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The results showed that the NPP mean value increased at a rate of 11.6 g\u2219C\u2219m\u22122\u2219yr\u22121 during the initial three years and decreased at an accelerated rate of 31.0 g\u2219C\u2219m\u22122\u2219yr\u22121 during the final three years, resulting in a total NPP loss of approximately 167 \u00d7 106 g\u2219C. The spatiotemporal of NPP varied obviously in the central area, suburb and exurb of Guangzhou driven by three patterns of weather and LULC changes. By the interactive effects and the weather variation dominated effects, NPP of most areas changed slightly with dynamic index less than 5% of NPP mean value in the central area and the suburb. The LULC change dominated effects caused obvious NPP reduction, by more than 15% of the NPP mean value, which occurred in some areas of the suburb and extended to the exurb with the outward urban sprawl. Importantly, conversion from wood grassland, shrublands and even forests to croplands occupied by urban landscapes proved to be a main process in the conversion from  high-NPP coverage to low-NPP coverage, thereby leading to the rapid degradation of urban carbon stock capacity in urban fringe areas. 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