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{"title":"Response of ESV Topographic Gradient to LULC in Mountain-River-Sea Transitional Space Based on Markov-PLUS Modeling: A Case Study of the Southwest Guangxi Karst-Beibu Gulf, China","authors":"Lili Zhang, Baoqing Hu, Weiyan Hu","doi":"10.1002/ldr.5555","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ldr.5555","url":null,"abstract":"The Guangxi Southwest Karst-Beibu Gulf (GSK-BG) is a complex mountain-river-sea transitional space made up of a special combination of karst mountains, river basins and coastal zones, presenting a slope zone tilted from northwest to southeast. At present, there is still a gap in identifying the characteristics of the topographic gradient response of past-present-future ecosystem service value (ESV) changes to land use and land cover (LULC) changes in the transitional space of mountains, rivers and seas. To that end, this study employed the Markov-PLUS model, land use transfer matrix and land use mapping to portray the characteristics of the changes in LULC and ESV from 2000 to 2030, as well as to analyze the analyze the LULC change towards the ESV response. Then the role of LULC transformation on ESV under different terrain gradient topographic factors was further explored to fill the current research gap. The results show: (1) The highest ESV was 479,332 million yuan in 2010 and the lowest was 473,424 million yuan in the urban development scenario (UDS). The distribution of ESV in space is shown as “high in the northwest and low in the central and southeastern part of the country”, which shows a trend of increasing and then decreasing in time. (2) Forest land (FL) is the main contributor to total ESV. The improvement in ESV in the study area was mainly due to the transfer of other land uses to FL and water body (WB), and the decrease in ESV was mainly due to the conversion of FL and WB to other land uses. (3) The topographic gradient response of ESV changes to LULC changes is more pronounced for the 2030 natural development scenario (NDS), ecological protection scenario (EPS), and UDS. The types of land transfers that predominate mainly on steep slopes at lower elevations as well as in areas with steep slopes at higher elevations include grassland (GL) and FL to unutilized land, with terrain distribution index (TDI) of 5.27 and 4.02, and bare land (BL) and FL to GL, with TDI of 4.75 and 3.53. Therefore, the topographic gradient characteristics of the region should be taken into account in the development and utilization of land resources and improvement of ESV in the mountain-river-sea transitional complex geospatial space.","PeriodicalId":203,"journal":{"name":"Land Degradation & Development","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143545845","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Exploring the Spatial Relationship Between Carbon Storage and Biodiversity: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis","authors":"Baoxiao Liu, Laura Scherer, Peter M. van Bodegom, Zhongxiao Sun, Paul Behrens","doi":"10.1002/ldr.5531","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ldr.5531","url":null,"abstract":"Climate change and biodiversity loss are severe and intertwined global threats. Land-based efforts to address both require an understanding of the spatial relationships between carbon storage and biodiversity. Here, we present a systematic review and meta-analysis of the strength of these spatial relationships across the literature. We synthesize the estimated spatial correlations and infer how different factors (spatial scale, metrics, biome, human pressure) impact these strengths using linear mixed-effect models. Our results show that spatial scale is a significant factor, and the combination of metrics used to express carbon storage and biodiversity plays a more important role. While relationships are moderately positive across all conditions, the strength of the relationships decreases significantly from global to local scales. We find large variations in the strength for different metrics, across different biomes, and in the presence or absence of human pressure. We find a stronger relationship in natural rather than human-dominated landscapes for temperate forests, grasslands, and deserts, but the opposite for tropical and subtropical forests. Ecosystem-level biodiversity proxies (habitat quality) show strong relationships to the total carbon pool, while taxonomic metrics (species richness) show a weaker relationship. The largest negative relationship is between total carbon and flora and fauna species richness. Our results suggest different synergies for different dimensions of carbon storage and biodiversity and shed light on where further effort is needed.","PeriodicalId":203,"journal":{"name":"Land Degradation & Development","volume":"52 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143545837","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Spatial Differentiation and Drivers of Functional Transition of Cultivated Ecosystems in China","authors":"Bolin Meng, Shixiang Li, Shanshan Li","doi":"10.1002/ldr.5538","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ldr.5538","url":null,"abstract":"Impairment of cultivated ecosystem functions (CEFs) is a form of land degradation. However, the mechanisms driving the functional transition of cultivated ecosystems (FTCE) and the interaction between regional differential behavior and FTCE remain unclear. To address this gap, we aimed to develop a theoretical framework and comprehensive analytical method, which combines single-factor simulation and multi-factor regression, based on the theory of agricultural-induced production substitution from the perspective of cultivated land use (CLU). The framework takes into account socioeconomic and regional elements, representing an advancement over extant studies that focus on natural ecological factors. The findings show that the high value of CEFs in China moves from the southwest and northeast to the central and Yangtze River Delta regions from 1990 to 2021. The FTCE occurs at both national and provincial scales with a U-shaped trend from rapid consumption to recovery growth. Further, there are two typical FTCE paths in China at different socioeconomic levels. At the regional scale, the FTCE in the east is mainly due to the decline in nitrogen fertilizer use intensity (NFUI), and in the central and western regions mainly due to the decline in biological disaster intensity (BDI). The mechanism driving FTCE is identified as the alternative choices made by farmers for agricultural production under different CLU goals, which are jointly influenced by cultivated land fragmentation (CLF), cultivated land scale management (CLM), and biological disaster adaptive capacity (BDC). Finally, recommendations to encourage the differentiated FTCE model in all regions of China are made with the aim of mitigating land degradation problems.","PeriodicalId":203,"journal":{"name":"Land Degradation & Development","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143545840","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Differential Response of Ecosystem Service to Restoration Methods and Restoration Time in Shallow Landslide-Prone Areas","authors":"Zheng Huang, Xia Wang, Meng Han Yuan, Wen Hui Duan, Jie Yi Xia, Jia Li, Yun Fei Zhao","doi":"10.1002/ldr.5550","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ldr.5550","url":null,"abstract":"Vegetation restoration effectively inhibits soil erosion, improves soil structure, increases soil carbon storage, and restores ecosystem service functions in vulnerable areas. Understanding the complex interactions between ecosystem services is essential for scientifically managing ecological restoration. However, systematic research in geohazard-prone areas with fragile ecosystems remains limited. Individual ecosystem services may exhibit varying trade-offs or synergies depending on restoration methods and duration, yet their relationships and optimization strategies are poorly understood. To address this, we investigated shallow landslide-prone areas in China where ecological restoration projects have been ongoing for 14 years. By assessing key ecosystem services-carbon storage, water conservation, and soil retention-under different restoration methods and duration, we found that ecosystem service capacity improved significantly, driven more by restoration modes than time. Artificial restoration had a greater positive impact than natural restoration. Over time, the soil and water conservation-carbon stock trade-off shifted toward continuous positive change. Additionally, the relationship between soil retention and water conservation transitioned from trade-off to synergy, indicating enhanced ecosystem functionality. Our study highlights the benefits of integrating restoration practices across management modes rather than time to develop sustainable ecosystem management strategies. These findings underscore the importance of artificial measures to strengthen ecosystem services in fragile and degraded areas.","PeriodicalId":203,"journal":{"name":"Land Degradation & Development","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143545928","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Species Rarity and Topography Determine the Plant Functional Structure Along the Successional Pathway in Heterogeneous Degraded Karst Forests","authors":"Mingzhen Sui, Longchenxi Meng, Guangqi Zhang, Danmei Chen, Qingfu Liu, Lipeng Zang","doi":"10.1002/ldr.5527","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ldr.5527","url":null,"abstract":"Understanding the dynamics of plant functional community structure along the successional pathway is crucial for natural resource conservation and environmental management, especially in those specially degraded ecosystems. This study established forest dynamic plots along the successional pathway in degraded karst forests to measure six plant functional traits: specific leaf area, leaf dry matter content, leaf thickness, leaf carbon content, leaf nitrogen content, and leaf phosphorus content. By implementing Grime's CSR strategy and employing a ternary functional diversity diagram framework, the variations in ternary plant ecological strategies and functional diversity were quantified. The results showed that the plants with competitive strategies increased along the succession, while plants with S-strategy decreased. The functional diversity declined from the early- to mid-successional stages, followed by an increase in the late-successional stage, with a corresponding inverse trend in functional redundancy. Furthermore, there was a decrease in species dominance from the early- to mid-successional stage, which contributed to the trade-off between functional diversity and redundancy. The topographic roughness and soil pH value were the main abiotic factors determining the variation in functional diversity among successional stages. Species rarity positively impacted functional diversity but negatively affected functional redundancy, highlighting the role of rare species in maintaining ecosystem functionality and emphasizing the vulnerability of karst ecosystems to environmental changes. This study provides valuable insights into the successional mechanisms in karst forests, thereby facilitating the development of effective conservation and environmental management.","PeriodicalId":203,"journal":{"name":"Land Degradation & Development","volume":"40 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143539326","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Land Degradation and Development Perspective of COP27 in the View of Green Energy, Agriculture, and Water Productivity: Novel Evidence From Emerging Economies","authors":"Haoxuan Chen, Xiangdong Liu, Baoguo Chen, Zhe Wang, Zehua Feng","doi":"10.1002/ldr.5563","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ldr.5563","url":null,"abstract":"This study explores the interplay between land and water productivity and green energy in emerging economies' environmental degradation. Since COP27 and COP28, they have paid more attention to the appropriate land management, food security, and green energy transition to overcome the global food and energy demand and attain sustainable development without harming environmental quality. Therefore, this research tends to contribute to the ongoing research on the climatic changing factors in the group of emerging economies, including India, Mexico, Russia, Pakistan, China, and Brazil. The study deals with the panel data covering the period from 1990 to 2022. Using sophisticated second-generation panel diagnostic approaches, the research found cross-section dependence, slope heterogeneity, and the presence of long-run equilibrium relationships between stationary variables. For the long-run analysis, this research uses Driscoll–Kraay fixed effect and random effect regression models. The research concludes that economic development and agriculture, forest, and fishing, value added (referred to as land degradation) are the significant drivers of carbon emissions, which improves environmental degradation. On the other hand, the results revealed that green energy use and water productivity significantly reduce the emissions level and improve the region's environmental quality. The results are robust and are authenticated by linear regression heteroskedastic panels corrected standard errors. This research recommends further investment in research and development, green energy, and water productivity projects. However, policymakers should revise the existing policies regarding agriculture value added and economic growth norms while replacing traditional practices.","PeriodicalId":203,"journal":{"name":"Land Degradation & Development","volume":"41 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143545851","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Exploring Global Research Trends in Mangrove Ecosystems: A Bibliometric Analysis of Key Issues and Future Directions (1996–2022)","authors":"Yingying Qin, Gege Zhu, Mingzhong Liang, Bingbin Feng","doi":"10.1002/ldr.5558","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ldr.5558","url":null,"abstract":"Amid escalating global climate change and environmental degradation, mangrove ecosystems face challenges like rapid biodiversity loss, intensified human activities, invasive alien species, and recurrent natural disasters. This highlights the urgent necessity for more research and informed conservation strategies. Our study meets this need by using advanced bibliometric techniques to analyze mangrove research trends, evolution, and gaps from 1996 to 2022. It aims to bridge the knowledge gap by providing a comprehensive understanding of mangrove research dynamics, interdisciplinary integration, geographical distribution, and future research priorities. The study presents a thorough analysis of over 14,534 multidisciplinary scientific publications covering ecology, forestry, oceanography, and environmental management. Our findings, based on both quantitative and qualitative methods, show that: (1) The 26-year mangrove research is split into two phases: 1996–2008 as the initial exploration stage and 2009–2022 as the significant leap stage.in. The literature volume surged, especially in 2009 when the article count leaped from 32 to 543, signaling the start of rapid growth in mangrove research; (2) These studies reflect interdisciplinary integration, drawing from environmental science, marine/freshwater biology, ecology, oceanography, plant science, and molecular biology, with a particular emphasis on marine and freshwater biology, environmental science, and ecology; (3) China and the US lead, with 3,246 and 2,671 publications, making up 22.33% and 18.38%, respectively. India is third with 1719 publications (11.83%). Brazil, Australia, Germany, and others follow closely, jointly expanding mangrove research and deepening understanding of conservation management; (4) Current mangrove research centers on key areas like conservation, management, and restoration, climate adaptation, biodiversity, sediment analysis, and blue carbon assessment. In the future, we need to bolster mangrove research, focusing on climate change response, carbon cycle mechanisms, and exploring more potential emerging blue carbon. Socially, blue carbon management should be enhanced, along with mathematical modeling and prediction capabilities. Interdisciplinary and international collaborations must be deepened. This study combines traditional bibliometric review with modern visual analysis tools to conduct metrics-perspective network metrics, clustering, and visualization of the mangrove literature, showing its novelty. It offers the latest, in-depth insights, serving as a valuable reference for scholars, managers, and governments, facilitating sustainable management and advancing Nature-based Solutions.","PeriodicalId":203,"journal":{"name":"Land Degradation & Development","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143539327","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Earlier Spring Onset Induced by Increased Autumn Precipitation Dominates Advance in Peak of Season on the Tibetan Plateau","authors":"Xiaoting Li, Wei Guo, Shuheng Li, Hao He","doi":"10.1002/ldr.5552","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ldr.5552","url":null,"abstract":"Vegetation phenology is a response to a finely tuned interplay between different climatic constraints and is thus a critical indicator of vegetation –climate interaction. The rapidly changing climate on the Tibetan Plateau (TP) alters the start of the growing season (SOS), but little is known regarding the following timing and dynamics of the peak of the season (POS) vegetation phenology. In the present study, we used the 2000–2018 Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) derived normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) for land surface phenology (LSP) tracking and analyzed the SOS and POS over time and against climatic changes in the alpine grassland on the TP. We found non-significant advancing trends in SOS and POS from 2000 to 2018, while spatial heterogeneity existed with a delayed trend of SOS in the steppe area of the western TP. This widespread yet weak delaying SOS in steppe areas was mainly due to the decline in autumn precipitation of the previous year despite the increase in spring temperature, given the negative correlations between SOS and autumn precipitation. In addition, precipitation and SOS were the most important factors leading to changes in spatial variations of SOS and POS, respectively. These findings suggest that high water availability accumulated in the previous autumn may hasten spring phenology. This advancing trend in spring timing could lead to an earlier peak of the season in alpine grasslands. Water availability and phenological carryover effect regulate the interannual and spatial variations of the spring–summer phenology of the Tibetan Plateau. However, spatial heterogeneity of LSP changes is likely to amplify further with consideration of response variability in different vegetation types.","PeriodicalId":203,"journal":{"name":"Land Degradation & Development","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143532513","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Enhancing Environmental Sustainability in the Mining Industry: Circular Economy Strategies for Resource Management and Digital Integration","authors":"Wenhan Zhu, Deyi Kong, Qing Ye, Xinting Zhang, Dongle Tian, Yasir Ahmed Solangi","doi":"10.1002/ldr.5539","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ldr.5539","url":null,"abstract":"Effective natural resource management is essential for balancing economic growth with environmental sustainability, especially in resource-intensive industries. This study addresses critical issues in natural resource management, with a particular focus on the mining industry. It incorporates digitalization and supply chain distribution within the framework of the circular economy to achieve sustainability, mitigate land degradation, and realize economic benefits. In response to challenges posed by climate change, resource scarcity, and land degradation, the circular economy has emerged as a key objective, particularly in resource-intensive sectors like mining. The primary research question aims to identify the criteria and strategies that effectively support the transition to a circular approach in mining operations. To investigate this, the study employed the fuzzy analytical hierarchy process (FAHP) method to assess various criteria and sub-criteria. Subsequently, the fuzzy technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (FTOPSIS) method was applied to rank the strategies, offering a comprehensive analysis of this decision-making challenge. The FAHP analysis indicates resource efficiency is the most crucial criterion, followed by supply chain and digital integration as top priorities. Additionally, the FTOPSIS analysis shows resource recovery systems, green logistics, and circular product design as the key strategies for fostering a circular economy approach within the mining sector. These findings give important guidance to policymakers and industry leaders. They help in creating sustainable strategies specifically for the mining industry. Through these strategies, stakeholders can achieve both environmental, economic, and social advantages.","PeriodicalId":203,"journal":{"name":"Land Degradation & Development","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143532307","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Perceptions of Forest-Dwelling Communities of Fire-Induced Forest Degradation in the Amazon and Its Implications for Improving Biocultural Restoration","authors":"Cassio Alves Pereira, Amanda Estefânia Melo Ferreira, Marcelo Tabarelli, Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira","doi":"10.1002/ldr.5545","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ldr.5545","url":null,"abstract":"Accidental fires pose a huge threat to the integrity of tropical forests, including the social forests managed by traditional populations in the Brazilian Amazon. Thus, understanding and incorporating the perception of local actors in strategies to search for solutions is an urgent demand. This study examines the perception of residents of three indigenous communities of the Tapajós –Arapiuns Extractive Reserve, eastern Amazon, about the causes and consequences of forest degradation by fire (i.e., accidental forest fires). The Pressure –State –Impact –Response methodology was applied, considering 4 dimensions, 14 indicators, and 32 response variables. The data were collected in 2019 through semi-structured interviews with 35 residents of indigenous communities who declare themselves to be of the Tupinambá ethnicity. A correspondence analysis was performed verifying the occurrence of scenarios favorable and unfavorable to the fire according to the interviewees. In general, the communities studied recognize the vulnerability of the territory to the occurrence of fire, particularly in times of severe drought. In addition, they recognize social, economic, and environmental losses and are willing to act to contain the degradation and restoration of burned forests to restore the losses caused by fire. This perception not only benefits but makes the incorporation of these actors a key element in potential strategies to combat degradation, including the design and execution of initiatives for the biocultural restoration of social forests.","PeriodicalId":203,"journal":{"name":"Land Degradation & Development","volume":"39 5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143532305","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}