| Variation in ecosystem services across an urbanization gradient: A study of terrestrial carbon stocks from Changzhou, China | |
Tao, Yu1; Li, Feng1 ; Liu, Xusheng2; Zhao, Dan3; Sun, Xiao1; Xu, Lianfang4
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| 2015-12-24 | |
| Source Publication | ECOLOGICAL MODELLING
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| Volume | 318Issue:1Pages:210-216 |
| Abstract | Ecosystem services in urban areas are regarded as multiple environmental benefits fostered by urban rural landscapes. A wide range of ecosystem services have been largely affected by land use and cover change in urban areas, leading to significant variation of ecosystem services, such as terrestrial carbon stocks across a gradient of urbanization. Urban areas are critical for terrestrial carbon dynamics owing to both considerable amount of biomass and soil carbon stored in cities and significant losses in carbon stocks from urban land use and cover change. We used Changzhou, a typical fast-growing city in China, as a case study, and estimated biomass and soil carbon stored in land covers using the InVEST model. We also quantified gradient changes in terrestrial carbon stocks in response to urban land use and cover change along two sample transects as a function of distance from the urban center. We found that carbon densities decreased with increasing intensity of urban development. Gradient transect analyses revealed an overall trend of increasing carbon stocks from the urban center to pen-urban areas as a direct result of land use and cover change driven by policy-oriented urban planning, which led to both infilling of empty areas within the urban center and sprawling of urban land toward pen-urban areas. As recent growth trends continue, the expansion of urban land markedly decreased areas previously dominated by green open spaces, making urban land use and cover change and losses in carbon stocks an increasingly important component of regional carbon dynamics. We proposed measures to mitigate these negative effects of urbanization on carbon stocks both for densely built-up areas and for rapidly urbanizing pen-urban areas. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. |
| Keyword | Carbon Stocks Ecosystem Services Urbanization Gradient Analysis LAnd Use And Cover Change |
| WOS Headings | Science & Technology ; Life Sciences & Biomedicine |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2015.04.027 |
| WOS Keyword | RURAL-URBAN GRADIENT ; UNITED-STATES ; LAND-USE ; STORAGE ; EMISSIONS ; IMPACTS ; REGION ; ENERGY ; SEQUESTRATION ; CONSERVATION |
| Indexed By | SCI |
| Language | 英语 |
| WOS Research Area | Environmental Sciences & Ecology |
| Funding Organization | National Natural Science Foundation of China(71273254 ; National Natural Science Foundation of China(71273254 ; 71033005) ; 71033005) |
| WOS Subject | Ecology |
| WOS ID | WOS:000365369600024 |
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| Document Type | 期刊论文 |
| Identifier | http://ir.rcees.ac.cn/handle/311016/24668 |
| Collection | 城市与区域生态国家重点实验室 |
| Affiliation | 1.Chinese Acad Sci, Ecoenvironm Sci Res Ctr, State Key Lab Urban & Reg Ecol, Beijing 100085, Peoples R China 2.Chinese Acad Forest Inventory & Planning, State Forestry Adm, Beijing 100714, Peoples R China 3.Beijing Municipal Inst City Planning & Design, Beijing 100045, Peoples R China 4.Hohai Univ, Coll Hydrol & Water Resources, Nanjing 210098, Peoples R China |
| First Author Affilication | Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences， Chinese Academy of Sciences |
| Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 | Tao, Yu,Li, Feng,Liu, Xusheng,et al. Variation in ecosystem services across an urbanization gradient: A study of terrestrial carbon stocks from Changzhou, China[J]. ECOLOGICAL MODELLING,2015,318(1):210-216. |
| APA | Tao, Yu,Li, Feng,Liu, Xusheng,Zhao, Dan,Sun, Xiao,&Xu, Lianfang.(2015).Variation in ecosystem services across an urbanization gradient: A study of terrestrial carbon stocks from Changzhou, China.ECOLOGICAL MODELLING,318(1),210-216. |
| MLA | Tao, Yu,et al."Variation in ecosystem services across an urbanization gradient: A study of terrestrial carbon stocks from Changzhou, China".ECOLOGICAL MODELLING 318.1(2015):210-216. |
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