Determining the contributions of urbanisation and climate change to NPP variations over the last decade in the Yangtze River Delta, China

Wu, Shishan; Zhou, Shenglü; Chen, Dongxiang; Wei, Zongqiang; Dai, Liang; Li, Xingong

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.10.128

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“…There have been a number of studies that mapped the supply of ecosystem services and estimated their economic values, but the underlying role of the water resource in providing ecosystem services was seldom measured (Kremen, 2005). Knowledge on NPP change and its drivers can be effectively obtained with a combination of time series analysis of remote sensing data and regression analysis, and some studies have attempted to assess the relative contribution of climate change and human activities to the NPP change (Fabricante et al, 2009;Omuto et al, 2010;Wu et al, 2014;Xu et al, 2011).…”

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“…The first approach is to estimate the relative roles of different driving factors in influencing NPP by carrying out scenario simulation and comparing the simulated NPP under different scenarios (Evans and Geerken, 2004;Wu et al, 2014). However, it is difficult to simultaneously analyze the impacts of different driving factors on NPP through scenario simulation (Evans and Geerken, 2004).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Multilevel modeling of NPP change and impacts of water resources in the Lower Heihe River Basin

Yan

Zhan

Jiang

et al. 2015

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Parts A/B/C

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a b s t r a c tNet primary productivity (NPP) lays the foundation for provision of various ecosystem services, and understanding the impacts of potential influencing factors on NPP is of great significance to formulating appropriate management measures to guarantee the sustainable provision of essential ecosystem services. This study analyzed the impacts of potential influencing factors on NPP in the lower Heihe River Basin, a typical arid and semi-arid region in China. Results of decomposition analysis suggested that the water availability played an important role in increasing NPP, with a contribution rate of 44.17%, and it is necessary to carry out some policies that can promote the water use efficiency to increase NPP under the background of climate change and intensified human activities. There are some uncertainties in the results of this study, but these results still can provide valuable reference information for the water resource management to increase the ecosystem service supply in the lower Heihe River Basin.

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Multilevel modeling of NPP change and impacts of water resources in the Lower Heihe River Basin

Yan

Zhan

Jiang

et al. 2015

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Parts A/B/C

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“…Furthermore, per capita peri-urban open space area in cities of the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration in east China was about 80 % less than that of the other cities, indicating that urban agglomeration resulted in greatly decreased rural areas. This posed potential impact on provision of ecosystem services at a regional scale (Liu et al 2010;Wu et al 2014;Xu et al 2014).…”

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Environmental Impacts of China’s Urbanization from 2000 to 2010 and Management Implications

Lan

Crittenden

et al. 2015

Environmental Management

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Rapid urbanization in China during the first decade of the twenty first century has brought about profound environmental changes at citywide and regional scales. In this paper, we present a comprehensive set of indicators and put forward a new evaluation method for measuring environmental impacts of urbanization from 2000 to 2010. We compared these impacts among 286 cities in mainland China and found that the overall quantity of pollutant discharge decreased as cities became more economically developed during the years 2000-2010. However, larger and denser cities, and wealthier cities in the eastern part of China tended to have larger quantities of pollutant discharge, resource consumption, and changes in land use (i.e., expansion of the built environment). The discharge increase occurred despite these cities having increased their investment in pollution control and construction of municipal environmental infrastructure. The negative impact from the intensity of pollutant discharge (i.e., discharge per unit of economic output) was generally less in more developed cities, although this was not always the case. Some cities, such as resource-based cities and old industrial cities, had both larger quantities of pollutant discharge and greater pollution intensity compared to other types of cities, indicating that environmental impacts did not necessarily decrease with increasing urbanization. The results of this study provide a promising basis for decisionmaking to reduce the impacts for different types of cities in the decades to come.

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“…NPP refers to the net accumulation of photosynthetic carbon by plants as a balance between gross primary productivity and ecosystem respiration. Thus, changes in NPP reflect the ecosystem carbon balance [11][12][13][14][15], and its response to global climate change and human activities [16][17][18].…”

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Decreasing Net Primary Productivity in Response to Urbanization in Liaoning Province, China

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Abstract:Regional ecosystems have been greatly affected by the rapid expansion of urban areas. In order to explore the impact of land use change on net primary productivity (NPP) in rapidly developing cities during the current urbanization process, we quantified land use change in Liaoning province between 2000 and 2010 using net primary productivity as an indicator of ecosystem productivity and health. The Carnegie-Ames-Stanford Approach model was used to estimate NPP by region and land use. We used a unit circle-based evaluation model to quantify local urbanization effects on NPP around eight representative cities. The dominant land use types were farmland, woodland and urban, with urban rapidly replacing farmland. Mean annual NPP and total NPP decreased faster from 2005 to 2010 than from 2000 to 2005, reflecting increasing urbanization rates. The eastern, primarily woodland part of Liaoning province had the greatest reduction in NPP, while the western part, which was primarily farmland and grassland, had the lowest reduction.

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Determining the contributions of urbanisation and climate change to NPP variations over the last decade in the Yangtze River Delta, China

Cited by 141 publications

References 40 publications

Multilevel modeling of NPP change and impacts of water resources in the Lower Heihe River Basin

Multilevel modeling of NPP change and impacts of water resources in the Lower Heihe River Basin

Environmental Impacts of China’s Urbanization from 2000 to 2010 and Management Implications

Decreasing Net Primary Productivity in Response to Urbanization in Liaoning Province, China

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