The Geographical Sciences During 1986—2015
From the Classics To the Frontiers
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Open AccessA regimen based on the combination of trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole with caspofungin and corticosteroids as a first-line therapy for patients with severe non-HIV-related pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia: a retrospective study in a tertiary hospital
Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PJP) is a life-threatening and severe disease in immunocompromised hosts. A synergistic regimen based on the combination of sulfamethoxazole-trimethoprim (SMX-TMP) with caspof...
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Dryland Ecosystem Services and Human Wellbeing in a Changing Environment and Society
The framework of the Global Dryland Ecosystem Programme (Global-DEP) combines the ecosystem service (ES) research paradigm and system dynamics thinking. The core of the framework is the resilience of social-ec...
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Dryland Social-Ecological Systems in Australia
Dryland social-ecological systems in Australia are characterized by a water-limited climate, vulnerable terrestrial ecosystems, advanced ecosystem management, and the highest average wealth. Dryland social-eco...
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A conceptual model for a process-oriented landscape pattern analysis
Linking landscape patterns to specific ecological processes has been and will continue to be the key topic in landscape ecology. However, this goal is difficult to achieve by using the traditional landscape me...
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Spatio-temporal characteristics and driving forces of landscape structure changes in the middle reach of the Heihe River Basin from 1990 to 2015
The oasis, desert–oasis ecotone (DOE) and desert compose the typical landscape structures in arid regions. The detection of landscape structure changes and quantification of the driving forces are vital to sus...
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Spatio-temporal variations of the flood mitigation service of ecosystem under different climate scenarios in the Upper Reaches of Hanjiang River Basin, China
Extreme rainstorm and the subsequent flood increasingly threaten the security of human society and ecological environment with aggravation of global climate change and anthropogenic activity in recent years. T...
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Temporal variation and spatial scale dependency of ecosystem service interactions: a case study on the central Loess Plateau of China
An important feature of ecosystem service interaction is that it changes over time and across spatial scales.
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Ecosystem Services
Ecosystem services, the benefits people obtain from ecosystems, can be comprehended and implemented as integrative indicators in human-environment systems. Researches on ecosystem services have gained an enorm...
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Revegetation in China’s Loess Plateau is approaching sustainable water resource limits
China’s ‘Grain for Green’ revegetation programme has potential to help mitigate climate change. However, the increased water demand in the Loess Plateau is approaching a level that will impact on water availab...
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Open AccessRoots of forbs sense climate fluctuations in the semi-arid Loess Plateau: Herb-chronology based analysis
Growth of herbaceous plants responds sensitively and rapidly to climate variability. Yet, little is known regarding how climate warming influences the growth of herbaceous plants, particularly in semi-arid sit...
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Reduced sediment transport in the Yellow River due to anthropogenic changes
The sediment load of China’s Yellow River has been declining. Analysis of 60 years of runoff and sediment load data attributes this decline to river engineering, with an increasing role of post-1990s land use ...
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Open AccessRecent ecological transitions in China: greening, browning and influential factors
Ecological conservation and restoration are necessary to mitigate environmental degradation problems. China has taken great efforts in such actions. To understand the ecological transition during 2000–2010 in ...
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How to integrate remotely sensed data and biodiversity for ecosystem assessments at landscape scale
Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning underpins the delivery of all ecosystem services and should be accounted for in all decision-making related to the use of natural resources and areas. However, biodiversi...
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Balancing multiple ecosystem services in conservation priority setting
Conservation priority setting is the critical process of allocating the limited resources available for nature conservation and; safeguarding the sustainability of biodiversity and ecosystem services (ESs). I...
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SAORES: a spatially explicit assessment and optimization tool for regional ecosystem services
The concept of ecosystem services (ES) has become mainstreamed in environmental planning and management recently, and with that various tools for quantifying ecosystem services have emerged. However, designing...
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Managing landscape heterogeneity in different socio-ecological contexts: contrasting cases from central Loess Plateau of China and southern Finland
Landscape transition drives environmental change across the globe. However, landscape and its change are complex with high spatial heterogeneity, which challenges strategic decision-making.
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Carbon Sequestration Function of Check-Dams: A Case Study of the Loess Plateau in China
Check-dams are the most common structures for controlling soil erosion in the Loess Plateau. However, the effect of check-dams on carbon sequestration, along with sediment transport and deposition, has not bee...
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Spatial heterogeneous response of land use and landscape functions to ecological restoration: the case of the Chinese loess hilly region
Ecological restorations over time may have profound effects on ecological and socio-economic systems. However, land-use changes and landscape functions that accompany ecological restorations can have spatial d...
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Check dam sediments: an important indicator of the effects of environmental changes on soil erosion in the Loess Plateau in China
Check dam sediments document the process of soil erosion for a watershed. The main objectives of this research are as follows: first, to determine whether the sediments trapped in check dams can provide useful...
