Habitat Assessment and Conservation Strategies

Dear Colleagues,

The loss of species habitat is a key factor in the reduction of species and biodiversity and, under the dual impacts of climate change and human activities, the changing ecological and environmental factors vary across geographical regions and different time periods. These changes make the temporal and spatial changes to species’ habitats complex and diverse, which has highly significant impacts on biodiversity conservation. Therefore, it is very urgent to strengthen research on habitat protection and dynamic assessment, which is of great significance to developing a precise understanding of the living of environment species and how it changes, as well as to enacting out biodiversity conservation in a scientific manner. This special Issue focuses mainly on the “ecological observation, simulation, and evaluation of habitats, and paths toward habitat protection, management, and restoration”. More specifically, studies including, but not limited to, the following topics are welcome:

• Habitat scope identification, protection network, and corridor construction;
• Habitat ecological observation, quality assessment, and dynamic simulation;
• Habitat risk judgment, stress dentification, and scenario prediction;
• Habitat protection, restoration, and management;
• Ecosystem protection and climate change responses;
• Ecological risk monitoring and early warning;
• Other topics of conservation and management.

Dr. Peng Hou
Prof. Dr. Wei Li
Guest Editors

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• habitat monitoring
• habitat assessment
• habitat protection
• ecosystem assessment
• ecosystem protection
• nature reserves
• ecosystem management
• climate change