
It is generally perceived that biodiversity better protected from human activities after an area designated as a area. However, we found this common perception was not true in Wolong Nature Reserve (southwestern China), which established 1975 “flagship” for the world-renowned endangered giant pandas. Analyses of remote sensing data pre- and post-establishment periods indicate reserve has become more fragmented less suitable panda habitation. The rate loss high-quality habitat reserve's...
Recent expansion of the scale human activities poses severe threats to Earth's life-support systems. Increasingly, protected areas (PAs) are expected serve dual goals: protect biodiversity and secure ecosystem services. We report a nationwide assessment for China, quantifying provision threatened species habitat four key regulating services-water retention, soil sandstorm prevention, carbon sequestration-in nature reserves (the primary category PAs in China). find that China's moderately...
Abstract Soil as the largest global carbon pool has played a great role in sequestering atmospheric dioxide (CO 2 ). Although sequestration potentials have been assessed since 1980s, few investigations made on soil (SCS) China's cropland. China is developing country and long history of agricultural activities. Estimation SCS cropland very important for assessing potential measures to prevent rise predicting CO concentration future. After review available results field experiments China,...
Gross domestic product (GDP) summarizes a vast amount of economic information in single monetary metric that is widely used by decision makers around the world. However, GDP fails to capture fully contributions nature activity and human well-being. To address this critical omission, we develop measure gross ecosystem (GEP) value services metric. We illustrate measurement GEP through an application Chinese province Qinghai, showing approach tractable using available data. Known as “water...
Abstract Governments worldwide are recognising ecosystem services as an approach to address sustainability challenges. Decision‐makers need credible and legitimate measurements of evaluate decisions for trade‐offs make wise choices. Managers lack these because a data gap linking characteristics final services. The dominant method the is benefit transfer using ecological from one location estimate at other locations with similar land cover. However, only valid once adequately resolved....
Significance Achieving inclusive, green development is crucial to China and the world. Over past century, great increases in agricultural production have been achieved at expense of other ecosystem benefits, such as flood control, water purification, climate stabilization, biodiversity conservation. We report on an application China’s new “Ecological Development Strategy,” which aims break these trade-offs be scaled nationwide. Focusing Hainan Island, where rubber has driven loss natural...
Beginning in the 21st century, world entered a stage of rapid development land urbanization. In general, urbanization sacrifices ecosystem service value for economic value. Optimizing spatial pattern is best means balancing and Taking China as an example, through remote sensing GIS methods, this paper studies basic situation regional distribution other types ecosystems from 2000 to 2015, assessing relationship between characteristics growth cost services. The results show that differences...
We discuss institutional reforms to China’s protected area management. Currently (as elsewhere), areas suffer fragmented management, lack of a comprehensive classification, inadequate coverage biodiversity and ecosystem services, divided, inconsistent legislation. recommend establishing new system management that can address past difficulties by using ongoing as unprecedented opportunities. Establishing is the major strategy for conserving worldwide [1.Watson J.E. et al.The performance...
Ambitious investments in expanding forest cover globally need more careful analysis to avoid severe unintended consequences.
Environmental degradation caused by rapid urbanization is a pressing global issue. However, little known about how urban changes operate and affect environments across multiple scales. Focusing on China, we found was indeed massive from 2000 to 2015, but it also very uneven, exhibiting high internal city dynamics. Urban areas in China as whole became less green, warmer, had exacerbated PM2.5 pollution. environmental impacts differed newly developed versus older of cities. Adverse were...