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Visitors off the trail: Impacts on the dominant plant, bryophyte and lichen species in alpine heath vegetation in sub-arctic Sweden

Monika, Rawat; Jägerbrand, Annika K.; Molau, Ulf; Bai, Yang; Alatalo, Juha M. ( Elsevier , 2021 , Article)

Alpine ecosystems are under increasing pressure due to tourism and recreational activities. When leaving designated trails as is frequently observed, visitors can cause unintentional damage to vegetation. This study ...

Mapping biodiversity conservation priorities for protected areas: A case study in Xishuangbanna Tropical Area, China

Zhongde, Huang; Bai, Yang; Alatalo, Juha M.; Yang, Zhangqian ( Elsevier , 2020 , Article)

Global biodiversity is declining rapidly, posing a severe threat to ecosystem functions and services. Protected Areas (PAs) can be extremely effective in protecting biodiversity, but conservation gaps arise as a result of ...

Impacts of rural tourism-driven land use change on ecosystems services provision in Erhai Lake Basin, China

Li, Jinghui; Bai, Yang; Alatalo, Juha M. ( Elsevier , 2020 , Article)

© 2020 Elsevier B.V. Tourism is an expanding activity worldwide, with vital implications for local economies but also for ecosystem management. Rural tourism in particular drives land use change, which results in ecosystem ...

Spatio-temporal changes in water-related ecosystem services provision and trade-offs with food production

Shiliang, Yang; Bai, Yang; Alatalo, Juha M.; Wang, Huimin; Jiang, Bo; ... more authors ... less authors ( Elsevier , 2021 , Article)

A key challenge for sustainability is protecting water-related ecosystems and the services (WESs) they provide while enhancing food security. Food production usually drives land use change, which results in ecosystem ...

Framework of basin eco-compensation standard valuation for cross-regional water supply – a case study in northern China

Chen, Junyu; Liu, Gang; Wang, Huimin; Alatalo, Juha M.; Yang, Zhangqian; ... more authors ... less authors ( Elsevier , 2020 , Article)

Basin eco-compensation (BEC) helps balance development opportunities and ecological protection. With rising demand for water and severe ecological problems driven by rapid economic growth, an appropriate BEC standard is ...

Scale effects on the relationships between land characteristics and ecosystem services- a case study in Taihu Lake Basin, China

Bai, Yang; Chen, Yuanyuan; Alatalo, Juha M.; Yang, Zhangqian; Jiang, Bo ( Elsevier , 2020 , Article)

© 2020 Elsevier B.V. It is generally recognized that marginal changes in landscape characteristics can influence multiple ecosystem services, but the causal relationships involved are still very unclear due to lack of ...

Land management to reconcile ecosystem services supply and demand mismatches—A case study in Shanghai municipality, China

Jiang, Bo; Bai, Yang; Chen, Junyu; Alatalo, Juha M.; Xu, Xibao; ... more authors ... less authors ( wiley , 2020 , Article)

© 2020 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. City managers need to understand how land use and land cover (LULC) change in an urban landscape can affect future land degradation and conditions for ecosystem services (ESs) supply and ...

Quantifying variations in ecosystem services in altitude-associated vegetation types in a tropical region of China

Fang, Zhou; Bai, Yang; Jiang, Bo; Alatalo, Juha M; Liu, Gang; ... more authors ... less authors ( Elsevier , 2020 , Article)

Natural vegetation is important for ecosystem services (ESs) provision, but is decreasing rapidly due to human-driven land use change, especially rapid expansion of commercial plantations. This is leading to a decrease in ...

Effects of Coupling Water and Fertilizer on Agronomic Traits, Sugar Content and Yield of Sugarcane in Guangxi, China

Wu, Weixiong; Fu, Wuxiang; Alatalo, Juha M.; Ma, Zhanxia; Bai, Yang ( MDPI , 2022 , Article)

This work is a contribution to applied water and fertilizer coupling efforts aiming at increasing crop productivity on sugarcane plantations through the analysis of average cane yields obtained following main agronomic ...

Impacts of environment and human activity on grid-scale land cropping suitability and optimization of planting structure, measured based on the MaxEnt model

Shiliang, Yang; Wang, Huimin; Tong, Jinping; Bai, Yang; Alatalo, Juha M.; ... more authors ... less authors ( Elsevier , 2022 , Article)

Making full use of agricultural resource endowment, determining the planting suitability of areas for different crops according to the environment and human activities, and optimizing planting structure are important ways ...