Global urban expansion offsets climate-driven increases in terrestrial net primary productivity

Liu, Xiaoping; Pei, Fengsong; Wen, Youyue; Li, Xia; Wang, Shaojian; Wu, Changjiang; Cai, Yiling; Wu, Jianguo; Chen, Jun; Feng, Kuishuang; Liu, Junguo; Hubacek, Klaus; J. Davis, Steven; Yuan, Wenping; Yu, Le; Liu, Zhu

doi:10.1038/s41467-019-13462-1

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Global urban expansion offsets climate-driven increases in terrestrial net primary productivity

Published in Nature Communications • Dec 5, 2019

Authors:

Xiaoping Liu

Fengsong Pei

Youyue Wen

Abstract

Abstract The global urbanization rate is accelerating; however, data limitations have far prevented robust estimations of either global urban expansion or its effects on terrestrial net primary productivity (NPP). Here, using a high resolution dataset of global land use/cover (GlobeLand30), we show ...

Subject

Primary production

Urbanization

Environmental science

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