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Record W4417331040 · doi:10.1016/j.crsus.2025.100588

Identifying priority areas for terrestrial ecosystem restoration in China

2025· article· en· W4417331040 on OpenAlex
Chaonan Cheng, Feng Li, Rui Yang

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Bibliographic record

VenueCell Reports Sustainability · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicLand Use and Ecosystem Services
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersNational Major Science and Technology Projects of ChinaNational Science and Technology Major ProjectNational Natural Science Foundation of China
KeywordsRestoration ecologyEcosystemEcosystem servicesBiodiversityAridSocioeconomic statusEcosystem healthAdaptabilityVegetation (pathology)

Abstract

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Global biodiversity loss requires restoration strategies that balance ecological integrity with socioeconomic sustainability. To address Target 2 of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, we conducted a nationwide spatial assessment to identify priority areas for terrestrial ecosystem restoration in China, integrating data on degradation, ecosystem services, and socioeconomic activities. About 40% of terrestrial ecosystems are degraded, affecting service-rich regions that cover 47% of the land, including national parks. Under five SSP-RCP scenarios, conflict zones are defined as areas where ecosystem degradation overlaps with socioeconomic activities, and they are projected to cover 42% of the land by 2030. Restoration priorities include the top 30% of ecosystems, spanning water, grassland, forest, arid land, cropland, and urban areas. These zones align with ecological strategies and retain spatial adaptability under future conditions. Integrating ecological and socioeconomic dimensions, this approach offers a framework for planning restoration in biodiversity-rich countries.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.058
Threshold uncertainty score0.497

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.008
GPT teacher head0.255
Teacher spread0.247 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it