Greening up the City with Native Species: Challenges and Solutions

Diversity, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 17(1), P. 56 - 56

Published: Jan. 16, 2025

Urban green spaces provide many benefits, including to human wellbeing, ecosystem services, and urban wildlife. Thus, there are reasons up spaces, especially by using native species. Furthermore, suited enhancing biodiversity without negatively impacting food or fiber production. Municipalities private landowners invest substantially in landscaping its maintenance. However, much of that outlay supports non-native plants may be less adapted local conditions such as rainfall patterns temperature ranges, thus having greater resource requirements, well being supportive wildlife possessing a potential becoming invasive. Here, we explore ways increase the use plant species settings reduce need for watering chemical application, enhance support species, risk invasion ex-urban habitats. We identify three main impediments: perception aesthetically pleasing, availability nursery industry, willingness policymakers take measures. propose methods address all three, providing successful examples from number US localities case study demonstrates what drivers might exist actions remain taken.

Language: Английский

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Clarifying the Taxonomic Relationships of Tulipa iliensis and T. thianschanica Based on Multiple Evidences of Phenotypic, Karyotype, Molecular, and Chloroplast Genomes

Diversity, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 17(3), P. 219 - 219

Published: March 20, 2025

In China, the genus Tulipa L. has been identified as a national second-class protected plant. Due to complex evolutionary and genetic backgrounds of tulips, taxonomy its species remains matter dispute. The current study is dedicated clarifying taxonomic relationship between two closely related species, T. iliensis thianschanica, by integrating morphological, karyotypic, molecular evidence—a novel framework for resolving ambiguities in species. Morphological analyses showed significant differences filament shape, pistil length, overall plant height, presence or absence stem hairs, perianth length width, which supports conclusion that they are distinct (p < 0.001). Karyotype analysis further verified disparities their chromosome morphology, karyotype indices scatter plot distributions suggest Molecular phylogenetic using Internal Transcribed Spacer sequences (ITSs) chloroplast genomes confirmed there evidence indicating possible occurrence hybridization events. research findings demonstrate thianschanica independent thereby providing valuable insights into wild tulips contributing conservation these

Language: Английский

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Assessing the effects of mowing intensity on the overwintering stem‐dwelling insect community of Solidago altissima L. (Asterales: Asteraceae)

Insect Conservation and Diversity, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: March 22, 2025

Abstract Mowing is a commonly used and necessary practice in the management of urban meadowscapes. However, mowing also source mortality for insects these In this study, we examined how changes intensity mows performed late fall affect overwintering stem‐dwelling insects. We define as size thatch produced by selected equipment blade positioning. generate more information on spatial structure insect community meadowscapes, both within individual stems broader habitat. artificially simulated different levels Solidago altissima L. (Asterales: Asteraceae) cutting to lengths recorded their survival outcomes. found that low treatment yielded lower rates than no‐mow control high treatment. are distributed non‐random arrangement vertically meadowscape. These findings highlight importance understanding effects changing parameters when designing practices identify some new gaps our they may interact with disturbances.

Language: Английский

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Tree cavity availability and distribution across habitats in Udaipur (Rajasthan), a small Indian City: implications for urban wildlife

Urban Ecosystems, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 28(3)

Published: April 16, 2025

Language: Английский

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The City as an Evolutionary Hothouse—The Search for Rapid Evolution in Urban Settings

Diversity, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 16(6), P. 308 - 308

Published: May 21, 2024

Cities are ubiquitous and, though a novel phenomenon by evolutionary standards, provide home for many species and exert particularly strong selection pressures on them. They thus offer unique opportunity to study rapid processes. We conducted scoping review of published studies documenting processes in urban environments, focusing primarily more recent work. Unfortunately, cities have not been attractive environments biological research remain poorly studied, despite slowly growing interest years. Nonetheless, we found the effects mutation, genetic drift, cities. However, show some geographic bias were always as conclusive might be desired. There is even support incipient speciation. Evidence across board less abundant than desirable, suggesting need data collection. The setting, with its stronger selection, common intermixing, abundance both human widespread potential non-human zoonosis hosts human-associated offers great opportunities further document evolution action explore conservation implications.

Language: Английский

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From beauty to belief: The aesthetic and diversity values of plants and pets in shaping biodiversity loss belief among Vietnamese urban residents

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 11(1)

Published: Nov. 9, 2024

Aesthetics is a crucial ecosystem service provided by biodiversity, which believed to help improve humans' quality of life and linked environmental consciousness pro-environmental behaviors. However, how aesthetic experience induced plants/animals influences the belief in occurrence significance biodiversity loss among urban residents remains understudied. Thus, current study aimed examine diversity pets in-house plants affect residents' different scenarios experiences (positive negative at home due plants/animals). Using Bayesian Mindsponge Framework (BMF) analytics on dataset 535 Vietnamese residents, we found that people's feeling about their house positively associated with loss. The also level belief, but effect conditional residents. Specifically, positive association between species only appears when feel houses' aesthetics are negatively affected plants/animals. Moreover, pet less significant reliable than plant diversity. These findings suggest raising through planting or ownership can potentially enhance subsequently build an eco-surplus culture

Language: Английский

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Citizens of the Global South value urban green space: an example from Iran

Published: Oct. 9, 2024

Language: Английский

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