Land degradation and restoration in the arid and semiarid zones of China: Quantified evidence and implications from satellites

China's wetlands loss to urban expansion

(2018) Dehua Mao et al.   LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT

Effects of national ecological restoration projects on carbon sequestration in China from 2001 to 2010

(2018) Fei Lu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Impacts of Climate Change on Tibetan Lakes: Patterns and Processes

(2018) Dehua Mao et al.   Remote Sensing

A global analysis of land take in cropland areas and production displacement from urbanization

(2017) Jasper van Vliet et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

Water shortages raised a legitimate concern over the sustainable development of the drylands of northern China: Evidence from the water stress index

(2017) Jingwei Li et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Comparative assessment of grassland degradation dynamics in response to climate variation and human activities in China, Mongolia, Pakistan and Uzbekistan from 2000 to 2013

(2016) Yue Yang et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Effects of an ecological conservation and restoration project in the Three-River Source Region, China

(2016) Quanqin Shao et al.   Journal of Geographical Sciences

Improvements in ecosystem services from investments in natural capital

(2016) Z. Ouyang et al.   SCIENCE

Revegetation in China’s Loess Plateau is approaching sustainable water resource limits

(2016) Xiaoming Feng et al.   Nature Climate Change

Land Cover Mapping in Southwestern China Using the HC-MMK Approach

(2016) Guangbin Lei et al.   Remote Sensing

Ecological Restoration and Its Effects on a Regional Climate: The Source Region of the Yellow River, China

(2015) Zhouyuan Li et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Trend analysis of MODIS NDVI time series for detecting land degradation and regeneration in Mongolia

(2015) Sandra Eckert et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Balancing green and grain trade

(2015) Yiping Chen et al.   Nature Geoscience

Rapid loss of lakes on the Mongolian Plateau

(2015) Shengli Tao et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Recent ecological transitions in China: greening, browning and influential factors

(2015) Yihe Lü et al.   Scientific Reports

Spatiotemporal dynamics of grassland aboveground net primary productivity and its association with climatic pattern and changes in Northern China

(2014) Dehua Mao et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Assessing environmental security in China

(2014) R Edward Grumbine   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Urban expansion dynamics and natural habitat loss in China: a multiscale landscape perspective

(2014) Chunyang He et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Spatial–Temporal Analyses of Surface Coal Mining Dominated Land Degradation in Holingol, Inner Mongolia

(2014) Tana Qian et al.   IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Object-based approach to national land cover mapping using HJ satellite imagery

(2014) Lei Zhang et al.   Journal of Applied Remote Sensing

The contribution of China’s Grain to Green Program to carbon sequestration

(2014) Dan Liu et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Society: Realizing China's urban dream

(2014) Xuemei Bai et al.   NATURE

Effects of grassland restoration programs on ecosystems in arid and semiarid China

(2013) Lin Huang et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Monitoring and analysis of grassland desertification dynamics using Landsat images in Ningxia, China

(2013) Jinya Li et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

A Policy-Driven Large Scale Ecological Restoration: Quantifying Ecosystem Services Changes in the Loess Plateau of China

(2012) Yihe Lü et al.   PLoS One

A review of large area monitoring of land cover change using Landsat data

(2012) Matthew C. Hansen et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

A comparative analysis of forest cover and catchment water yield relationships in northern China

(2011) Shuai Wang et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Integrating AVHRR and MODIS data to monitor NDVI changes and their relationships with climatic parameters in Northeast China

(2011) Dehua Mao et al.   International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Quantitative mapping of global land degradation using Earth observations

(2011) Rogier de Jong et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING

China faces up to 'terrible' state of its ecosystems

(2011) Jane Qiu   NATURE

Excessive reliance on afforestation in China's arid and semi-arid regions: Lessons in ecological restoration

(2010) Shixiong Cao et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Shrinkage and fragmentation of marshes in the West Songnen Plain, China, from 1954 to 2008 and its possible causes

(2010) Zongming Wang et al.   International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Drought-Induced Reduction in Global Terrestrial Net Primary Production from 2000 Through 2009

(2010) M. Zhao et al.   SCIENCE

Assessing China’s Ecological Restoration Programs: What’s Been Done and What Remains to Be Done?

(2009) Runsheng Yin et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Impact of China's Grain for Green Project on the landscape of vulnerable arid and semi-arid agricultural regions: a case study in northern Shaanxi Province

(2009) Shixiong Cao et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Detection and mapping of long-term land degradation using local net production scaling: Application to Zimbabwe

(2009) S.D. Prince et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Shrinkage and fragmentation of grasslands in the West Songnen Plain, China

(2008) Zongming Wang et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Desertification in China: An assessment

(2008) Xunming Wang et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Ecological and socioeconomic effects of China's policies for ecosystem services

(2008) J. Liu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Proxy global assessment of land degradation

(2008) Z. G. Bai et al.   SOIL USE AND MANAGEMENT