

A review of the relationships between human population density and biodiversity. Scale dependence of the correlation between human population presence and vertebrate and plant species richness. Global forecasts of urban expansion to 2030 and direct impacts on biodiversity and carbon pools.

The Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Summary for Policy Makers (IPBES, 2019). Global habitat loss and extinction risk of terrestrial vertebrates under future land-use-change scenarios. Declining resilience of ecosystem functions under biodiversity loss. A standard lexicon for biodiversity conservation: unified classifications of threats and actions. Global patterns of terrestrial vertebrate diversity and conservation. Conservation biogeography of the Sahara‐Sahel: additional protected areas are needed to secure unique biodiversity. Ecology of Desert Systems (Academic Press, 2002).īrito, J. Projecting the impacts of urban expansion on simultaneous losses of ecosystem services: a case study in Beijing, China. Quantifying and mapping multiple ecosystem services change in West Africa. Structure and functioning of dryland ecosystems in a changing world. Exploring Land-use Change in a Globalised World (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). in Climate Change and Land (eds Shukla, P. Urban effects, distance, and protected areas in an urbanizing world.

Developing China’s Ecological Redline Policy using ecosystem services assessments for land use planning. Model development for the assessment of terrestrial and aquatic habitat quality in conservation planning. Minnesota, The Nature Conservancy and World Wildlife Fund, 2015). InVEST 3.2.0 User’s Guide (The Natural Capital Project, Stanford Univ., Univ. Direct and indirect loss of natural area from urban expansion. Urbanization, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Challenges and Opportunities (Springer, 2013). The implications of current and future urbanization for global protected areas and biodiversity conservation. Futures of global urban expansion: uncertainties and implications for biodiversity conservation. High-spatiotemporal-resolution mapping of global urban change from 1985 to 2015. Research gaps in knowledge of the impact of urban growth on biodiversity. Trends in urban land expansion, density, and land transitions from 1970 to 2010: a global synthesis. Detecting global urban expansion over the last three decades using a fully convolutional network. The Global-DEP conceptual framework - research on dryland ecosystems to promote sustainability. Dryland climate change: recent progress and challenges. Our findings suggest that strategic management is imperative to mitigate the substantial impacts of dryland urban expansion on biodiversity.Įcosystems and Human Well-being: Synthesis (Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, 2005). By considering the coincidence of habitat-quality loss and threatened species ranges, we found that, globally, nearly 60% of threatened species were affected by such indirect impacts of dryland urban expansion. We found that although urban expansion from 1992 to 2016 resulted in an average 0.8% loss of dryland habitat quality, the indirect impacts were 10–15 times greater. We define indirect impacts as proximate impacts within 10 km around the expanded urban land footprint. Direct impacts are conversions of natural habitats to urban land. Here, we quantify at multiple scales the loss of habitat quality directly and indirectly caused by dryland urban expansion. Yet, few studies have comprehensively investigated impacts of urban expansion on natural dryland habitats globally even though these cover 40% of global land area and provide habitats for 28% of endangered species. Urban regions across the world have expanded rapidly in recent decades, affecting fragile natural habitats, including in drylands, and threatening the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goal 15, ‘life on land’.
