Factors influencing ecosystem services in the Pearl River Delta, China: Spatiotemporal differentiation and varying importance

Understanding the influence mechanism of ecosystem services will provide useful guides for practical ecological management. However, existing findings of the key factors affecting ecosystem services have failed to identify the level of importance of individual factors and have not considered their temporal and spatial heterogeneity. This study employed the random forest model and a geographically and temporally weighted regression model (GTWR)...