China's plant diversity: risks and conservation strategies（2020）
Human activities and land use have brought about unprecedented pressures and stresses on the natural environment, leading to the extinction of species in their thousands. In order to achieve the ambitious SDG Target 15.5 (i.e. to take urgent and significant action to reduce the degradation of nat...
Processes of aeolian desertification in the semi-arid region and its peripheries in northern China and review of control outcomes（2020）
Aeolian desertification is a type of desertification induced by the actions of wind-blown sand (Wang et al., 2015). It occurs and develops mainly in the semi-arid agro-pastoral ecotones and pastoral zones of northern China, which are also the main areas where the reversal of aeolian desertificati...
Dynamics between large-scale greening and soil and water conservation on the Loess Plateau and sedimentation of the Yellow River（2020）
Since 2000, thanks to the reversion of farmland to forest and grass as well as other soil erosion control measures, the ecological environment of China's Loess Plateau has undergone a profound transformation, with large-scale, significant improvements in its vegetation. As one of the few regions ...
China's LDN progress tracking and its contribution to global LDN（2020）
The vision of SDG Target 15.3, "to achieve a land degradation-neutral world", is one of the key targets of the SDGs (United Nations, 2015). However, the definition of land degradation was a matter of considerable debate at one point, primarily as a result of divergence of opinion over the process...
Applying three global conditions framework to the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity in China(2020)
SDG 15 emphasizes the importance of protecting, restoring and promoting the sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems to the conservation of natural habitats and biodiversity (United Nations, 2015). Conservation actions are constrained by the socioeconomic status of different areas. Therefore, th...