Urbanization Forecasts, Effects on Land Use, Biodiversity, and Ecosystem Services

Güneralp, Burak; McDonald, Robert I.; Fragkias, Michail; Goodness, Julie; Marcotullio, Peter J.; Seto, Karen C.

doi:10.1007/978-94-007-7088-1_22

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“…Urban development has profound impacts on ecosystem service provision (Gü neralp et al, 2013;Seto et al, 2012;Tianhong et al, 2010;Zhao et al, 2006), not least because the costs and benefits of green infrastructure (the network of greenspaces, water and other vegetated features in towns and cities) are rarely considered in expanding cities. This is despite the plethora of studies which have demonstrated the importance of urban green infrastructure in supporting the delivery of multiple services, such as temperature mitigation (Myint et al, 2013;Park et al, 2012;Susca et al, 2011), pollution reduction (Manes et al, 2012;Pugh et al, 2012), biological carbon storage , promoting human health and well-being (Mitchell and Popham, 2007;Ward-Thompson et al, 2012;Dallimer et al, 2012a;Irvine et al, 2013, Keniger et al, 2013, facilitating good social relations (Kuo and Sullivan, 2001;Sullivan et al, 2004), and the provision of habitat for biodiversity Goddard et al, 2010;Dallimer et al, 2012b).…”

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Historical influences on the current provision of multiple ecosystem services

Dallimer

Davies

Diaz-Porras

et al. 2015

Global Environmental Change

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Historical influences on the current provision of multiple ecosystem services

Dallimer

Davies

Diaz-Porras

et al. 2015

Global Environmental Change

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“…With rapid phase of urbanization, infrastructure development and industrialization going on, and Muscat, being the capital city of Oman, the floristic diversity is under threat. Urbanization affects floristic diversity directly through habitat loss and fragmentation and indirectly due to human behavior [16][17][18][19]. Being an arid zone ecologically, such zones are fragile, usually highly specialized, with high degree of endemism.…”

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Flora, Life-forms and Biological Spectrum of Muscat Governorate

Sherwani

2020

SQU Journal for Science

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The present study evaluated the floristic diversity and biological spectrum of Muscat Governorate, Sultanate of Oman. Heterogeneity of geology, topography and climatic conditions create a diverse array of habitats across the 3,500 km2 study area, supporting a range of vegetation types. Floristic studies were conducted across 42 sites spread across various habitats such as sand dunes, alluvial plains, gravel plains, wadis, saline dunes, coastal areas, farms and plantations. A total of 264 species belonging to 183 genera and 54 families of angiosperm were documented during sampling the vegetation from different wilayats of the Governorate. Maximum number of species belonged to family Fabaceae (14%), followed by Poaceae (12%), Asteraceae (9%), Apocyanaceae and Convolvulaceae (3.66% each), Boraginaceae, Euphorbiaceae, Zygophylaceae (3% each). The biological spectrum was represented almost equally by therophytes and chamaephytes (30% each), followed by phanerophytes (19%), hemicryptophytes (13%), geophytes (4%), liana (3%), and helophytes (1%). The dominance of therophytes and chamaephytes reveals a thero-chamaephytic phytoclimate for the area. Different habitats are characterized by specific plant assemblages, but some species such as Acacia tortilis, Prosopis cineraria, Tetraena quaterense, Dipterygium gluacum, Aerva javanica, due to their broad ecological tolerance and adaptations, inhabit more than one habitats, while some species are just confined to certain parts of a single habitat.

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“…While the conservation effectiveness of protected areas (see Bruner et al 2001) is by no means guaranteed and protection may not act as a barrier to urban expansion (see Güneralp et al 2013), legal designation of conservation areas remains the primary tool in deflecting widespread habitat losses. While we found that some ESAs on Mauritius were significantly attached to protected areas, there was a surprisingly larger number of these represented in areas that were privately owned or without any current land-use designation (Table 5).…”

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Threats to environmentally sensitive areas from peri-urban expansion in Mauritius

Hammond¹,

Gond

Baider

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Envir. Conserv.

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Rapid population growth and economic change on the tropical islands of Mauritius have led to one of the highest rates of urban build-out in the world. Pressure on many of the island's natural features and resources increasingly risks further degradation to the environmental services that they provide to the country. Fourteen types of marine and terrestrial environmentally sensitive areas (ESAs) are critical to the nation's sustainable development. Twelve of these ESA types are currently at risk of degradation, owing to their spatial proximity to built-up areas (BUAs) and current use designation. There was a bimodal distribution in proximity; eight of the 12 ESA types analysed had an area-weighted modal peak < 500 m from the nearest BUA, and four ESAs had a modal peak 2–3 km from the nearest BUA. Six coastal and marine ESAs had limited protection from urban expansion and over-use. The Mauritian experience reflects trends that are emerging across many tropical developing countries, where the bulk of future global growth in urban area is expected to occur. The approach detailed in this case study is replicable and may be useful in assessing degradation risk as a result of urban expansion in other island countries. (Résumé d'auteur

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Urbanization Forecasts, Effects on Land Use, Biodiversity, and Ecosystem Services

Cited by 39 publications

References 45 publications

Historical influences on the current provision of multiple ecosystem services

Historical influences on the current provision of multiple ecosystem services

Flora, Life-forms and Biological Spectrum of Muscat Governorate

Threats to environmentally sensitive areas from peri-urban expansion in Mauritius

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