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{"title":"Assessing the moderating effects of artificial canal construction on regional ecosystem services: a state-space-regulation framework based on multi-objective sustainability scenarios","authors":"Min Zhao,&nbsp;Weiqun Lei,&nbsp;Yu Huang,&nbsp;Wenmin Hu,&nbsp;Guo Li","doi":"10.1016/j.ecolind.2026.115339","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecolind.2026.115339","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The construction of artificial canals severely disrupts the coordinated development of landscape cover patterns and ecological functions. Quantitatively assessing their redistribution effects on Ecosystem Service (ES) functions and the trade-off/synergy dynamics is of great significance. This study, using <em>the Pinglu Canal</em> construction as a case, integrated SSP-RCP-based PLUS scenario simulations, the “Pressure-State-Response”(PSR) evaluation framework, and InVEST and Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) models to develop a “State-Space-Regulation” (SSR) response assessment framework for artificial canal construction. It systematically revealed the landscape pattern evolution triggered by canal construction and its impacts on ES trade-offs and synergies. The results showed that: (1) In terms of landscape disturbance, the expansion of water area (5.3%), increased land use dynamic degree (18%), and aggravated landscape fragmentation (10.5%) were significant characteristics after the canal construction; (2) Under the SSP245 (intermediate pathway) scenario, the synergistic relationship between Carbon Storage (CS) and Habitat Quality (HQ) improved significantly (correlation coefficient increased by 0.14); whereas under the SSP585 (high‑carbon pathway) scenario, intensive human intervention significantly strengthened the trade-off relationship between Water Retention (WR) and HQ (correlation coefficient decreased by 0.08). Moreover, WR and Soil Retention (SR) exhibited a notable “distance-decay effect along the canal proximity”, indicating that ecological interactions became more sensitive closer to the canal; (3) The driving mechanism of ES evolution shifted towards human activity dominance (contribution rate increased by 40% ∼ 50%). Given that the SSP245 scenario most effectively balanced economic and ecological sustainable development in the canal region, it is necessary to propose Nature-based Solutions (NbS) for coordinating the ESs in artificial canal basins based on this scenario. This study can provide important technical and theoretical support for assessing the environmental effects and sustainable development of major ecological projects such as “artificial canals”.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11459,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Indicators","volume":"190 ","pages":"Article 115339"},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148854898","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Trophic interactions within soil micro-food webs regulate ecosystem multifunctionality under wetland reclamation","authors":"Mingyu Wang,&nbsp;Shiqing Zhao,&nbsp;Detian Li,&nbsp;Xiangyu Liu,&nbsp;Chengrong Chen,&nbsp;Xin Sui,&nbsp;Baoshan Cui","doi":"10.1016/j.ecolind.2026.115168","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecolind.2026.115168","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Wetland reclamation is one of the most globally widespread land-use transformations and strongly affects belowground biogeochemical processes. Even so, we still do not fully understand how the soil micro-food webs re-organized and regulate ecosystem multifunctionality (EMF) following the conversion of wetland to paddy field and soybean field. A natural experimental system of the Sanjiang Plain was created in this study using natural wetland (NW) as well as paddy (PF) and soybean (SB) fields. Through the integration of high-throughput sequencing, energy-flow analysis, and structural equation modeling, we systematically examined community assembly, interaction networks, and functional dynamics across multiple trophic levels. The findings revealed that the bacterial and fungal communities in paddy fields were mostly driven by strong deterministic processes while in soybean fields stochastic processes were dominant. In contrast, paddy fields selected protistan communities mainly by stochastic processes; soybean fields underwent a transition to deterministic selection. The co-occurrence network of micro-food web in paddy fields shrank and was characterized by a marked increase in positive correlations (64.44%) while soybean fields showed a marked increase in negative correlations. In agricultural systems, the overall state of the micro-food web changed from the wetland “structured” state to a “enrichment-driven” state. The main drivers of ecosystem multifunctionality also changed, transitioning from an “endogenous carbon limitation” pattern in wetlands to an “exogenous nutrient-driven” mechanism in farmland. Several key taxa, including the bacterium <em>Romboutsia</em> and the nematode <em>Pseudacrobeles</em>, showed strong predictive power for ecosystem multifunctionality. Structural equation modeling further revealed that positive network cohesion, rather than species diversity, acts as the primary driver promoting EMF. Overall, this study reveals the key mechanisms underlying the coordinated evolution of belowground micro-food web structure and ecosystem multifunctionality during wetland reclamation from a multi-trophic interaction perspective, providing a new theoretical framework for understanding how land-use change regulates ecosystem multifunctionality.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11459,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Indicators","volume":"189 ","pages":"Article 115168"},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148736888","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Construction and optimization of a land–sea integrated ecological network based on complex network theory: A case study of Dalian, China","authors":"Lina Ke,&nbsp;Yinyin Miao,&nbsp;Yini Wang,&nbsp;Qingli Jiang,&nbsp;Yao Lu,&nbsp;Xinyu Zhang,&nbsp;Zhan Su,&nbsp;He Li","doi":"10.1016/j.ecolind.2026.115172","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecolind.2026.115172","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>As a critical zone where terrestrial and marine ecosystems interact and are tightly coupled, coastal areas urgently require breaking the existing land–sea segmentation. However, existing ecological network studies remain predominantly land-oriented, with insufficient consideration of land–sea spatial coordination, and edge-addition optimization of ecological networks largely relies on a single strategy. This study focuses on the terrestrial and nearshore marine areas of Dalian. An integrated land–sea ecological network was constructed using circuit theory, and complex network theory was employed to analyze its topological characteristics. On this basis, propose two edge-adding optimization strategies: the Maximum Degree Strategy (MDS) and the Maximum Betweenness Strategy (MBS). The findings revealed that: (1) The numbers of land–sea ecological sources were 47, 41, and 36 in 2005, 2015, and 2024, respectively, while the numbers of ecological corridors were 99, 90, and 86, respectively. (2) From 2005 to 2024, the average degree of the ecological network increased from 4.17 to 4.77, indicating an improvement in overall network connectivity. However, ecological connections in marginal areas remain relatively weak and show a strong dependence on core corridors. (3) Under the random attack, the relative size of the largest connected component increased from 0.55 to 0.63 in the original network to 0.58–0.66 under the MDS and 0.62–0.66 under the MBS, indicating that network redundancy and resistance to disturbances were effectively enhanced after optimization. This study integrates circuit theory and complex network analysis to establish a land-sea integrated ecological network optimization framework. By clarifying the applicability and optimization mechanisms of different optimization strategies, the proposed framework provides a transferable methodological reference for ecological network planning and management in coastal cities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11459,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Indicators","volume":"189 ","pages":"Article 115172"},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148736818","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Corrigendum to “A meta-analysis of trade-offs between agricultural production and ecosystem services: a biplot-based synthesis” [Ecol. Indic. 188 (2026) 14996]","authors":"Ayoub Barissoul,&nbsp;Stefan Hirsch,&nbsp;Christine Wieck","doi":"10.1016/j.ecolind.2026.115032","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecolind.2026.115032","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11459,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Indicators","volume":"188 ","pages":"Article 115032"},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148524432","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Dominant constraints on the long-term trends of global vegetation restoration potential patterns","authors":"Tingbin Zhang,&nbsp;Yang Chen,&nbsp;Xiaobing Zhou,&nbsp;Guihua Yi,&nbsp;Jingji Li,&nbsp;Xiaojuan Bie,&nbsp;Xianglong Ma","doi":"10.1016/j.ecolind.2026.115072","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecolind.2026.115072","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Vegetation restoration potential (VRP) represents the attainable upper bound of vegetation recovery under existing environmental and habitat constraints. Quantifying VRP is essential for identifying restoration priorities and evaluating the long-term sustainability of global greening under accelerating climate change and widespread land degradation. However, the global spatial patterns, dominant drivers, and regional disparities of VRP remain insufficiently understood. We integrated multi-source remote sensing and environmental datasets to assess the spatiotemporal dynamics of VRP and vegetation restoration potential achievement degree (VRPAD) from 2000 to 2022 under similar-habitat conditions, and applied the Local Indicator of Stratified Power (LISP) to characterize the spatial heterogeneity of dominant drivers. Results showed that global kernel normalized difference vegetation index (kNDVI) increased significantly, with greening hotspots concentrated in eight major regions, whereas VRP declined significantly at −0.01 per decade (10a). High VRP values were mainly distributed in Eastern Europe, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Central Africa, whereas low values occurred in arid–semiarid and high-latitude regions. Global VRPAD increased significantly at 0.03 per decade (10a), particularly in tropical and subtropical regions, indicating progressive realization of restoration potential but persistent constraints in drylands and cold environments. Climatic factors dominated the global spatial pattern of VRP, with solar radiation (SR), precipitation (PRE), and temperature (TEM) jointly explaining 81.22% of the land surface. SR showed stronger control in low-latitude arid and plateau regions, PRE was more influential in tropical monsoon and temperate humid regions, and TEM exhibited stronger explanatory power in mid- to high-latitude plateaus and temperate steppe regions, whereas topography and land use exerted stronger localized effects. These findings indicate that recent global greening has been accompanied by a contraction of remaining restoration space and that restoration outcomes are strongly constrained by regional environmental endowments. This study provides a global benchmark for identifying restoration priority areas and supports region-specific restoration planning and climate-adaptive ecosystem management.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11459,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Indicators","volume":"188 ","pages":"Article 115072"},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148524441","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Corrigendum to “How does biodiverse and their associated factors affect the decomposition of dead wood in subtropical forest?” [Ecol. Indic. 187 (2026) 114958]","authors":"Guanghui Yang,&nbsp;Xi Yuan,&nbsp;Wanyu Ning,&nbsp;Wanchen Xu,&nbsp;Men Jia,&nbsp;Pei Wang,&nbsp;Yanbo Wang,&nbsp;Yuanqiu Liu,&nbsp;Chunsheng Wu","doi":"10.1016/j.ecolind.2026.115014","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecolind.2026.115014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11459,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Indicators","volume":"188 ","pages":"Article 115014"},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148524431","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Corrigendum to “Mapping and characterizing riparian forests in headwater streams in the Carpathians Mountains of Europe” [Ecol. Indic. 187 (2026) 114941]","authors":"Ewa M. Grabska,&nbsp;William S. Keeton","doi":"10.1016/j.ecolind.2026.114988","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecolind.2026.114988","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11459,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Indicators","volume":"188 ","pages":"Article 114988"},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148524430","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Integrating passive matrices with active moss biomonitoring for spatial assessment of metal pollution in an underground environment","authors":"Paweł Świsłowski ,&nbsp;Grzegorz Kłys ,&nbsp;Mikołaj Latoszewski ,&nbsp;Grzegorz J. Wolski ,&nbsp;Małgorzata Rajfur","doi":"10.1016/j.ecolind.2026.114906","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecolind.2026.114906","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Underground environments can act as reservoirs for air pollutants. Monitoring protected bat hibernation sites is difficult due to limited access and the need to minimise disturbance. As a result, spatial patterns of trace metal deposition in caves remain poorly characterised. Mosses are recognised biomonitors of atmospheric deposition, but active transplantation of moss bags has not been approved for use in underground bat hibernation sites. The overall problem, therefore, is to obtain spatial, quantitative signals of pollution in environments where conventional analytical infrastructure cannot be used. In this article, we show that combining passive matrices (soil and mosses) with active biomonitoring using moss bags allows the identification of clear metal hotspots in an underground facility that is a key wintering site for the lesser horseshoe bat (<em>Rhinolophus hipposideros</em>). Two species of moss (<em>Pleurozium schreberi</em> and <em>Dicranum polysetum</em>) were exposed for three winter months (13 December 2024–21 March 2025) outside the excavation site and in the entrance, middle and end zones. After exposure, Mn, Fe, Ni, Cu, Zn, Cd, Pb and Hg were measured and analysed in the mosses. The soil in the underground facility was heavily enriched with toxic metals, with the highest Hg concentration recorded inside (average 0.210 ± 0.063 mg/kg d.w.) and extreme pollution indices in the central part of the excavation (<em>CF</em> = 24.3, EF = 76.8), accompanied by a consistently high concentration of Cd. The moss bags reflected this spatial structure and revealed species-specific mercury uptake, with <em>D. polysetum</em> accumulating 1.85 times more mercury than <em>P. schreberi</em>, and PCA separating Mn/Fe-dominated profiles from Hg/Cd/Pb-dominated profiles. Pb. These results confirm that active biomonitoring using moss bags is a scalable, non-invasive method for detecting sites with high metal concentrations in bat hibernation sites, where conventional equipment is not feasible.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11459,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Indicators","volume":"186 ","pages":"Article 114906"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147798860","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"County-level assessment of coordinated relationship between land and population in urban China","authors":"Xiaoyi Jin,&nbsp;Beibei Sun,&nbsp;Haifeng Du","doi":"10.1016/j.ecolind.2026.114907","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecolind.2026.114907","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Urban construction land (UCL) and urban population (UP) are two core indicators of urbanization, and their interaction reflects the quality of urban development. While most studies investigating this relationship have concentrated on provincial and city scales, systematic evidence at the county level remains limited, despite counties becoming increasingly important in China's new-type urbanization strategy. This gap hinders the identification of intra-provincial disparities and spatial interactions, thereby limiting the effectiveness of locally differentiated policy design. This study integrates satellite and statistical data to examine the spatiotemporal relationship between UCL and UP across counties in China and evaluates the coupling coordination degree (CCD) over the period 2000–2021 and its driving forces. The analysis shows that although both UCL and UP continued to expand, UP growth has consistently lagged behind UCL expansion. The CCD improved over time, and county-level values are lower than those at the provincial level. Notably, within provinces with high overall CCD, significant disparities exist among counties. Spatially, high-high (HH) clusters predominate in eastern counties, while low-low (LL) clusters emerge mainly in the northwestern and southwestern counties. Spatial econometric results further reveal that GDP and government revenue significantly enhance CCD through both direct effects and positive spatial spillovers, whereas industrial structure and public services produce negative spillover effects. This county-level analysis provides new evidence on spatial heterogeneity and spillover mechanisms, offering a more precise basis for optimizing resource allocation and advancing sustainable urban governance in China.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11459,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Indicators","volume":"186 ","pages":"Article 114907"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147798951","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A hydrologically-partitioned modeling framework for robust assessment of aquatic ecological indicators in dynamic urban rivers","authors":"Zhiyuan Chen ,&nbsp;Hong Deng ,&nbsp;Zhiwei Huang ,&nbsp;Mujing Lin ,&nbsp;Jianle Wang ,&nbsp;Huaiyang Fang ,&nbsp;Weijie Li","doi":"10.1016/j.ecolind.2026.114899","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecolind.2026.114899","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>High-resolution monitoring of ecological indicators is fundamental to assessing the health of urban aquatic ecosystems. Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) hyperspectral remote sensing offers high-resolution and frequent data for this purpose, yet its application is hindered by the non-stationarity of water's optical properties, driven by high dynamics and complex anthropogenic pressures. Traditional global unified machine learning models (GUMs) are inherently deficient in capturing this heterogeneity. To address this challenge, this study proposes a process-aware Hydrological Regime Partitioning (HRP) framework. Dedicated XGBoost sub-models were trained to capture shifting dominance between sediment-scattering and biological-absorption and the associated nutrient coupling across three hydrological regimes (low, normal, and high flow) in the Xinan River. The results demonstrate that the HRP framework significantly outperforms the GUM, achieving a cross-validation average R² of 0.835 and an RPD of 2.36. When applied to an externally independent high-flow dataset, the framework maintained an average R² of 0.815 and a mean RPD of 2.25 across six ecological parameters. In contrast, GUM performance decreased substantially under the same conditions. These results confirm that the HRP framework enhances robustness by capturing the shifting environmental covariance between hydro-ecological indicators and spectral signatures. The proposed strategy therefore provides a practical route for regime-aware ecological indicator retrieval in dynamic urban rivers, while broader cross-regime and extreme-event validation remains a priority for future work.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11459,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Indicators","volume":"186 ","pages":"Article 114899"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147799023","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}