The Effects of Urbanization on Net Primary Productivity in Southeastern China.pdfVIP

Environmental Management (2010) 46:404–410 DOI 10.1007/s00267-010-9542-y The Effects of Urbanization on Net Primary Productivity in Southeastern China Dengsheng Lu • Xiaofeng Xu • Hanqin Tian • Emilio Moran • Maosheng Zhao • Steven Running Received: 8 October 2009 / Accepted: 26 July 2010 / Published online: 12 August 2010 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010 Abstract Net primary productivity (NPP) is one of the negative correlation with NPP in Southeastern China, but major ecosystem products on which human societies rely the outcomes were nonlinear when population or GDP heavily. However, rapid urban sprawl and its associated reached certain thresholds. dense population and economic conditions have generated great pressure on natural resources, food security, and Keywords Human settlement Population Gross environments. It is valuable to understand how urban domestic product Net primary productivity Multiple expansion and associated demographic and economic regression analysis Southeastern China conditions affect ecosystem functions. This research con- ducted a case study in Southeastern China to examine the impacts of urban expansion and demographic and eco- Introduction nomic conditions on NPP. The data sources used in research include human settlement developed through a Urbanization is a process associated with the redistribution combination of MODIS, DMSP-OLS and Landsat ETM? of populations from rural to urban settlements; that is, the images, the annual NPP from MODIS, and the population processes of population increase in urban regions associated and gross domestic product (GDP) from the 2000 census with settlement increases. It assumes migration of people to data.