Urban environments lie at the confluence of social, cultural, and economic activities and
have unique biophysical characteristics due to continued infrastructure development that …

Research on the evolutionary ecology of urban areas reveals how human-induced
evolutionary changes affect biodiversity and essential ecosystem services. In a rapidly …

The local climate zone (LCZ) and land surface temperature (LST) have gained considerable
attention as urbanization continues to increase. However, the study of LSTs lacks a regional …

Despite increasing attention to rising land surface temperatures (LSTs) and other climate
changes caused by urbanization, few studies have considered the characteristics of LST or …

Owing to increasing population densities and impervious surface areas, heat island effects
increasingly dominate urban environments and hinder sustainable development. The urban …

Urbanization experiences different speeds and forms under diverse development stages
across the globe. However, urbanization-induced impacts on long-term surface urban heat …

Reliable quantification of urban heat island (UHI) can contribute to the effective evaluation of
potential heat risk. Traditional methods for the quantification of UHI intensity (UHII) using …

Extreme precipitation events exert increasingly profound effects on public health and
ecosystems under climate change and urbanization. In this study, the nonstationarity and …

Increasingly urban agglomeration, representing a group of cities with a compact spatial
organization and close economic links, can rise surface temperature in a continuous area …

More than half of the total population in China are living in cities. Especially, the people in
highly developed and spatially integrated city clusters, ie, urban agglomerations (UAs), are …