Quantifying the speed, growth modes, and landscape pattern changes of urbanization: A hierarchical patch dynamics approach

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• patch dynamics 100%
• urbanization 55%
• speed 43%
• landscape structure 13%
• urban landscape 12%
• wax 12%
• urban growth 12%
• coalescence 11%
• county 10%
• connectivity 9%
• transform 8%
• biodiversity 8%
• river 5%
• analysis 2%

Agriculture & Biology

• urbanization 77%
• Yangtze River 11%
• space and time 9%
• waxes 8%
• biodiversity 6%
• China 5%

Social Sciences

• urbanization 63%
• biodiversity 8%
• river 8%
• research planning 6%
• time 5%
• China 5%