A Review on Landscape Factors for Biodiversity Performance Enhancement in Urban Parks

Diversity, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 17(4), P. 262 - 262

Published: April 7, 2025

Urbanization significantly reduced natural habitats and biodiversity, creating challenges for sustainable urban development. Urban parks, as essential green spaces, help mitigate these impacts by promoting biodiversity enhancing resilience. This review synthesizes current knowledge on landscape factors that influence in emphasizing how parks contribute to conservation A comprehensive literature search identified key affect categorized into five groups: park size shape, vegetation composition, artificial components, patterns, surrounding land use. The findings reveal larger areas, simplified boundaries, diverse structures, human interference, improved habitat connectivity are crucial boosting biodiversity. also suggests practical design strategies, such space networks preserving old trees, foster parks. Overall, this provides valuable insights planners designers aiming create resilient, biodiversity-rich spaces support

Language: Английский

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Distance Decay of Urban Park Visitation: Roles of Personal Characteristics and Visitation Patterns

Forests, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 15(9), P. 1589 - 1589

Published: Sept. 10, 2024

Distance decay of urban park visitation (e.g., number and frequency) has been widely acknowledged is increasingly integrated into planning management considering spatial accessibility service equity. However, thorough understandings especially concerning the variations among visitors with different personal characteristics patterns are still scarce. Taking Changsha, China as an example, we collected data on distance (i.e., between parks visitor’s homes) frequency 2535 visitors, modeled density frequency, investigated their patterns. The results show that: (1) median was 1.3 km 24 times per season. (2) Both showed clear can be effectively using common functions power function, exponential logarithmic function). (3) Visitors’ gender age) duration time, transportation modes, purposes) significantly impact distance, rate decay). These findings extend our understanding which help better management.

Language: Английский

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More fruits, more birds? How plant traits attract birds feeding in urban green spaces during winter

Urban forestry & urban greening, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 107, P. 128748 - 128748

Published: Feb. 26, 2025

Language: Английский

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Distribution of Bird Communities and Habitat Corridor Composition Shaped by Environmental Factors in Urbanized Landscapes: A Case Study in Beijing, China

Forests, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 16(1), P. 1 - 1

Published: Dec. 24, 2024

Urban biodiversity is crucial for ecological security, balance, and important fostering awareness on human-nature interconnectedness among the public. The diversity of birds, as an urban ecosystem indicator, reflects services impacted by development. To explore impacts urbanization bird diversity, stratified to songbirds, terrestrial climbers, swimming wading raptors, we specifically investigated existing potential distributions selected species, analyzed different contributions environmental factors, compared these with conservation policies. We used records from China Birdwatching Record Center (over 1400 species birds querying) remotely-sensed landcover data, based MaxEnt model, analyze spatial distribution characteristics habitat corridors throughout Beijing. results showed that: (1) Songbirds were predominantly concentrated in water areas areas. Wading raptors gathered forest-covered areas, near wetlands farmland suburban Projections indicated that raptor Common Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) a notable shift toward cores. (2) Among Gray-headed Pygmy Woodpecker (Dendrocopos canicapillus) occupied highest proportion high-quality habitats (10.34%), contrasting representative songbird Blackbird (Turdus merula) at 1.38%, which demonstrated adaptability environments. Critical shrub forests, supporting connectivity. Proximity bodies was critical wading, swimming, whereas songbirds more affected artificial lighting. (3) “urban park rings” policy has effectively enhanced quality connectivity, promoting resilience. This study improves our understanding how communities adapt terms movement corridors, provides useful information formulating strategies.

Language: Английский

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Continuous forests and non-IBA forest patches provide a safe haven for the tropical bird community in highly fragmented urban landscapes

Biodiversity and Conservation, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Dec. 28, 2024

Language: Английский

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