Rapid urbanization has profoundly impacted social and environmental systems. China is the
world's largest developing country. Projecting future urban expansion in China is critical to …

Rapid urban expansion has seriously threatened ecological security and the natural
environment on a global scale, thus, the simulation of dynamic urban expansion is a hot …

Land use and land cover (LULC) models are essential for analyzing LULC change and
predicting land use requirements and are valuable for guiding reasonable land use …

Landscape transformations in rapidly urbanizing Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao
(GHKM) regions of South China represent the most complex and dynamic processes …

Revealing multi-scale cascading change in land use is crucial for developing urbanization
strategies and ecological restoration in China. This study used an integrated assessment of …

Despite its small land coverage, urban land and its expansion have exhibited profound
impacts on global environments. Here, we present the scenario projections of global urban …

In the past decades, China has undergone dramatic land use/land cover (LULC) changes.
Such changes are expected to continue and profoundly affect our environment. To navigate …

Rapid expansion of urban land areas in the past few decades has exerted great pressure on
regional environment, and simulating urban land dynamics is of great significance for …

Rapid global urban expansion necessitates accurate simulations to comprehend future
growth patterns and their implications. Cellular automata, such as the widely used patch …

Cellular automata (CA) are bottom-up models that have been widely applied to simulate
urban growth and project future urban scenarios. Conventional CA models commonly use a …