Global forecasts of urban expansion to 2030 and direct impacts on biodiversity and carbon pools
Global forecasts of urban expansion to 2030 and direct impacts on biodiversity and carbon pools
K. Seto,Burak Güneralp,L. Hutyra
2012 · DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1211658109
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 4,474 Citations
TLDR
S spatially explicit probabilistic forecasts of global urban land-cover change are developed and the direct impacts on biodiversity hotspots and tropical carbon biomass are explored to minimize global biodiversity and vegetation carbon losses.