Land Use Change and Ecosystem Services in Mangaluru, India (1980–2022)

Mangaluru, a coastal city in India, is the focus of this dataset tracking land use and land cover transitions from 1980 to 2022. The data, created by Deeksha Nayak and last updated in March 2026, quantifies changes in hectares for categories like built-up area, wasteland, and agricultural land. It also includes modeled assessments of water yield, carbon sequestration, and soil retention ecosystem services.

Use Cases

• Modeling urban expansion impacts on ecosystem services based on land cover transitions.
• Analyzing trade-offs and synergies between water yield, carbon storage, and soil retention.
• Evaluating the environmental consequences of economic versus ecological policies over time.

Strengths

• Provides a 42-year time series (1980–2022) for longitudinal analysis.
• Quantifies land cover changes in hectares, offering a concrete spatial scale.
• Assesses three specific ecosystem services: water yield, carbon sequestration, and soil retention.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset is very small (5.5 KB), suggesting limited scope or aggregated summary data.

Provenance

Source

figshare, authored by Deeksha Nayak.

Collection Method

Analysis likely utilizes the InVEST (Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Trade-offs) model on land cover data.

Time Range

1980–2022

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-23 17:31:50; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Mangaluru, a coastal city in India.