Land degradation in the form of soil erosion and fertility depletion is the major environmental
problem in Ethiopia. However, to curb this problem, soil and water conservation (SWC) …

Trade‐offs are often required for an optimal and sustainable supply of competing services
from forests. A study was conducted in northwest China to explore a practical trade‐off …

Photo-identification of individual snow leopards (Panthera uncia) is the primary data source
for density estimation via capture-recapture statistical methods. To identify individual snow …

The Himalayan region is a fragile high mountain landscape where the population experiences
acute vulnerability within a complex coupled human–natural system due to environmental…

The snow leopard (Panthera uncia) is a cryptic and rare big cat inhabiting Asia’s remote and
harsh elevated areas. Its population has decreased across the globe for various reasons, …

China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), designed to build critical infrastructure and coordinate
economic growth, is the most significant development initiative in modern history. The BRI …

Understory vegetation biomass (UVB) is necessary for forest stability and supply of numerous
forest ecosystem services (FES). However, UVB is often ignored in traditionally managed …

The high-altitude region of Asia is prone to natural resource degradation caused by a variety
of natural and anthropogenic factors that also threaten the habitat of critical top predator …

Camera trapping is the most widely used data collection method for estimating snow leopard
(Panthera uncia) abundance; however, the accuracy of this method is limited by human …

Abstract Information about the variation of carbon density components of larch plantation (LP)
with changing overstory stand structure is lacking, which limits multifunctional forest …