Land-use/land-cover changes (LUCCs) have links to both human and nature interactions.
China’s Land-Use/cover Datasets (CLUDs) were updated regularly at 5-year intervals from the …

Land use/cover change is an important theme on the impacts of human activities on the
earth systems and global environmental change. National land-use changes of China during …

The past two decades saw rapid and massive urbanization and industrialization in China.
Despite much research has been reportedly done at local and regional scales, little has been …

Assessing the impacts of land use/cover change (LUCC) on the aeolian process is crucial for
improving regional ecosystem services and sustainable development. The objective of the …

Research on physical characteristics and land-cover dynamic changes of megacities over
time provides valuable insights for effectively regulating urban planning and management. …

Context Understanding how landscape components affect the urban heat islands is crucial
for urban ecological planning and sustainable development. Objective The purpose of this …

Cropland redistribution to marginal land has been reported worldwide; however, the resulting
impacts on environmental sustainability have not been investigated sufficiently. Here we …

Soil erosion caused by wind is a serious environmental problem that results in land degradation
and threatens sustainable development. Accurately evaluating wind erosion dynamics …

Quantifying the effects of urban land use/land cover with regard to surface radiation and heat
flux regulation is important to ecological planning and heat stress mitigation. To retrieve the …

ERA-Interim has been widely considered as a valid proxy for observations at global and
regional scales. However, the verifications of ERA-Interim precipitation and temperature in …