Terrestrial ecosystems operate through tightly coupled interactions among soil systems, vegetation, hydrological processes, and biogeochemical cycles. Forests, agricultural landscapes, and natural resource systems collectively shape ecosystem resilience, productivity, and biosphere stability. This mini review synthesizes recent conceptual and empirical advances across forestry, soil science, ecosystem science, biogeochemistry, ecohydrology, and ecotoxicology, with an emphasis on system-level interactions rather than isolated components. By adopting an integrative lens, the article highlights how land management practices influence nutrient cycling, water regulation, pollutant dynamics, and long-term ecological sustainability. The review further discusses emerging challenges posed by environmental stressors and outlines future research directions needed to support resilient biosphere–human interactions. Conceptual Framing of Integrated Terrestrial Systems
Forest vegetation dynamics are changing under climate change, with important implications for biodiversity conservation, ecosystem services, carbon cycling, and livelihoods. Vegetation regulates terrestrial carbon storage and biophysical feedbacks, but its responses to warming, changing precipitation, rising atmospheri...
N. Bhol, Umesh Sharma, Subhasmita Parida et al.· Geographies· 0 citations
Grassland science has traditionally treated water as a local constraint, assessed through precipitation, soil moisture, or evapotranspiration at site to regional scales. Emerging insights from Earth system science challenge this view, revealing freshwater cycling as a connected, planetary‐scale process shaped by land...
K. Javed, Cory Matthew, Humayun Javed· Grassland Research· 1 citation
This STAP paper examines how the global hydrological cycle connects climate, biodiversity, land, ecosystems, and human well-being across scales, and argues that water should no longer be managed primarily through fragmented, blue-water approaches focused on rivers, lakes, and aquifers alone. The paper highlights the gr...
Climate change is one of the most significant environmental challenges of the twenty-first
century, threatening the stability, resilience, and sustainability of ecosystems worldwide. Rising
global temperatures, altered precipitation patterns, prolonged droughts, floods, wildfires, storms,
and sea-level rise significant...
Safura Valiyeva, Elnara Isayeva· Nature & Science· 0 citations
Research in marine ecosystem ecology increasingly integrates biodiversity status and trends, ecosystem functioning, and human pressures. Understanding how marine biodiversity supports ecosystem functioning remains central to the field, while growing concern over ecosystem condition has shifted attention towards relatio...
S. Katsanevakis, Heliana Teixeira· Frontiers in Marine Science· 0 citations
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