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The Effect of the Human Footprint and Climate Change on Landscape Ecological Risks: A Case Study of the Loess Plateau, China

open access: yesLand, 2022
The increase in ecological risks caused by human activities has become a global concern in recent years. The Landscape Ecological Risk Index based on the theory of landscape ecology is more suitable for assessing large-scale ecological risks.
Zhi Qu   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Framework for Establishing Restoration Goals for Contaminated Ecosystems [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This article represents 1 of 6 articles in the special series “Restoration of Impaired Ecosystems: An Ounce of Prevention or a Pound of Cure?” The articles result from a Technical Workshop organized by SETAC and the Society for Ecological Restoration ...
DalSoglio, Julie A.   +6 more
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Multi-scenario landscape ecological risk assessment based on Markov–FLUS composite model [PDF]

open access: yesGeomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk, 2021
This study analysed the spatial pattern change of land use from 2005 to 2015 in Xinjiang and proposed a Markov–Future Land Use Simulation composite model to predict land-use change by 2025 under natural growth and ecological protection scenarios. The Criteria Importance Though Intercrieria Correlation method was proposed to construct the landscape ...
Quan Xu   +3 more
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Landscape metrics and indices : an overview of their use in landscape research [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
The aim of this overview paper is to analyze the use of various landscape metrics and landscape indices for the characterization of landscape structure and various processes at both landscape and ecosystem level.
Antrop, Marc   +4 more
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Landscape Ecological Risk Assessment and Analysis of Influencing Factors in Selenga River Basin

open access: yesRemote Sensing, 2023
Land degradation under the influence of global warming and ecological environmental destruction due to poor land management is the main challenge facing the Mongolian Plateau, and its future ecological risk change trends and drivers are also unclear ...
Wangping Li   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Glossary on renewable energy and landscape quality: the glossary [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The energy supply sector is considered a major polluter by the emission of greenhouse gases in the ...
Kruse, Alexandra, Mickovski, Slobodan B.
core   +1 more source

Landscape Ecological Risk Assessment of Zhoushan Island Based on LULC Change

open access: yesSustainability, 2023
Owing to limited land resources and unique ecosystems, islands face more serious ecological risks under the interference of climate change and human activities. In this study, selecting Zhoushan Island as the study area, a landscape ecological risk index model was constructed based on LULC (land use/land cover) data and the landscape ecological risks ...
Sizheng Li   +4 more
openaire   +1 more source

Landscape Dynamics and Ecological Risk Assessment of Cold Temperate Forest Moose Habitat in the Great Khingan Mountains, China

open access: yesBiology, 2023
The change in habitat pattern is one of the key factors affecting the survival of the moose population. The study of the habitat landscape pattern is the key to protecting the Chinese cold-temperate forest moose population and monitoring the global ...
Shiquan Sun   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

STUDY ON ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT OF GUANGXI COASTAL ZONE BASED ON 3S TECHNOLOGY [PDF]

open access: yesThe International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2018
This paper takes Guangxi coastal zone as the study area, following the standards of land use type, divides the coastal zone of ecological landscape into seven kinds of natural wetland landscape types such as woodland, farmland, grassland, water, urban ...
Z. Zhong   +20 more
doaj   +1 more source

Coastal landscape pattern optimization based on the spatial distribution heterogeneity of ecological risk

open access: yesFrontiers in Marine Science, 2022
The increasingly intensified development of coastal cities causes excessive consumption of natural resources, leading to environmental damage and increasing conflict between development and ecological protection.
Lin Yi   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

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