Global urban expansion offsets climate-driven increases in terrestrial net primary productivity
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14230%2F19%3A00127776" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14230/19:00127776 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-13462-1" target="_blank" >https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-13462-1</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13462-1" target="_blank" >10.1038/s41467-019-13462-1</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Global urban expansion offsets climate-driven increases in terrestrial net primary productivity
Original language description
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 that global urban areas expanded by an average of 5694 km2 per year between 2000 and 2010. The rapid urban expansion in the past decade has in turn reduced global terrestrial NPP, with a net loss of 22.4 Tg Carbon per year (Tg C year−1). Although small compared to total terrestrial NPP and fossil fuel carbon emissions worldwide, the urbanization-induced decrease in NPP offset 30% of the climate-driven increase (73.6 Tg C year−1) over the same period. Our findings highlight the urgent need for global strategies to address urban expansion, enhance natural carbon sinks, and increase agricultural productivity.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50704 - Environmental sciences (social aspects)
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Nature Communications
ISSN
2041-1723
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
10
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
DE - GERMANY
Number of pages
8
Pages from-to
1-8
UT code for WoS article
000502053800001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85076036778