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Land Use and Ecosystem Services

Last updated July 15, 2026

Rising Stars

Fresh ink, massive impact

Researchers

1
Rohan Simkin
Yale University
2
Hao Xia
University of Copenhagen
3
Ruidong Zhao
Xinjiang University
4
Gao Li-na
Nantong University
5
Franz Schug
University of Wisconsin–Madison
6
Chaoxu Luan
Beijing Normal University
7
Richa Mahtta
Yale University
8
Yangzi Che
Guangdong Hydropower Planning & Design Institute
9
Wenyi Qiao
Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology
10
Ghazaleh Tanoori
Islamic Azad University Central Tehran Branch

Papers

1
3D-GloBFP: the first global three-dimensional building footprint dataset
Earth system science data|2024
155 cit.
2
Machine Learning for Urban Heat Island (UHI) Analysis: Predicting Land Surface Temperature (LST) in Urban Environments
Urban Climate|2024
154 cit.
3
Assessment the urbanization sustainability and its driving factors in Chinese urban agglomerations: An urban land expansion - Urban population dynamics perspective
Journal of Cleaner Production|2024
50 cit.
4
Comparison of various models for multi-scenario simulation of land use/land cover to predict ecosystem service value: A case study of Harbin-Changchun Urban Agglomeration, China
Journal of Cleaner Production|2024
28 cit.
5
Land cover fraction mapping across global biomes with Landsat data, spatially generalized regression models and spectral-temporal metrics
Remote Sensing of Environment|2024
25 cit.
6
Publication in Journal of Urban Planning and Development (2024) [18 citations, W4399969287]
Journal of Urban Planning and Development|2024
18 cit.
7
The Impacts of Urbanization on Carbon Emission Performance: New Evidence from the Yangtze River Delta Urban Agglomeration, China
Land|2024
13 cit.
8
Publication in The Innovation Geoscience (2024) [11 citations, W4394998624]
The Innovation Geoscience|2024
11 cit.
9
Publication in Sustainable Cities and Society (2024) [9 citations, W4392184833]
Sustainable Cities and Society|2024
9 cit.
10
Integrated ecological and environmental spatial soft constraint mechanism: Urban multi-objective land use optimization under multiple scenarios
Journal of Environmental Management|2025
9 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Drafting the new consensus

Researchers

1
Xin Huang
University of Twente
2
Guanghui Jiang
Beijing Normal University
3
Fengsong Pei
Jiangsu Normal University
4
Jie Zeng
China University of Geosciences
5
Tasso Azevedo
Woman's Hospital
6
Wanxu Chen
Chinese Academy of Sciences
7
Ian Leiper
Government of the Northern Territory
8
Wei Kang
University of California, Riverside
9
Aqil Tariq
Wuhan University
10
Yueqing Xu
Sichuan University

Papers

1
Mapping of cropland, cropping patterns and crop types by combining optical remote sensing images with decision tree classifier and random forest
Geo-spatial Information Science|2022
219 cit.
2
MaxEnt Modelling and Impact of Climate Change on Habitat Suitability Variations of Economically Important Chilgoza Pine (Pinus gerardiana Wall.) in South Asia
Forests|2022
191 cit.
3
Urbanization and ecosystem services: The multi-scale spatial spillover effects and spatial variations
Land Use Policy|2022
180 cit.
4
Promoting or inhibiting? New-type urbanization and urban carbon emissions efficiency in China
Cities|2023
137 cit.
5
Spatial Distribution Characteristics and Influencing Factors of Traditional Villages in China
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health|2022
124 cit.
6
Impact of urbanization on ecosystem health in Chinese urban agglomerations
Environmental Impact Assessment Review|2022
124 cit.
7
Impact of urban expansion on the supply-demand balance of ecosystem services: An analysis of prefecture-level cities in China
Environmental Impact Assessment Review|2022
122 cit.
8
Spatio-temporal characteristics and influencing factors of traditional villages in the Yangtze River Basin: a Geodetector model
Heritage Science|2023
122 cit.
9
Urbanisation and ecosystem health in the Middle Reaches of the Yangtze River urban agglomerations, China: A U-curve relationship
Journal of Environmental Management|2022
114 cit.
10
Flash Flood Susceptibility Assessment and Zonation by Integrating Analytic Hierarchy Process and Frequency Ratio Model with Diverse Spatial Data
Water|2022
113 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Wrote the book, still writing it

Researchers

1
Peter H. Verburg
Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
2
Peng Gong
Beijing Institute of Technology
3
Kevin J. Gaston
University of Exeter
4
Jianguo Wu
Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Disease Prevention and Control Center
5
Ranga B. Myneni
Boston University
6
John Townshend
University of Maryland, College Park
7
Xia Li
Nanyang Technological University
8
Yansui Liu
Chinese Academy of Sciences
9
Patrick Hostert
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
10
Éric F. Lambin
UCLouvain

Papers

1
Habitat fragmentation and its lasting impact on Earth’s ecosystems
Science Advances|2015
4.5k cit.
2
The causes of land-use and land-cover change: moving beyond the myths
Global Environmental Change|2001
3.7k cit.
3
Increased plant growth in the northern high latitudes from 1981 to 1991
Nature|1997
3.5k cit.
4
Global land use change, economic globalization, and the looming land scarcity
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|2011
3.1k cit.
5
Proximate Causes and Underlying Driving Forces of Tropical Deforestation
BioScience|2002
3.1k cit.
6
Dynamics of Land-Use and Land-Cover Change in Tropical Regions
Annual Review of Environment and Resources|2003
2.9k cit.
7
China and India lead in greening of the world through land-use management
Nature Sustainability|2019
2.9k cit.
8
Functional diversity: back to basics and looking forward
Ecology Letters|2006
2.5k cit.
9
Global products of vegetation leaf area and fraction absorbed PAR from year one of MODIS data
Remote Sensing of Environment|2002
2k cit.
10
Global land change from 1982 to 2016
Nature|2018
1.9k cit.

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