Public perceptions and preferences for wildflower meadows in Beijing, China

Jiang, Yarong; Yuan, Tao

doi:10.1016/j.ufug.2017.07.004

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“…Urban meadow areas are widely advocated by conservation organizations (RSPB , The Wildlife Trusts ). While the potential benefits to people and wildlife are widely articulated, and there are some studies of human responses (Jiang and Yuan , Southon et al. ), there is little work quantifying the ecological effects of different types of urban meadows in public greenspaces (Klaus ).…”

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“…This results from direct effects of reduced habitat availability and complexity and other effects such as microclimate alteration (Gardiner and Hassall 2009), trampling by humans (Duffey 1975), and mowing limiting forb flowering and seed set (Garbuzov et al 2015) and causing direct mortality (Humbert et al 2010). As a result, there is growing interest around the world in finding more structurally and botanically diverse alternatives to mown amenity grassland (Bormann et al 2001, Klaus 2013, Blackmore and Goulson 2014, Hwang et al 2017, Jiang and Yuan 2017.…”

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“…Urban meadow areas are widely advocated by conservation organizations (RSPB 2013, The Wildlife Trusts 2018. While the potential benefits to people and wildlife are widely articulated, and there are some studies of human responses (Jiang andYuan 2017, Southon et al 2017), there is little work quantifying the ecological effects of different types of urban meadows in public greenspaces (Klaus 2013). This contrasts with the more extensive examination of the ecological effects of increasing wildflower coverage in agricultural systems (Knop et al 2006, Haaland et al 2011, Buri et al 2016.…”

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Urban meadows as an alternative to short mown grassland: effects of composition and height on biodiversity

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There are increasing calls to provide greenspace in urban areas, yet the ecological quality, as well as quantity, of greenspace is important. Short mown grassland designed for recreational use is the dominant form of urban greenspace in temperate regions but requires considerable maintenance and typically provides limited habitat value for most taxa. Alternatives are increasingly proposed, but the biodiversity potential of these is not well understood. In a replicated experiment across six public urban greenspaces, we used nine different perennial meadow plantings to quantify the relative roles of floristic diversity and height of sown meadows on the richness and composition of three taxonomic groups: plants, invertebrates, and soil microbes. We found that all meadow treatments were colonized by plant species not sown in the plots, suggesting that establishing sown meadows does not preclude further locally determined grassland development if management is appropriate. Colonizing species were rarer in taller and more diverse plots, indicating competition may limit invasion rates. Urban meadow treatments contained invertebrate and microbial communities that differed from mown grassland. Invertebrate taxa responded to changes in both height and richness of meadow vegetation, but most orders were more abundant where vegetation height was longer than mown grassland. Order richness also increased in longer vegetation and Coleoptera family richness increased with plant diversity in summer. Microbial community composition seems sensitive to plant species composition at the soil surface (0–10 cm), but in deeper soils (11–20 cm) community variation was most responsive to plant height, with bacteria and fungi responding differently. In addition to improving local residents’ site satisfaction, native perennial meadow plantings can produce biologically diverse grasslands that support richer and more abundant invertebrate communities, and restructured plant, invertebrate, and soil microbial communities compared with short mown grassland. Our results suggest that diversification of urban greenspace by planting urban meadows in place of some mown amenity grassland is likely to generate substantial biodiversity benefits, with a mosaic of meadow types likely to maximize such benefits.

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“…Furthermore, the perspective from which a site is viewed also seems to be important. Studies that are based on the evaluation of images taken from diverse angles, distances, and viewing perspectives have indicated that these overall setting factors affect the overall results of landscape assessment [1,75,90,[168][169][170]. However, the ways in which observations from different perspectives influence the perception of an individual location remain unclear [90].…”

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Perception of Urban Green Areas Associated with Sociodemographic Affiliation, Structural Elements, and Acceptance Stripes

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Betz

Unterweger³

2020

Urban Science

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The extensification (opposite of intensification) of urban public green spaces offers great potential for conservation. One major issue for the long-term success of such a measure is, however, its acceptance by the urban population. This contribution presents the results of an image-based online questionnaire that we set to elucidate the role of sociodemographic affiliations regarding the perception of urban green areas. We also asked whether acceptability can be increased by the presence of additional structural elements (sculptures, benches) and "acceptance stripes", i.e., stripes regularly mowed only at the margins of a natural green space. Regarding structural elements, 40to 60-year-olds consistently rejected intensely maintained lawns and perceived a lawn as positive only in combination with a sculpture. A regularly mowed acceptance stripe resulted in a positive perception of natural meadows by people with an affinity for city life, classified based on their actual place of residence and/or their social dimension including aspects such as sense of place, familiarity, profession, and interests. Thus, decision-making processes of policy makers must be evaluated together with the urban population and should be assessed multidimensionally, i.e., by considering various criteria (e.g., ecological, social, and aesthetic aspects) in order to meet the requirements of residents and achieve an increase in biodiversity.

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“…However, the effects of thinning on Mongolian pine productivity are not fully understood, making optimization of thinning practices not possible. Jiang [10] observed that the growth of Mongolian pine plantations is below expectation with high and with low thinning levels, and You et al [11] related mean diameter and density in artificial Mongolian pine forest; however, the most effective thinning intensity and stand age are unknown. Increasing the knowledge of thinning effects is critically important for guiding the silviculture of Mongolian pine forests.…”

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Effects of Thinning and Water Supply Manipulation on the Productivity of Pinus sylvestris var. mongolica in Northeastern China

2016

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Management is an effective tool for increasing the productivity of Mongolian pine (Pinus sylvestris var. mongolica). This species has been widely planted in China, especially in sandy lands. However, optimization of management practices had not been fully explored. We established a system dynamic model to evaluate the effects of thinning and of manipulation of water supply on the productivity and population density of a Mongolian pine forest (17 scenarios in total). Different levels of thinning increased the mean biomass of Mongolian pine over no-management to a range from 202 to 256 t·ha-1. Increasing water supply decreased the mean biomass of Mongolian pine to a range from 176 to 199 t·ha-1. These results indicated that thinning at different levels may lead to an increase in biomass accumulation, while manipulating water supply may decrease biomass. Further, thinning appeared more effective than increasing water supply in efforts at maintaining high productivity of Mongolian pine forests. Moreover, the highest biomass occurred in a scenario with a thinning intensity of 30% in over-mature trees, indicating that this thinning intensity was the most effective choice for to the maintenance of the highest biomass in Mongolian pine forests. This study informs about the interactions between Mongolian pine and forest management, and provides guidelines for the practice of management of this forest type.

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Public perceptions and preferences for wildflower meadows in Beijing, China

Cited by 38 publications

References 18 publications

Urban meadows as an alternative to short mown grassland: effects of composition and height on biodiversity

Urban meadows as an alternative to short mown grassland: effects of composition and height on biodiversity

Perception of Urban Green Areas Associated with Sociodemographic Affiliation, Structural Elements, and Acceptance Stripes

Effects of Thinning and Water Supply Manipulation on the Productivity of Pinus sylvestris var. mongolica in Northeastern China

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