Social-ecological system management in drylands: experiences from Chinese Ecosystem Research Network

A sedimentological connectivity approach for assessing on-site and off-site soil erosion control services

(2020) Yu Liu et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

The Global-DEP conceptual framework — research on dryland ecosystems to promote sustainability

(2020) Bojie Fu et al.   Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Revegetation has increased ecosystem water-use efficiency during 2000–2014 in the Chinese Loess Plateau: Evidence from satellite data

(2019) Han Zheng et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Maximum carbon uptake rate dominates the interannual variability of global net ecosystem exchange

(2019) Zheng Fu et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Remote sensing of dryland ecosystem structure and function: Progress, challenges, and opportunities

(2019) William K. Smith et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Predicting the climate change impacts on water-carbon coupling cycles for a loess hilly-gully watershed

(2019) Fubo Zhao et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY

Spatial patterns of hydrological responses to land use/cover change in a catchment on the Loess Plateau, China

(2018) Rui Yan et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Hydrological response of biological soil crusts to global warming: A ten-year simulative study

(2018) Xin-Rong Li et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Carbon pools in China’s terrestrial ecosystems: New estimates based on an intensive field survey

(2018) Xuli Tang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Climate change, human impacts, and carbon sequestration in China

(2018) Jingyun Fang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Genesis, goals and achievements of Long-Term Ecological Research at the global scale: A critical review of ILTER and future directions

(2018) M. Mirtl et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Research advances in ecosystem services in drylands under global environmental changes

(2018) Nan Lu et al.   Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Incorporation of potential natural vegetation into revegetation programmes for sustainable land management

(2018) Shouzhang Peng et al.   LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT

What do We Talk about When We Talk about Social-Ecological Systems? A Literature Review

(2018) Cristina Herrero-Jáuregui et al.   Sustainability

Contrasting responses of leaf stomatal characteristics to climate change: a considerable challenge to predict carbon and water cycles

(2017) Weiming Yan et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Past and future carbon sequestration benefits of China’s grain for green program

(2017) Lei Deng et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

Scale dependence of the diversity-stability relationship in a temperate grassland

(2017) Yunhai Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Did streamflow or suspended sediment concentration changes reduce sediment load in the middle reaches of the Yellow River?

(2017) Jianjun Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY

Changes in biodiversity and trade-offs among ecosystem services, stakeholders, and components of well-being: the contribution of the International Long-Term Ecological Research network (ILTER) to Programme on Ecosystem Change and Society (PECS)

(2016) Manuel Maass et al.   ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY

Social-ecological resilience and biosphere-based sustainability science

(2016) Carl Folke et al.   ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY

Nitrogen enrichment weakens ecosystem stability through decreased species asynchrony and population stability in a temperate grassland

(2016) Yunhai Zhang et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Soil Organic Carbon and Inorganic Carbon Accumulation Along a 30-year Grassland Restoration Chronosequence in Semi-arid Regions (China)

(2016) Yu Liu et al.   LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT

The lessons learned from shifting from global-change research programmes to transdisciplinary sustainability science

(2016) Rik Leemans   Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

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

(2016) Xiaoming Feng et al.   Nature Climate Change

Dryland expansion in northern China from 1948 to 2008

(2015) Yue Li et al.   ADVANCES IN ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES

Policy shifts influence the functional changes of the CNH systems on the Mongolian plateau

(2015) Jiquan Chen et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Detection and attribution of vegetation greening trend in China over the last 30 years

(2015) Shilong Piao et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The dominant role of semi-arid ecosystems in the trend and variability of the land CO2 sink

(2015) A. Ahlstrom et al.   SCIENCE

Defining biocultural approaches to conservation

(2015) Michael C. Gavin et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Accelerated dryland expansion under climate change

(2015) Jianping Huang et al.   Nature Climate Change

Dynamic Response of Satellite-Derived Vegetation Growth to Climate Change in the Three North Shelter Forest Region in China

(2015) Bin He et al.   Remote Sensing

Contribution of semi-arid ecosystems to interannual variability of the global carbon cycle

(2014) Benjamin Poulter et al.   NATURE

Carbon sequestration capacity of shifting sand dune after establishing new vegetation in the Tengger Desert, northern China

(2014) Haotian Yang et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

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

Effects of warming and grazing on soil N availability, species composition, and ANPP in an alpine meadow

(2012) Shiping Wang et al.   ECOLOGY

Program on ecosystem change and society: an international research strategy for integrated social–ecological systems

(2012) Stephen R Carpenter et al.   Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Chinese ecosystem research network: Progress and perspectives

(2010) Bojie Fu et al.   Ecological Complexity

A General Framework for Analyzing Sustainability of Social-Ecological Systems

(2009) Elinor Ostrom   SCIENCE