Nature Communications (Dec 2019)

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

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

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13462-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Robust estimates of either urban expansion worldwide or the effects of such phenomenon on terrestrial net primary productivity (NPP) are lacking. Here the authors used the new dataset of global land use to show that the global urban areas expanded largely between 2000 and 2010, which in turn reduced terrestrial NPP globally.