Urban vegetation of Almerı́a City—a contribution to urban ecology in Spain

Dana, Elías D.; Vivas, S.; Poveda, Juan Francisco Mota

doi:10.1016/s0169-2046(02)00039-7

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“…As one of the most important parts in the earth land ecosystem, vegetation provides a wide range of social and environmental services to urban life, and benefits the sustainability of urban ecosystems [2][3][4]. For example, urban vegetation can sequestrate carbon [5], regulate microclimates [6], improve air quality [7], preserve biodiversity [8], conserve soil and water and mitigate nature disasters [9]. However, palaeoecological and palaeoenvironmental records show that vegetation and ecosystem have been obviously influenced by human disturbances and climate change in long-term landscape evolution [10][11][12].…”

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“…In cities, anthropogenic activities could impact vegetation cover in a positive or negative way [18,29]. On the one hand, large patches of fertile cropland and forest were transformed to urban constructed lands during the process of urbanization [30,31]; on the other hand, people have recognized the importance of vegetation in urban ecosystems, and have given more and more attention to urban greening plans [8,32]. However, it is difficult to balance between economic development and ecosystem protection, resulting in obvious constructed land growth and green area reduction [33,34].…”

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“…In addition, the rate of local climate warming would increase if large scale vegetation was removed (e.g., urban heat island) during the process of urbanization [35], which contrarily altered vegetation growing period [36], as well as water and carbon cycles within the urban ecosystem [37]. Consequently, local climate change and urban land expansion are the two dominant factors for vegetation variations, even acting as obstructions to reasoned urban planning [8,36,38].…”

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Responses of Vegetation Cover to Environmental Change in Large Cities of China

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Vegetation cover is crucial for the sustainability of urban ecosystems; however, this cover has been undergoing substantial changes in cities. Based on climate data, city statistical data, nighttime light data and the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) dataset, we investigate the spatiotemporal variations of climate factors, urban lands and vegetation cover in 71 large cities of China during 1998-2012, and explore their correlations. A regression model between growing-season NDVI (G-NDVI) and urban land proportion (PU) is built to quantify the impact of urbanization on vegetation cover change. The results indicate that the spatiotemporal variations of temperature, precipitation, PU and G-NDVI are greatly different among the 71 cities which experienced rapid urbanization. The spatial difference of G-NDVI is closely related to diverse climate conditions, while the inter-annual variations of G-NDVI are less sensitive to climate changes. In addition, there is a negative correlation between G-NDVI trend and PU change, indicating vegetation cover in cities have been negatively impacted by urbanization. For most of the inland cities, the urbanization impacts on vegetation cover in urban areas are more severe than in suburban areas. But the opposite occurs in 17 cities mainly located in the coastal areas which have been undergoing the most rapid urbanization. Overall, the impacts of urbanization on G-NDVI change are estimated to be −0.026 per decade in urban areas and −0.015 per decade in suburban areas during 1998-2012. The long-term developments of cities would persist and continue to impact on the environmental change and sustainability. We use a 15-year window here as a case study, which implies the millennia of human effects on the natural biotas and warns us to manage landscapes and preserve ecological environments properly.

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2018

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“…También la biodiversidad y los efectos que los factores humanos tienen sobre las comunidades vegetales y animales han centrado distintos objetivos de investigación (ej. Buján et al, 1998;Dana et al, 2002;Murgui, 2009;Mendes et al, 2011). Sin embargo, gran número de hábitats y comunidades de los espacios urbanos siguen siendo aún desconocidos, y la ecología urbana se presenta como una disciplina con un amplio campo de investigación y desarrollo para hacer frente a estos retos.…”

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Biodiversidad vegetal y ciudad: aproximaciones desde la ecología urbana

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2015

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RESUMENLa ecología urbana analiza los procesos y las interacciones de los ecosistemas urbanos con su entorno biofísico y humano más inmediato. Estos ecosistemas albergan altos niveles de biodiversidad a la vez que proporcionan bienes y servicios a la sociedad. El propósito de este estudio es elaborar un marco teórico a partir de la revisión bibliográfica de algunos de los trabajos más relevantes sobre ecología y vegetación urbana. De este modo se articula un escenario que permite acercarse a las áreas verdes urbanas, y en concreto a los jardines domésticos, desde una perspectiva más integradora.Palabras clave: ecología urbana, biodiversidad vegetal, ciudad, jardines domésticos. ABSTRACTUrban ecology examines processes and interactions between urban ecosystems and their biophysical and immediate human environment. These ecosystems host vegetated areas with high levels of biodiversity and also provide several goods and services to society. The purpose of this study is to develop a theoretical framework based on a review of relevant

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“…20世纪以来, 随着全球范围内城市化进程的加快, 由城市化引起的各种负面环境问题使得作为城市生态系统主要组成部分之一的城市植被发生了深刻的变化 (McKinney, 2002;Dana et al, 2002;杨永川等, 2003;Sukopp, 2004;Zhao et al, 2006) (1)…”

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Characteristics and significance of the remnant evergreen broad-leaved forest in the urban area of Chongqing, China

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2007

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Urban vegetation of Almerı́a City—a contribution to urban ecology in Spain

Cited by 75 publications

References 28 publications

Responses of Vegetation Cover to Environmental Change in Large Cities of China

Responses of Vegetation Cover to Environmental Change in Large Cities of China

Biodiversidad vegetal y ciudad: aproximaciones desde la ecología urbana

Characteristics and significance of the remnant evergreen broad-leaved forest in the urban area of Chongqing, China

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