Rapid urban expansion has profound impacts on global biodiversity through habitat
conversion, degradation, fragmentation, and species extinction. However, how future urban …

Despite its small land coverage, urban land and its expansion have exhibited profound
impacts on global environments. Here, we present the scenario projections of global urban …

Globally, urbanization has dramatically changed land cover, causing a rapid growth in
carbon emissions and related risk of climate change. This study estimated city-level land use …

Urban land expansion is one of the most visible, irreversible, and rapid types of land
cover/land use change in contemporary human history, and is a key driver for many …

The replacement of natural lands with urban structures has multiple environmental
consequences, yet little is known about the magnitude and extent of albedo-induced …

Due to the increase in future uncertainty caused by rapid environmental, societal, and
technological change, exploring multiple scenarios has become increasingly important in …

Land use and land cover change (LUCC) simulation models are effective and reproducible
tools for analyzing both the causes and consequences of future landscape dynamics under …

We are currently living in the era of big data. The volume of collected or archived geospatial
data for land use and land cover (LULC) map** including remotely sensed satellite …

Timely and accurate delineation of global urban land is fundamental to the understanding of
global environmental changes. However, most of the contemporary global urban land maps …

Land use and cover change (LUCC) can often threaten urban ecological space and cause
enormous impacts on the ecosystem, and sustainable ecological security patterns (ESPs) …