Zhao_Sander_2018

Zhao C, Sander HA (2018) Assessing the sensitivity of urban ecosystem service maps to input spatial data resolution and method choice. Landscape and Urban Planning 175:11–22. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2018.03.007

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Keywords: carbon storage, mapping, validation, methods

Primary ES data are rarely available, meaning studies often map secondary land use and land cover proxies. Urban ES is a special case because urban areas are so spatially heterogeneity that the wrong data could lead to high mapping error. All models underestimated carbon storage – correlations varied across urbanization levels. Overall, LUC models had different spatial distributions of C storage than what was actually observed and this effect increases with increased landscape htereogeneity. Coarse-scale LUC data performed worse than fine-scale LUC data.