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This repository contains the code used for the analysis in the paper "Zhang et al. Direct and indirect impacts of urbanization on vegetation growth across the world’s cities" publised in Science Advances

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Global Urbanization-induced Impacts on Vegetation Growth

This repository contains the code used for the analysis in the paper:

Zhang, L., Yang, L., Zohner, C.M., Crowther, T.W., Li, M., Shen, F., Guo, M., Qin, J., Yao, L., Zhou, C., 2022. Direct and indirect impacts of urbanization on vegetation growth across the world’s cities. Science Advances 8, eabo0095. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abo0095

Requirement

  • Python3
  • numpy
  • pandas
  • scipy
  • scikit-learn
  • pymannkendall
  • seaborn
  • matplotlib

Description of files

  • data_collection: The folder contains codes for collecting data sets from Google Earth Engine.
  • generate_vi_ui_relationship: The folder contains codes for generating the relationship between vegetation index (VI) and urbanization intensity (), and calculating the indirect impact .
  • driving_factors_analysis: The folder contains codes for understanding the climatic and anthropogenic effects on the response of vegetation growth to urban environments.
  • plot_maps: The folder contains codes for plot the maps of spatial distributions of and other related factors in worldwide cities across climate zones.

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For questions and more details of our study please contact the author: Lei Zhang 张磊 ([email protected])

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