As rates of urbanization and climatic change soar, decision-makers are increasingly
challenged to provide innovative solutions that simultaneously address climate change …

Highlights•High habitat quality was used as “sources” to construct ecological corridors.•The
impact of urban expansion on habitat quality is heterogeneous.•Proposing ecological …

With the accelerated rate of urbanization, reasonable identification of urban functional zones
has been increasingly important to urban development. In this study, we used …

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 …

Urban growth boundaries (UGBs) have been commonly regarded as a useful tool for
controlling urban sprawl. There is a need to create models that can establish plausible …

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 …

Abstract Changes in land use in an agro-pastoral region affect the delivery of ecosystem
services. The trajectory of future land use change and its impacts on human society are not …

Global land-use and land-cover change (LUCC) data are crucial for modeling a wide range
of environmental conditions. So far, access to high-resolution LUCC products at a global …

Urban land use information plays an essential role in a wide variety of urban planning and
environmental monitoring processes. During the past few decades, with the rapid …

Urban land-use change is affected by urban planning and government decision-making.
Previous urban simulation methods focused only on planning constraints that prevent urban …