Did Ecological Restoration Hit Its Mark? Monitoring and Assessing Ecological Changes in the Grain for Green Program Region Using Multi-source Satellite Images

Spatially explicit assessment of ecosystem services in China's Loess Plateau: Patterns, interactions, drivers, and implications

(2018) Chong Jiang et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

Assessment of biomass and net primary productivity of a dry tropical forest using geospatial technology

(2018) Tarun Kumar Thakur et al.   JOURNAL OF FORESTRY RESEARCH

Significant trade-off for the impact of Grain-for-Green Programme on ecosystem services in North-western Yunnan, China

(2017) Jitao Wang et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Identifying the Areas Benefitting from the Prevention of Wind Erosion by the Key Ecological Function Area for the Protection of Desertification in Hunshandake, China

(2017) Yu Xiao et al.   Sustainability

A quantitative review of relationships between ecosystem services

(2016) Heera Lee et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

China's ecosystems: Overlooked species

(2016) Z. Jiang et al.   SCIENCE

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

Reduced sediment transport in the Yellow River due to anthropogenic changes

(2015) Shuai Wang et al.   Nature Geoscience

Numerical study on the effect of semi-buried straw checkerboard sand barriers belt on the wind speed

(2015) Tian-Li Bo et al.   Aeolian Research

The tradeoff and synergy between ecosystem services in the Grain-for-Green areas in Northern Shaanxi, China

(2014) Xiaoqing Jia et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Assessment of multiple ecosystem services in New Zealand at the catchment scale

(2013) A.-G.E. Ausseil et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MODELLING & SOFTWARE

Spatial patterns and impacts of soil conservation service in China

(2013) Enming Rao et al.   GEOMORPHOLOGY

Land-use conversion and changing soil carbon stocks in China's ‘Grain-for-Green’ Program: a synthesis

(2013) Lei Deng et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Soil erosion and its response to the changes of precipitation and vegetation cover on the Loess Plateau

(2013) Wenyi Sun et al.   Journal of Geographical Sciences

Higher levels of multiple ecosystem services are found in forests with more tree species

(2013) Lars Gamfeldt et al.   Nature Communications

Fractional vegetation cover estimation in arid and semi-arid environments using HJ-1 satellite hyperspectral data

(2012) Xianfeng Zhang et al.   International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Ecosystem services from forest restoration: thinking ahead

(2012) Lorenzo Ciccarese et al.   NEW FORESTS

Sustaining conservation values in selectively logged tropical forests: the attained and the attainable

(2012) Francis E. Putz et al.   Conservation Letters

A comparison of methods for estimating fractional vegetation cover in arid regions

(2011) Guli Jiapaer et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

The functional role of producer diversity in ecosystems

(2011) Bradley J. Cardinale et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Unequal clonal deployment improves genetic gains at constant diversity levels for clonal forestry

(2011) Yuhui Weng et al.   Tree Genetics & Genomes

Damage Caused to the Environment by Reforestation Policies in Arid and Semi-Arid Areas of China

(2010) Shixiong Cao et al.   AMBIO

The impact of vegetative cover type on runoff and soil erosion under different land uses

(2010) Ayed G. Mohammad et al.   CATENA

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

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

A study on the relationship between dynamic change of vegetation coverage and precipitation in Beijing’s mountainous areas during the last 20 years

(2010) Xia Jing et al.   MATHEMATICAL AND COMPUTER MODELLING

Use of innovative technology for the production of high-quality forest regeneration materials

(2010) A. Mattsson et al.   SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Comparison of three vegetation monitoring methods: Their relative utility for ecological assessment and monitoring

(2009) H. Godínez-Alvarez et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Understanding relationships among multiple ecosystem services

(2009) Elena M. Bennett et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

China’s Primary Programs of Terrestrial Ecosystem Restoration: Initiation, Implementation, and Challenges

(2009) Runsheng Yin et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Effects of landscape restoration on soil water storage and water use in the Loess Plateau Region, China

(2009) Liding Chen et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND 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

Turbulence structure above a vegetation canopy

(2009) JOHN J. FINNIGAN et al.   JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS

Updating the 2001 National Land Cover Database land cover classification to 2006 by using Landsat imagery change detection methods

(2009) George Xian et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

A modeling and spatio-temporal analysis framework for monitoring environmental change using NPP as an ecosystem indicator

(2009) Robert Crabtree et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Certification Schemes and the Impacts on Forests and Forestry

(2008) Graeme Auld et al.   Annual Review of Environment and Resources

Shielding effect of oasis-protection systems composed of various forms of wind break on sand fixation in an arid region: A case study in the Hexi Corridor, northwest China

(2008) Wenzhi Zhao et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING

Impact of Spatial and Temporal Scales on Afforestation Effects: Response to Comment on “Why Large-Scale Afforestation Efforts in China Have Failed to Solve the Desertification Problem”

(2008) Shixiong Cao   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Why Large-Scale Afforestation Efforts in China Have Failed To Solve the Desertification Problem

(2008) Shixiong Cao   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Forest change of China in recent 300 years

(2008) Fanneng He et al.   Journal of Geographical Sciences

Spatially and temporally continuous LAI data sets based on an integrated filtering method: Examples from North America

(2007) H FANG et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT