Global impacts of future urban expansion on terrestrial vertebrate diversity
Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research · +5 more institutions
Abstract
Rapid urban expansion has profound impacts on global biodiversity through habitat conversion, degradation, fragmentation, and species extinction. However, how future urban expansion will affect global biodiversity needs to be better understood. We contribute to filling this knowledge gap by combining spatially explicit projections of urban expansion under shared socioeconomic pathways (SSPs) with datasets on habitat and terrestrial biodiversity (amphibians, mammals, and birds). Overall, future urban expansion will lead to 11-33 million hectares of natural habitat loss by 2100 under the SSP scenarios and will disproportionately cause large natural habitat fragmentation. The urban expansion within the current…
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Authors
12- GLGuangdong LiCorresponding
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
- CFChuanglin Fang
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
- YLYingjie Li
Michigan State University
- ZWZhenbo Wang
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
- SSSiao Sun
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Topics & keywords
- Biodiversity
- Habitat
- Habitat fragmentation
- Species richness
- Geography
- Habitat destruction
- Ecology
- Urban planning
- Sustainable cities and communities