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In this study, MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) land surface temperature (LST) data and enhanced vegetation index (EVI) data were used to analyze the temporal trends of UEs on vegetation and surface urban heat islands (SUHIs) at 10 big cities in Yangtze River Basin (YRB), China during 2001\u20132016. The urban and rural areas in each city were derived from MODIS land cover data and nighttime light data. It was found that the UEs on vegetation and SUHIs were increasingly significant in YRB, China. The \u2206EVI (the UEs on vegetation, urban EVI minus rural EVI) decreased significantly (p &lt; 0.05) in 9, 7 and 5 out of 10 cities for annual, summer and winter, respectively. The annual daytime and nighttime SUHI intensity (SUHII; urban LST minus rural LST) increased significantly (p &lt; 0.05) in 10 and 4 out of 10 cities, respectively. The increasing rate of daytime SUHII and the decreasing rate of \u2206EVI in old urban areas were much less than the whole urban area (0.034 \u00b0C\/year vs. 0.077 \u00b0C\/year for annual daytime SUHII; 0.00209\/year vs. 0.00329\/year for \u2206EVI). The correlation analyses indicated that the annual and summer daytime SUHII were significantly negatively correlated with \u2206EVI in most cities. The decreasing \u2206EVI may also contribute to the increasing nighttime SUHII. In addition, the significant negative correlations (r &lt; \u22120.5, p &lt; 0.1) between inter-annual linear slope of \u2206EVI and SUHII were observed, which suggested that the cities with higher decreasing rates of \u2206EVI may show higher increasing rates of SUHII.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs9060540","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2017,5,30]],"date-time":"2017-05-30T10:26:55Z","timestamp":1496140015000},"page":"540","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":103,"title":["Urbanization Effects on Vegetation and Surface Urban Heat Islands in China\u2019s Yangtze River Basin"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"9","author":[{"given":"Rui","family":"Yao","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Laboratory of Critical Zone Evolution, School of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7783-5725","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Lunche","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Laboratory of Critical Zone Evolution, School of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Xuan","family":"Gui","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Laboratory of Critical Zone Evolution, School of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yukun","family":"Zheng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Laboratory of Critical Zone Evolution, School of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Haoming","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Laboratory of Critical Zone Evolution, School of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Xin","family":"Huang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China"},{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2017,5,30]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"(2017, April 02). 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