Impacts of land use/land cover changes on ecosystem services in ecologically fragile regions

• Published in: The Science of the total environment Vol. 831; p. 154967
• Main Authors: Fang, Zhou, Ding, Tonghui, Chen, Junyu, Xue, Shi, Zhou, Qin, Wang, Yingdi, Wang, Yixin, Huang, Zhongde, Yang, Shiliang
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Netherlands Elsevier B.V 20.07.2022
• Subjects: afforestation; carbon sequestration; China; Conservation of Natural Resources; ecological restoration; Ecologically fragile regions; Ecosystem; Ecosystem services; ecosystems; energy; environment; environmental health; Forests; grasslands; Humans; land cover; Land pattern simulation; land use planning; Land use/land cover change; Land use/land cover management; urban areas; Urbanization; Water; water shortages; water yield; China; Ecologically fragile regions; Land use/land cover management; Land pattern simulation; Ecosystem services; Land use/land cover change

High-density human activities have rapidly changed the pattern of urban land use/land cover (LULC), affecting the supply of urban ecosystem services (ESs). This poses a challenge to the balance of urban development and ecological protection, which may be more serious in ecologically fragile regions....