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Development of a modified thermal humidity index and its application to human thermal comfort of urban vegetation patches 一种修正的热湿指数的建立及其在城市植被斑块人体热舒适度中的应用

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Ecosystem Health and Sustainability Pub Date : 2022-09-28 DOI: 10.1080/20964129.2022.2130095

Xiaorou Zheng, Na Zhang, Xin Wang

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引用次数: 3

Challenges and possible solutions to creating an achievable and effective Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework 创建可实现和有效的2020年后全球生物多样性框架的挑战和可能的解决方案

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Ecosystem Health and Sustainability Pub Date : 2022-09-16 DOI: 10.1080/20964129.2022.2124196

Alice C. Hughes, Xiaoli Shen, R. Corlett, Lin Li, Maofang Luo, Stephen Woodley, Yuanming Zhang, Ke-Ping Ma

{"title":"Challenges and possible solutions to creating an achievable and effective Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework","authors":"Alice C. Hughes, Xiaoli Shen, R. Corlett, Lin Li, Maofang Luo, Stephen Woodley, Yuanming Zhang, Ke-Ping Ma","doi":"10.1080/20964129.2022.2124196","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20964129.2022.2124196","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Global biodiversity is in crisis as a result of human activity. This biodiversity crisis has been well documented by scientists, recognized by world leaders, politicians, businesses, and citizens. Both the biodiversity and climate crises need to be addressed now. 2020 was when this change was supposed to start, with the 15th Conference of Parties (COP15) of the Convention on Biodiversity (CBD) meeting in Kunming, and the 26th Conference of Parties (COP26) of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change meeting in Glasgow, but both meetings were postponed. COP26 was held a year late (November 2021), while COP15 was split into two, with the first part held in Kunming in October 2021, and the second part scheduled for Montreal in December 2022. This meeting in Montreal – arguably the most important in the CBDs history – must agree on the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), to reverse biodiversity loss. Failure to reach agreement in Montreal would ultimately be a failure of us all, with irreversible consequences for life on earth. Yet, with three months before the final deadline only 20% of text and two targets are agreed. This paper reviews the factors hindering progress on the agreement and suggests possible solutions.","PeriodicalId":54216,"journal":{"name":"Ecosystem Health and Sustainability","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2022-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43618174","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}

引用次数: 5

A new perspective on ecological vulnerability and its transformation mechanisms 生态脆弱性及其转化机制的新视角

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Ecosystem Health and Sustainability Pub Date : 2022-08-25 DOI: 10.1080/20964129.2022.2115403

K. Hou, Wendong Tao, D. He, Xuxiang Li

{"title":"A new perspective on ecological vulnerability and its transformation mechanisms","authors":"K. Hou, Wendong Tao, D. He, Xuxiang Li","doi":"10.1080/20964129.2022.2115403","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20964129.2022.2115403","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Ecological vulnerability refers to the degree of ecosystem disturbance, system damage, and the ability of system restoration. Although case-specific evaluations of ecological vulnerability are progressing rapidly, they have been carried out mainly in areas with intensive human activities or in harsh natural environments. Using the Web of ScienceTM core collection, this review paper summarized studies on ecological vulnerability published from 2000 to 2022 and analyzed in depth major case studies. It was found that traditional ecological vulnerability research has been addressed largely in terms of assessment models, data processing models, and analysis of influencing factors, however there was a lack of research on the process of vulnerability transformation. Because the vulnerability transformation in a hierarchical vulnerability index system is regulated by multiple factors in a heterogeneous region, it is urgent to understand how the ecological vulnerability in a region evolves from one level to another over time. Therefore this paper put forward the new perspective of research, i.e., applying quantitative analysis to identification of regulating factors and exploring the mechanisms of ecological vulnerability transformation. This new perspective could assist in monitoring the complex spatiotemporal changes in ecological vulnerability and taking necessary measures to prevent from decline of ecological stability. Graphical abstract","PeriodicalId":54216,"journal":{"name":"Ecosystem Health and Sustainability","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2022-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42862411","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}

引用次数: 3

Consideration of climate change impacts will improve the efficiency of protected areas on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau 考虑气候变化的影响将提高青藏高原保护区的效率

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Ecosystem Health and Sustainability Pub Date : 2022-08-24 DOI: 10.1080/20964129.2022.2117089

Zijian Lu, Liang Wang, Nan Meng, Xuhuan Dai, Jingyi Zhu, Yan-zheng Yang, Ruonan Li, Jinfeng Ma, Hua Zheng

{"title":"Consideration of climate change impacts will improve the efficiency of protected areas on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau","authors":"Zijian Lu, Liang Wang, Nan Meng, Xuhuan Dai, Jingyi Zhu, Yan-zheng Yang, Ruonan Li, Jinfeng Ma, Hua Zheng","doi":"10.1080/20964129.2022.2117089","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20964129.2022.2117089","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The protection of migratory birds and their habitats is important to the ecological stability of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP). Currently protected areas (PAs) were designed in accordance with species distribution patterns under current climatic conditions, thus ignoring climate change will lead to a decrease in the protection efficiency of PAs. In this study, using the flagship species Grus nigricollis, as an example, we used the maximum entropy (MaxEnt) model to simulate the distributions and conservation status of G. nigricollis and optimized the existing PA boundaries . The results showed that (1) suitable habitat- for G. nigricollis accounts for 12.48% of the QTP area, and the PAs established under current climatic conditions cover 17.84% of this suitable habitat area; (2) future climate changes will influence the distribution and quality of G. nigricollis habitats, and the average protection efficiency of the current PAs in four climatic scenarios will decrease from 17.84% to 15.31%; and (3) through optimization, the efficiency of existing PAs can be increased by 0.75 times and reach 28.37%, indicating PA planning must consider not only current climate conditions but also the effects of climate changes. Our results aim to address shortcomings in the conservation efficiency of PAs and provide an example for resolving mismatched PA boundaries and habitat changes for species.","PeriodicalId":54216,"journal":{"name":"Ecosystem Health and Sustainability","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2022-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48501043","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}

引用次数: 0

Impacts of regional land-use patterns on ecosystem services in the typical agro-pastoral ecotone of northern China 中国北方典型农牧交错带区域土地利用格局对生态系统服务的影响

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Ecosystem Health and Sustainability Pub Date : 2022-08-08 DOI: 10.1080/20964129.2022.2110521

Huimin Chen, Yu Zhao, Xiao Fu, Mingfang Tang, Mingjie Guo, Shiqi Zhang, Y. Zhu, L. Qu, Gang Wu

{"title":"Impacts of regional land-use patterns on ecosystem services in the typical agro-pastoral ecotone of northern China","authors":"Huimin Chen, Yu Zhao, Xiao Fu, Mingfang Tang, Mingjie Guo, Shiqi Zhang, Y. Zhu, L. Qu, Gang Wu","doi":"10.1080/20964129.2022.2110521","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20964129.2022.2110521","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT A comprehensive understanding of the spatial-temporal evolution and driving forces on ecosystem services (ES) is essential for the agro-pastoral ecotone’s ecological security in northern China. However, the land-use pattern (LULC) agglomeration with spatial differentiation in the pastoral and agricultural areas has been rarely concerned. Taking distinct LULC (1980–2018) in Chifeng as an example, we compared four crucial categories of ESs with InVEST. Using SEM, we further contrasted the effects of several variables on regional ES variations in pastoral-dominated (North) and agriculture-dominated (South) regions, respectively. Results revealed the conversion between forest and grassland oriented the LULC transformation in the North. In contrast, human-activitiy-oriented land tended to occupy environmentally sensitive places in the South. Similar ES variations were supplied with the North outperforming the South when soil conservation was omitted. As for the impacts of regional ES variations, the natural and LULC policies both showed positive effects, whereas the anthropogenic factors showed positive in the North, which was negative in the South. Therefore, the ecologically-maintained-dominant and ecologically-restored-dominant strategies should be separately adopted in the North and South. Our study provided appropriate regional ecological management suggestions for balancing the LULC-driven conflicts between ecological protection and regional development.","PeriodicalId":54216,"journal":{"name":"Ecosystem Health and Sustainability","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2022-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47569037","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}

引用次数: 4

Influences of drought on the stability of an alpine meadow ecosystem 干旱对高寒草甸生态系统稳定性的影响

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Ecosystem Health and Sustainability Pub Date : 2022-08-05 DOI: 10.1080/20964129.2022.2110523

Tao Zhang, Ximeng Ji, Mingjie Xu, Guang Zhao, Zhoutao Zheng, Y. Tang, Ning Chen, Juntao Zhu, Yongtao He, Yang-jian Zhang

{"title":"Influences of drought on the stability of an alpine meadow ecosystem","authors":"Tao Zhang, Ximeng Ji, Mingjie Xu, Guang Zhao, Zhoutao Zheng, Y. Tang, Ning Chen, Juntao Zhu, Yongtao He, Yang-jian Zhang","doi":"10.1080/20964129.2022.2110523","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20964129.2022.2110523","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Drought plays a prominent role in affecting ecosystem stability and ecosystem productivity. Based on eddy covariance and climatic observations during 2012–2020, the Fisher discriminant analysis method was employed to accurately detect drought occurrences. Furthermore, the ecosystem water sensitivity and its resistance to drought were quantified to evaluate the ecosystem stability. The results showed that the alpine meadow suffered drought most frequently at the beginning of the growing seasons. However, drought during the peak growing seasons reduced the gross primary productivity (GPP) the most, by 30.5 ± 15.2%. In the middle of the peak growing seasons, the ecosystem water sensitivity was weak, and thus, the resistance to drought was strong, which resulted in high ecosystem stability. At the beginning and end of the peak growing seasons, the ecosystem stability was relatively weak. Ecosystem stability was positively related to the corresponding multiyear average soil water content (SWCave). However, drought occurring during high SWCave periods led to larger reductions in GPP, which indicated that the inhibitory effects of drought on ecosystems were more dependent on the occurrence time of droughts than on ecosystem stability.","PeriodicalId":54216,"journal":{"name":"Ecosystem Health and Sustainability","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2022-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44391575","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}

引用次数: 2

Supply-side drivers of phosphorus emissions from phosphorus supply chains in China 中国磷供应链中磷排放的供给侧驱动因素

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Ecosystem Health and Sustainability Pub Date : 2022-07-29 DOI: 10.1080/20964129.2022.2107578

J. Zhang, Qiumeng Zhong, Yadong Yu, Jetashree ., Xuechun Yang, Cuiyang Feng, Hui Li, Sai Liang

{"title":"Supply-side drivers of phosphorus emissions from phosphorus supply chains in China","authors":"J. Zhang, Qiumeng Zhong, Yadong Yu, Jetashree ., Xuechun Yang, Cuiyang Feng, Hui Li, Sai Liang","doi":"10.1080/20964129.2022.2107578","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20964129.2022.2107578","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Human activities interfere with natural Phosphorus (P) cycles by introducing increased levels of P emissions to air, land, and water. A supply-side analysis of P supply chains and associated P emissions can provide insights into underlying economic activities and transitions responsible for human-induced P emissions. Taking the mainland China as the case, this study constructs time-series physical input-output tables to describe P supply chains during 1949–2012. Subsequently, it identifies critical products and influencing factors of P supply chains enabling P emissions to the environment (including air, land, and water) from the supply perspective. The results show that phosphate rock, an important initial supplier of P from natural environment to China’s P supply chain, was responsible for 86% of P emissions in 2012. Moreover, food crops and livestock are important initial suppliers of P from soil to China’s P supply chain, through cultivation and pasturing, respectively. From 1949 to 2012, the change in primary input level was the largest driver of P emission increments, followed by changes in population, emission intensity, and primary input structure. On the contrary, changes in production structure reduced P emissions. These findings could support supply-side policy decisions on P emission control.","PeriodicalId":54216,"journal":{"name":"Ecosystem Health and Sustainability","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2022-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48684601","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}

引用次数: 4

The new species and the third Chinese member of Colubrina (C. zhaoguangii, Rhamnaceae) 鼠李属(C. zhaoguangii，鼠李科)新种及中国第三属

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Ecosystem Health and Sustainability Pub Date : 2022-07-25 DOI: 10.1080/20964129.2022.2105750

Jun Hu, Wei-li Liu, Hong Jiang, Qing Liu, Yi Yang

引用次数: 0

Identifying priority areas for conservation in the lower Yellow River basin from an ecological network perspective 从生态网络的角度确定黄河下游优先保护区域

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Ecosystem Health and Sustainability Pub Date : 2022-07-25 DOI: 10.1080/20964129.2022.2105751

Jieming Kang, Chunlin Li, Meirui Li, Teng Zhang, Baolei Zhang

{"title":"Identifying priority areas for conservation in the lower Yellow River basin from an ecological network perspective","authors":"Jieming Kang, Chunlin Li, Meirui Li, Teng Zhang, Baolei Zhang","doi":"10.1080/20964129.2022.2105751","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20964129.2022.2105751","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Taking the lower Yellow River basin as the study area, this study aims to construct ecological networks to mitigate the negative impacts of rapid urbanization on the ecosystem. Ecological sources were identified based on morphological spatial pattern analysis (MSPA), habitat quality and landscape connectivity. The ecological resistance surface was constructed and corrected by integrating natural and anthropogenic factors. The spatial range of ecological corridors and some of their key nodes were identified based on circuit theory. The ecological network (EN) was finally optimized using a similarity search and cost connectivity modules. The results show that the optimized ecological network structure is more stable than before. The EN includes 23 ecological sources with a total area of 5464.8 km2 and 30 ecological corridor clusters with a total area of 2205.92 km2. Through the internal landscape heterogeneity of the corridor, 28 ecological node areas and 75 barrier areas were identified as key protection and restoration areas, with a total area of 78.44 km2 and 372.79 km2, respectively. Through the construction and optimization of EN, this study identifies key areas for promoting ecological sustainability and provides a useful framework for coordinating regional ecological conservation and economic development.","PeriodicalId":54216,"journal":{"name":"Ecosystem Health and Sustainability","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2022-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46769309","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}

引用次数: 13

Blue carbon sequestration following mangrove restoration: evidence from a carbon neutral case in China 红树林恢复后的蓝色碳固存:来自中国碳中和案例的证据

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Ecosystem Health and Sustainability Pub Date : 2022-07-19 DOI: 10.1080/20964129.2022.2101547

Sourav Bagchi Ratul, Xiaoxuan Gu, Peiyang Qiao, Febrina Wulanda Sagala, Shuhua Nan, Nazrul Islam, Luzhen Chen

{"title":"Blue carbon sequestration following mangrove restoration: evidence from a carbon neutral case in China","authors":"Sourav Bagchi Ratul, Xiaoxuan Gu, Peiyang Qiao, Febrina Wulanda Sagala, Shuhua Nan, Nazrul Islam, Luzhen Chen","doi":"10.1080/20964129.2022.2101547","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20964129.2022.2101547","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Sequestration of blue carbon (C) in mangrove plantations depends on site characteristics and plantation management. This study evaluated the effects of plantation management on C sequestration at a C-neutral site in Xiamen, China. A field study was conducted on 10-year-old Sonneratia apetala and Kandelia obovata plantations (mono-Sa, mono-Ko) and a 15-year-old mixed plantation-. We found that mono-Ko had a significantly higher ecosystem C sequestration rate (3.32 ± 0.62 kg C m−2 yr−1) than others when planted in the indirect shade of pioneer species. As a non-native species, Sonneratia performed better (0.57 ± 0.01 kg C m−2 yr−1) when planted with Kandelia than in monotypic plantations. The temporary and long-term certified emission reduction (tCER and lCER) of the 12.98 ha mono-Ko was 4103.89 and 3693.50 net CO2-e within 10 years, respectively. A literature review was conducted to show the compatibility of this study with other natural and plantation sites of China and Bangladesh (the native habitat for Sonneratia). The C sequestration of Sonneratia plantation sites in China is comparable with those in Bangladesh. However, the soil C accumulation rate for a Sonneratia monotypic plantation in Bangladesh decreased with age, yet the same did not occur in the plantations of China.","PeriodicalId":54216,"journal":{"name":"Ecosystem Health and Sustainability","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2022-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41639154","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}

引用次数: 3