Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production: Patterns, Trends, and Planetary Boundaries

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Quantitative Assessment of the Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production (HANPP) in the Coastal Areas of Jiangsu, China

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Appropriation of potential net primary production by cropland in terrestrial ecoregions

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Laying down a path in walking: student teachers’ emerging ecological identities

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Beyond Inputs and Outputs: Opening the Black-Box of Land-Use Intensity

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Agroforestry trade-offs between biomass provision and aboveground carbon sequestration in the alpine Eisenwurzen region, Austria

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Imagining a Prosperous Periphery for the Rural in 2050 and Beyond

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Interdisciplinary Research Maps: A new technique for visualizing research topics

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The Impact of Torrefaction Temperature on the Physical-Chemical Properties of Residual Exotic Fruit (Avocado, Mango, Lychee) Seeds

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Towards a global behavioural model of anthropogenic fire: The spatiotemporal distribution of land-fire systems

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Toward development of ecosystem asset accounts at the national level

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Mapping human appropriation of net primary production in agroecosystems in the Heihe River Basin, China

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Modeling the daytime net primary productivity of maize at the canopy scale based on UAV multispectral imagery and machine learning

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Adaptation on an Agricultural Frontier: Socio-Ecological Profiles of Great Plains Settlement, 1870–1940

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Land Use Change in India (1700–2000) as Examined through the Lens of Human Appropriation of Net Primary Productivity

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Decomposing the global carbon balance pressure index: evidence from 77 countries

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The ecological boundary gap is gradually tightening in China's megacities: Taking Beijing as a case

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Roles of Climate Change and Increasing CO2 in Driving Changes of Net Primary Productivity in China Simulated Using a Dynamic Global Vegetation Model

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Agricultural HANPP Embodied in Consumption: Tracing Pressure on Ecosystems Based on an MRIO Analysis

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Social-ecological niche construction for sustainability: understanding destructive processes and exploring regenerative potentials

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Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production (HANPP) in an Agriculturally-Dominated Watershed, Southeastern USA

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Quantitative Assessment of the Impact of Human Activities on Terrestrial Net Primary Productivity in the Yangtze River Delta

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Estimating the Value of Global Ecosystem Structure and Productivity: A Geographic Information System and Emergy Based Approach

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Quantifying and Mapping Human Appropriation of Net Primary Productivity in Qinghai Grasslands in China

Huang, X., Yang, Y., Chen, C., Zhao, H., Yao, B., Ma, Z., Ma, L., & Zhou, H. (2022) · Agriculture · doi:10.3390/agriculture12040483 · Cited by 17

Human modification of land cover alters net primary productivity, species richness and their relationship

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China’s ecological footprint via biomass import and consumption is increasing

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Influence of Torrefaction Temperature and Climatic Chamber Operation Time on Hydrophobic Properties of Agri-Food Biomass Investigated Using the EMC Method

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Turning Waste to Wealth: Harnessing the Potential of Cassava Peels for Nutritious Animal Feed

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National ecosystem restoration pledges are mismatched with social-ecological enabling conditions

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Tackling biomass scarcity — from vicious to virtuous cycles in sub-Saharan Africa

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General allometric scaling of net primary production agrees with plant adaptive strategy theory and has tipping points

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The Loss of Landscape Ecological Functionality in the Barcelona Province (1956–2009): Could Land-Use History Involve a Legacy for Current Biodiversity?

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Human appropriated net primary productivity as a metric for land use planning: a case study in the US Great Lakes region

Barton, E., Pearsall, D. R., & Currie, W. S. (2020) · Landscape Ecology · doi:10.1007/s10980-020-01017-5 · Cited by 15

Cambio de uso del suelo en la cuenca del río Sabinal, Chiapas, México

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Breaching planetary boundaries: Over half of global land area suffers critical losses in functional biosphere integrity

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Gridded soil surface nitrogen surplus on grazing and agricultural land: Impact of land use maps

Kaltenegger, K., Erb, K., Matej, S., & Winiwarter, W. (2021) · Environmental Research Communications · doi:10.1088/2515-7620/abedd8 · Cited by 9

Ecological restoration largely alleviates livestock grazing pressure in a montane grassland

Qi, X.-L., Xu, H., Teng, R.-Y., Chen, T., & Wang, X. (2024) · Journal of Cleaner Production · doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2024.143044 · Cited by 13

Seeds of Change — Plant Genetic Resources and People’s Livelihoods

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Challenges and opportunities to a sustainable bioenergy utilization in climate mitigation: a global perspective

Singh, J., & Clough, Y. (2024) · Frontiers in Sustainable Energy Policy · doi:10.3389/fsuep.2024.1460370 · Cited by 13

An integrated method to quantify human appropriation of net primary production in grasslands of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

Dai, X., Yang, Y., Zheng, H., Meng, N., Zhu, J., Li, R., Ma, J., Lu, Z., & Li, Z. (2023) · Applied Geography · doi:10.1016/j.apgeog.2023.103055 · Cited by 13

Household energy systems based on biomass: Tracing material flows from source to service in rural Ethiopia

Grabher, H. F., Erb, K., Singh, S. J., & Haberl, H. (2023) · Ecological Economics · doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2023.108057 · Cited by 13

The impact of international trade on environmental vulnerability

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Evaluation of Future Impacts of Climate Change, CO2, and Land Use Cover Change on Global Net Primary Productivity Using a Processed Model

Hu, X., He, Y., Kong, Z., Zhang, J., Yuan, M., Yu, L., Peng, C. H., & Zhu, Q. (2021) · Land · doi:10.3390/land10040365 · Cited by 12

Impact of changes in climate and CO 2 on the carbon storage potential of vegetation under limited water availability using SEIB-DGVM version 3.02

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Global human “predation” on plant growth and biomass

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Landscape change in the Nile Delta during the fourth millennium BC: a new perspective on the Egyptian Predynastic and Protodynastic periods

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Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production

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Modelling ecological scarcity considering the long-term interaction between human and nature in dry agricultural landscapes. Application in Qazvin (Iran)

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A Multi-Perspective Assessment Method with a Dynamic Benchmark for Human Activity Impacts on Alpine Ecosystem under Climate Change

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Understanding the dynamics of human appropriation on ecosystems via an exergy-based net primary productivity indicator: A case study in south-central Chile

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Sustaining the Terrestrial Biosphere in the Anthropocene

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biospheremetrics v1.0.2: an R package to calculate two complementary terrestrial biosphere integrity indicators – human colonization of the biosphere (BioCol) and risk of ecosystem destabilization (EcoRisk)

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Barriers to Native Plantings in Private Residential Yards

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Organic agriculture: impact on the environment and food quality

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The Role of Wildfires in the Interplay of Forest Carbon Stocks and Wood Harvest in the Contiguous United States During the 20th Century

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Spatio-temporal Pattern of Ecosystem Pressure in Countries Along the Belt and Road: Combining Remote Sensing Data and Statistical Data

Du, W., Yan, H., Feng, Z., Zhang, C., & Yang, Y. (2022) · Chinese Geographical Science · doi:10.1007/s11769-022-1298-9 · Cited by 10

Human Appropriated Net Primary Productivity of Complex Mosaic Landscapes

Moore, C., Morel, A., Asare, R. A., Sasu, M. A., Adu‐Bredu, S., & Malhi, Y. S. (2019) · Frontiers in Forests and Global Change · doi:10.3389/ffgc.2019.00038 · Cited by 9

Socioeconomic Value of Savannas

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Neutral genetic diversity follows a latitudinal gradient in the endangered plant Arnica montana L.: a range-wide study

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Mapping ecological resource use and supply-consumption difference in China from 2000 to 2020

Lyu, F., Wu, J., Yu, Z., Di, H. J., & Pan, Y. J. (2024) · Resources Conservation and Recycling · doi:10.1016/j.resconrec.2024.107879 · Cited by 9

Human appropriation of net primary production estimates in the Xinjiang grasslands

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Approaches to building and evaluating sustainable agricultural systems in the member states of the Eurasian Economic Union

Bogoviz, A. V. (2019) · IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science · doi:10.1088/1755-1315/274/1/012002 · Cited by 8

HANPP trajectories for Ethiopia reveal recent agricultural efficiency gains but high grazing intensity

Grabher, H. F. (2020) · Environment Development and Sustainability · doi:10.1007/s10668-020-00814-x · Cited by 8

Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production: From a Planet to a Pixel

Paudel, S., Ovando-Montejo, G. A., & Lant, C. L. (2021) · Sustainability · doi:10.3390/su13158606 · Cited by 11

Socio-ecological predictors of global patterns in human appropriation of net primary production

Jenkins, D. G., Erb, K., & Haberl, H. (2022) · Ecological Indicators · doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2022.109249 · Cited by 7

How to use residual biomass streams in circular food systems to minimise land use or GHG emissions

van Selm, B., Hijbeek, R., van Middelaar, C. E., de Boer, I. J. M., & van Ittersum, M. K. (2024) · Agricultural Systems · doi:10.1016/j.agsy.2024.104185 · Cited by 11

The Energy–Landscape Integrated Analysis (ELIA) of Agroecosystems

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Quantifying the primary biotic resource use by fisheries: A global assessment

Luong, A. D., Dewulf, J. P., & Laender, F. D. (2020) · The Science of The Total Environment · doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.137352 · Cited by 7

Assessing the Effects of Human Activities on Terrestrial Net Primary Productivity of Grasslands in Typical Ecologically Fragile Areas

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Towards a Single Integrative Metric on the Dynamics of Social-Environmental Systems

Chen, J., John, R., Shao, C., Ouyang, Z., Mack, E. A., Henebry, G. M., Dong, G., Allington, G. R. H., Pearson, A. L., Zhao, F., et al. (2021) · Sustainability · doi:10.3390/su132011246 · Cited by 7

A global land-use data cube 1992–2020 based on the Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production

Matej, S., Weidinger, F., Kaufmann, L., Roux, N., Gingrich, S., Haberl, H., Krausmann, F., & Erb, K. (2025) · Scientific Data · doi:10.1038/s41597-025-04788-1 · Cited by 12

Integrating sufficiency in the trade and biodiversity agenda of the European Union

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Poverty alleviation and ecological resource consumption across different agricultural zones: a case study of Inner Mongolia based on HANPP

Lyu, F., Pan, Y. J., Gong, C., & Yu, Z. (2024) · Regional Environmental Change · doi:10.1007/s10113-024-02282-9 · Cited by 6

Exploring potential socio-ecological impacts of changes to the Loliondo Gamed Controlled Area, Northern Tanzania: the case of the pastoral village Ololosokwan

Bartels, L. E., Mayer, A. C. R., & Erb, K. (2016) · Journal of Land Use Science · doi:10.1080/1747423x.2016.1249972 · Cited by 6

Product level dataset on embodied human appropriation of net primary production

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Mapping the intersection of planetary boundaries and environmentally extended input-output analysis: A systematic literature review

León, M. F. G., Bankert, A., Becerra, D., & Abson, D. (2025) · Sustainable Production and Consumption · doi:10.1016/j.spc.2025.04.015 · Cited by 3

Impacts of human appropriation of net primary production on soil retention service: A case study of an ecological-resettlement village in the Tibetan Plateau

Yu, M., Li, Z., Wu, J., Pan, Y. J., Liu, Y., & Zhang, Y. (2025) · Land Use Policy · doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2025.107606 · Cited by 5

Review of Soil Threats and Soil‐Related Ecosystem Services European Maps: Can We Use Them to Study Their Relationships?

Rojas, J. R., Montagne, D., Saby, N., Coblinski, J. A., Pindral, S., Medina‐Roldán, E., Lorenzetti, R., Scammacca, O., Piccini, C., Borůvka, L., et al. (2025) · European Journal of Soil Science · doi:10.1111/ejss.70215 · Cited by 5

Allocation of U.S. Biomass Production to Food, Feed, Fiber, Fuel and Exports

Lant, C. L., Paudel, S., Mueller, K., LARSON, G. O., Ovando-Montejo, G. A., & Givens, J. E. (2023) · Land · doi:10.3390/land12030695 · Cited by 5

Crop mapping and quantitative evaluation of cultivated land use intensity in Shandong Province, 2018–2022

Zhao, J., Sun, X., Wang, M., Li, G., & Hou, X. (2024) · Land Degradation and Development · doi:10.1002/ldr.5247 · Cited by 5

Imagining a Prosperous Periphery for the Rural in 2050 and Beyond

LeVasseur, T. J., Ruuska, T., & Heikkurinen, P. (2021) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-030-68074-9_12-1 · Cited by 5

Pattern changes of ecological product trade in countries along the Belt and Road

Du, W., Yan, H., & Yang, Y. (2023) · Environmental Science and Pollution Research · doi:10.1007/s11356-023-25697-z · Cited by 5

An Explanation of Energy Return on Investment From an Entropy Perspective

Hu, Y., Chen, Y., Tang, S., Feng, L., & Huang, C. (2021) · Frontiers in Energy Research · doi:10.3389/fenrg.2021.633528 · Cited by 5

ASSESSMENT OF THE IMPACT OF LAND USE CHANGES ON NET PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY USING HUMAN APPROPRIATION OF NET PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY IN ANJI, CHINA

Huang, Y., Chen, S., JIANG, H., CHEN, W. J., & Mo, X. (2021) · Applied Ecology and Environmental Research · doi:10.15666/aeer/1906_43314348 · Cited by 4

Returning ecological wealth to nonhuman species through design: the case for ecosystemas

Tomlinson, B., Nardi, B. A., Stokols, D., Raturi, A., & Torrance, A. W. (2022) · Ecology and Society · doi:10.5751/es-13324-270234 · Cited by 5

Mitigating “displaced” land degradation and the risk of spillover through the decommoditization of land products

Chotte, J., & Orr, B. J. (2021) · Land Use Policy · doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2021.105659 · Cited by 5

Trade-driven redistribution of biomass appropriation intensifies ecological inequalities in Eurasian low and middle-income countries

Wang, S., Liang, J., Zhang, X., Liu, K., Feng, K., Hubacek, K., Wenping, Y., & Fang, C. (2026) · 中国科学通报：英文版 · doi:10.1016/j.scib.2026.01.063 · Cited by 4

Thinking about the future of health and cities in the Anthropocene

Hancock, T., & Bezold, C. (2020) · Cities & Health · doi:10.1080/23748834.2020.1765301 · Cited by 5

Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production Related to Livestock Provisioning Ecosystem Services in Southern Patagonia

Peri, P. L., Rosas, Y. M., & Pastur, G. J. M. (2022) · Sustainability · doi:10.3390/su14137617 · Cited by 5

Cultivated Meat and Bioeconomy in Tandem: Unlocking the Sustainability Implications of Transformative Food Supply Chains

Rodrigues, V. P., & Fonseca, M. A. (2024) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-55968-6_17 · Cited by 4

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A framework to assess the comprehensive sustainability of human consumption and production: A case study of the Yangtze River Delta in China

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Of Birds and Bees: Biodiversity and the Colonization of Ecosystems

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Precipitation does not amplify the efficiency of fencing measures for temperate grassland restoration: A case study in northern China based on remote sensing

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Simulation of Carbon Exchange from a Permafrost Peatland in the Great Hing’an Mountains Based on CoupModel

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Social Metabolism and Biodiversity

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Assessing the pressure of agriculture and forestry over carbon flows in South-Central Chile applying the Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production framework

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The impact of domestic material consumption and energy mix on socioeconomic indicators—A global analysis from 1990 to 2022

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Human appropriation of net primary production (HANPP)

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Analyzing the global human appropriation of net primary production — processes, trajectories, implications. An introduction

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Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production

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Quantifying and mapping the human appropriation of net primary production in Earth׳s terrestrial ecosystems

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Natural and socioeconomic determinants of the embodied human appropriation of net primary production and its relation to other resource use indicators

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