Understanding the drivers of woody plant diversity in urban parks in ...

Biodiversity in the City: Fundamental Questions for Understanding ...

At the landscape scale, the heterogeneity of green spaces within urban areas increases plant species diversity (Kowarik 2011), and the presence ...

Integrating biodiversity considerations into urban golf courses

There was a significant relationship between climate and woody cover, species richness and percentage native plants but not species diversity. There was no ...

(PDF) Species richness in urban parks and its drivers: A review of ...

Global research shows that the abundance and richness of fauna in urban environments depends, to a large extent, on the spatial patterning of different patches ...

Proportion of non-native plants in urban parks correlates with ...

Here, we evaluate the relationship between traits of 486 ornamental woody species from 46 Spanish urban parks and climatic and socioeconomic ...

23. The extent of alien plant invasion and numbers of invasive species are increasing,. 24 exacerbating invasion impacts. Effective and ...

Urban park layers: Spatial variation in plant community structure

Beta diversity values between the layers are very close, and beta diversity is practically equal for tree stand and herbaceous layer. Thus, we can assume that ...

Anthropogenic Drivers of Small Island Effects in Urban Remnant ...

According to stepwise and generalized linear regression mode analysis we found SIE detected in only woody plants, with area threshold 6.38 ha ...

Landscape Online Relationship between parameters of public parks ...

To maintain the richness and diversity of greenery, it is necessary to understand the factors and mechanisms that influence vegetation. The purpose of this ...

Multi-scale factors influencing the characteristics of avian ... - Nature

Park size was crucial for total species abundance, but foliage height diversity was the most important factor influencing avian species diversity.

Why Urban Parks & Wildlife Corridors Are a Legitimate Solution

One of the mechanisms of connectivity is increased gene flow. Isolated populations tend to have lower genetic diversity than well connected ones, ultimately ...

Differential organization of taxonomic and functional diversity ... - jstor

diversity in an urban woody plant metacommunity. Christopher M. Swan, Anna Johnson & David J. Nowak. Keywords. Functional traits; Metacommunity; Urban.

Urban planning and landscape greening management drive plant ...

Although there is growing research on urban plant diversity in temperate regions, little is known about the distribution patterns and driving ...

Nonnative, Noninvasive Woody Species Can Enhance Urban ...

2010), there is a perception that biodiversity loss is due to nonnative species forcing native species into extinction. In preamble to its biodiversity law for ...

Restoration in Urban Parks: Long-term Tests of Forest Management ...

Results supported the hypothesis that removing invasive woody vines and shrubs followed by planting native trees did significantly change the trajectories of ...

Negative relationship between woody species density and ... - HAL

Knowing plant diversity and vegetation configuration that underpin urban ... analysis of factors determining intra‐urban biodiversity variation.

Visitors' awareness of diversity and abundance of trees in urban ...

The purpose of this study, after revealing the richness and composition of woody plant species in a historical city grove, is to understand whether or not the ...

Comparing Urban Parks' Woody Plant Diversity in Seven Different ...

In methodology, we recorded the plants' families and species and calcu- lated the diversity and dissimilarity values of the selected urban parks ...

A global analysis of the impacts of urbanization on bird and plant ...

In order to understand the factors that drive the density of species in cities, we examined anthropogenic and non-anthropogenic (environmental) ...

Using GIS and the Diversity Indices: A Combined Approach to ...

Woody plant diversity has significant value in urban green systems. The main purpose of this study was to determine the biodiversity values and the potential of ...

β-Diversity of Functional Groups of Woody Plants in a Tropical Dry ...

Our results show that considering different plant functional groups reveals important differences in both α- and β-diversity patterns and correlates that are ...