cultivated land resource, value changes, karst mountain area, remote sensing, land use policy, mountain–basin human–land system, land-use change, land dynamical model with Holling-II type, coupling mechanism, Yuxi City, karst soil erosion, topographical units, RUSLE, geographical detector, influencing factors, poverty alleviation resettlement, ecological environment quality, remote sensing ecological index, karst ecologically fragile areas, karst, watershed, runoff change, climate factors, wavelet analysis, southwest China, normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), gross primary productivity (GPP), land use/land cover (LULC), center of gravity shift model, forest cover, old maps, spatial–temporal changes, forest landscape, transfer matrix, rural settlement, land use, land use transition, rural transformation development, urban–rural construction land, land transformation, temporal and spatial evolution, vegetation dynamics, road construction, landscape patterns, ecological safety, spatiotemporal fusion, high resolution, FSDAF, STDFA, Fit_FC, karst carbon sink, carbon and nitrogen sources, dissolved inorganic carbon isotopes, nitrogen and oxygen isotopes, karst area reservoir, mountainous areas, flatland areas, grid scale, landscape pattern evolution, MT-InSAR, frozen soil deformation, Qinghai–Tibet corridor, roadbed deformation, climate response, horst type, epigene karst system, hypogene branch, cave-in, subsidence doline, ponor with blind valley, spring cave, factors, forest change, Guizhou, Miaoling, karst plateau, trend analysis, geographic detector, Research and information: general, Biology, life sciences, Ecological science, the Biosphere

This reprint encompasses karst ecosystem quality, ecosystem services, climate change, ecological restoration, vegetation dynamics, land management, and the element biogeochemical cycle. These are closely related to land system science, landscape, land–climate interactions, the water–energy–land–food nexus, ecosystem services, and multifunctionality and sustainability. We expect that this reprint will contribute to ecological construction and land use management in karst areas.