Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability

Publications

• APPLIED GEOGRAPHY -- The Telecoupling GeoApp: A Web-GIS application to systematically analyze telecouplings and sustainable development

  Published on May 16, 2018
  To operationalize the framework, we have developed the Telecoupling GeoApp, a new web-based component of the Telecoupling Toolbox that provides researchers and practitioners with a useful platform to address globally important issues.

• PNAS -- Importing food damages domestic environment: Evidence from global soybean trade

  Published on May 9, 2018
  Our study shows that international food trade can also lead to environmental pollution in importing countries.

• Spillover systems in a telecoupled Anthropocene: typology, methods, and governance for global sustainability

  Published on May 9, 2018
  The world has become increasingly telecoupled through distant flows of information, energy, people, organisms, goods, and matter

• Global cropping intensity gaps: Increasing food production without cropland expansion

  Published on March 28, 2018
  To feed the world’s growing population, more food needs to be produced using currently available cropland

• Revealing pathways from payments for ecosystem services to socioeconomic outcomes

  Published on March 22, 2018
  Payments for ecosystem services (PES) programs have been widely implemented as a promising tool to conserve ecosystems while facilitating socioeconomic development

• Interregional flows of ecosystem services: Concepts, typology and four cases

  Published on February 21, 2018
  Conserving and managing global natural capital requires an understanding of the complexity of flows of ecosystem services across geographic boundaries

• Cropping System Conversion led to Organic Carbon Change in China's Mollisols Regions

  Published on January 28, 2018
  Land use change driven by diet, globalization, and technology advancement have greatly influenced agricultural production and environment in the mollisols region of China

• Uncertainty of future projections of species distributions in mountainous regions

  Published on January 22, 2018
  Multiple factors introduce uncertainty into projections of species distributions under climate change. The uncertainty introduced by the choice of baseline climate information

• Effects of grain size and niche breadth on species distribution modeling

  Published on December 27, 2017
  This study investigate the effect of grain size and niche breadth on SDMs.

• Peruvian anchoveta as a telecoupled fisheries system

  Published on December 21, 2017
  As economic and ideational globalization accelerate, fisheries are becoming more globally connected via movements of fish products and fisheries finances, information, and stakeholders throughout the world.

• Evaluating Landscape Options for Corridor Restoration between Giant Panda Reserves

  Published on December 21, 2017
  Our study suggested that in this landscape, automobile tunnels are the best means to remove current barriers to giant panda movements caused by anthropogenic interferences.

• The Recovery Processes of Giant Panda Habitat in Wolong Nature Reserve, Sichuan China (Chinese)

  Published on December 6, 2017
  According to this study, the artificially planted habitat was neither an efficient approach for the bamboo resources recovery nor for the vegetation community recovery.

• ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY -- Integration across a metacoupled world

  Published on November 26, 2017
  This paper presents an integrated framework of metacoupling: human-nature interactions within a system (intracoupling), between distant systems (telecoupling), and between adjacent systems (pericoupling).

• Spatio-temporal reconstruction of missing forest microclimate measurements

  Published on October 19, 2017
  Scientists and land managers are increasingly monitoring forest microclimate environments to better understand ecosystem processes, such as carbon sequestration and the population dynamics of species.

• ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY -- Telecoupling Toolbox: spatially explicit tools for studying telecoupled human and natural systems

  Published on October 19, 2017
  We introduce the Telecoupling Toolbox, the first set of tools developed to map and identify the five major interrelated components of the telecoupling framework: systems, flows, agents, causes, and effects.

• Exploring spatially variable relationships between NDVI and climatic factors in a transition zone using geographically weighted regression

  Published on October 18, 2017
  Taking a look at "Theoretical and Applied Climatology".

• The distance decay of similarity in climate variation and vegetation dynamics

  Published on October 18, 2017
  This study aimed to illustrate the strength of the distance-decay relationship in variation of climate and vegetation, and to quantify the relationship.

• Nonlinear features and complexity patterns of vegetation dynamics in the transition zone of North China

  Published on October 18, 2017
  In this study, we adopted ROA to investigate the spatial patterns of determinism of the vegetation dynamics ecological-geographical transition zones in North China, especially the differences between transition zone and the surrounding areas.

• Accounting for ecosystem services in compensating for the costs of effective conservation in protected areas

  Published on October 3, 2017
  Protected areas are a major approach for conserving ecosystem services globally. Effective conservation in protected areas must integrate human livelihoods into the design and management of conservation.

• Reassessing the conservation status of the giant panda using remote sensing

  Published on September 26, 2017
  The conservation status of the iconic giant panda is a barometer of global conservation efforts.