This paper estimated the provincial and municipal composite carbon storage variations in terrestrial ecosystems of Guangdong Province caused by the entire flows of land use and land cover type conversion during 1980-2010 using the InVEST model,and assessed the impacts of urban expansion.In addition,a method of linking Cellular Automata(CA)and InVEST model was applied to simulate the impacts of urban land development on carbon storage in the terrestrial ecosystems of Guangdong Province in 2040.The results in...