Ecosystem Services Potential Dynamics of European Capital Metropolitan Areas

These are the Supplementary Dataset of the article "Ecosystem Services Potential is Declining across European Capital Metropolitan Areas". These results rely on the Urban Atlas (UA) data. In our study, we first used the UA data 2018 to compare all ECMA by their current ESP. While the UA change products enabled us to reveal the ESP dynamics across three different periods. Consequently, we could differentiate between metropolitan areas that have faced high rates of ESP reduction and ECMA that have slightly improved. 

The data presented here include the following files:

UAch_12_18_ALL.gpkg: Includes all altered LULC patches within the European capital metropolitan areas.

FINAL_corr_Table.xlsx: Is the cumulative table which feeds the correlation analysis between ESP and ESPD results to socio-economic and other variables.

WB_Urban_Population_Growth_Europe.xlsx: Delivers the population change metrics based on World Bank data.

ESPD__Experts_Matrix_Revision: Including the revision procedure of the expert matrox evaluation criteria.

ESPD_1806_ALL_City_level:  Results of Ecosystem Services Potential Dynamics between 12 year period for 27 European metropolitan regions.

ESPD_1812_ALL_City_level: Results of Ecosystem Services Potential Dynamics between 6 year period for 38 European metropolitan regions.

ESPD_1812_ALL_Patch_level: Detailed table including all changed patches within 38 European metropolitan regions.

ESPD_1812_UD_Pop_correlation: cumulative table incuding the urban expansion ratio and population growth, which feed our correlation analysis in our article.