Global urbanization indirectly ‘enhances’ the carbon sequestration capacity of urban vegetation

作者：Jieming Kang, Baolei Zhang, Qian Zhang, Chunlin Li, Jun Ma, Jiabo Yin, Kailiang Yu, Yuanman Hu, Elie Bou‐Zeid · 发表于：Geography and sustainability · 年份：2025 · DOI：10.1016/j.geosus.2025.100268 · 被引用次数：27 · 研究领域：Land Use and Ecosystem Services、Urban Green Space and Health、Urban Heat Island Mitigation

• Globally, urbanization’s direct impact on NEP is universally negative. • Globally, urbanization’s indirect impact on NEP is positive in 88 % of cities. • Urbanization’s indirect impact is strongest in hydrothermally constrained areas. • Anthropogenic factors dominate the indirect impacts of urbanization on NEP. • Urbanization’s indirect impact on NEP is related to the level of urban development. Urbanization radically alters the climatic environment and landscape patterns of urban areas, but its impact on the carbon sequestration capacity of vegetation remains uncertain. Given the limitations of current small-scale ground-based in situ experiments, the response of vegetation carbon sequestration capacity to urbanization and the factors influencing it remain unclear at the global scale. Using multisource remote sensing data, we quantified and differentiated the direct and indirect impacts of urbanization on the carbon sequestration capacity of vegetation in 508 large urban areas globally from 2000 to 2020. The results revealed that the direct impacts of urbanization were generally negative. However, 446 cities experienced an indirect enhancement in vegetation carbon sequestration capacity during urbanization, averaging 19.6 % globally and offsetting 14.7 % of the direct loss due to urbanization. These positive indirect effects were most pronounced in environments with limited hydrothermal conditions and increased most in densely populated temperate and cold regions. Furtherm...