Urban expansion leads to a significant decline or even a complete loss of essential ecosystem services such as carbon storage

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Evidence profile

Sourced from the stated challenges and future-work section of the source papers, classified as general, drawn from work published between 2025 and 2026, spanning 3 journals. Those papers have been cited 1 times in total.

Supporting evidence — 4 representative gaps

• The cost of urban expansion: modeling past and future impacts on ecosystem carbon storage in the Chang-Zhu-Tan urban agglomeration (2025) · Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems · cited 1× · doi

  Urban expansion leads to a significant decline or even a complete loss of essential ecosystem services such as carbon storage. The study needs to account for the complex ecological processes involved in ecosystem carbon storage. The research requires the integration of multiple models and datasets to simulate future land use patterns and ecosystem carbon storage.

  generalstated challengesevidence 5/5
  Keywords: urban expansion leads significant decline even complete loss
• Spatiotemporal Patterns and Associations of Ecological Quality and Carbon Storage Across Three Major Agricultural Provinces in Central China (2026) · Land · doi

  Integrate field-plot observations, standardized local agronomic assessments, field-based biodiversity observations, dynamic carbon-density data, and independent NPP or carbon-flux products, - Construct more continuous annual time series, with parameter-sensitivity and multiscale analyses used to assess result stability, - Examine the pathways linking land use, ecological quality, vegetation productivity, and carbon storage using data on the timing and spatial extent of policy implementation, together with suitable control areas

  generalfuture-work sectionevidence 5/5
  Keywords: integrate field-plot observations standardized local agronomic assessments field-based
• Carbon Sequestration Dynamics and Ecosystem Service Valuation in the Borana Rangeland, Southern Ethiopia: Linking Ecology and Carbon Finance (2026) · Environmental Management · doi

  The paper identifies challenges related to land use and land cover changes, such as recurrent droughts and increasing livestock densities. It also highlights the need to balance ecological and economic considerations in carbon sequestration efforts. The study notes the importance of accurate land use and land cover classification for reliable estimates of carbon-driven economic value changes.

  generalstated challengesevidence 5/5
  Keywords: paper identifies challenges related land use cover changes
• From Coalfields to Carbon Sinks: Examining the Policy Effects on the Dynamics of Ecosystem Services in the Watersheds of Eastern Kentucky, USA (2026) · Environmental Management · doi

  Enhance carbon estimates by integrating LiDAR data, FIA plots, and species-specific datasets, improving biodiversity and carbon dynamics evaluations. Examine the trade-offs between carbon-based ecosystem services and others to identify ecologically significant regions. Examine the drivers of land-use and land-cover changes, along with socio-economic factors and vulnerability metrics at the census block group level, to support effective watershed prioritization and sustainable management. Predict ecosystem services in the BSRB over the next five years and incorporate water-based ecosystem services mapping in those PWs and NPWs.

  generalfuture-work sectionevidence 5/5
  Keywords: enhance carbon estimates integrating lidar data fia plots

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