Search results for "Urban Biodiversity"

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A Plant Sociological Procedure for the Ecological Design and Enhancement of Urban Green Infrastructure

2021

AbstractUrban green infrastructure could represent an important mean for environmental mitigation, if designed according to the principles of restoration ecology. Moreover, if suitably executed, managed and sized, they may be assimilated to meta-populations of natural habitats, deserving to be included in the biodiversity monitoring networks. In this chapter, we combined automatised and expert opinion-based procedures in order to select the vascular plant assemblages to populate different microhabitats (differing in terms of light and moisture) co-occurring on an existing green roof in Zurich (Switzerland). Our results lead to identify three main plant species groups, which prove to be the …

Urban biodiversityVegetationPioneer speciesSettore ICAR/15 - Architettura Del Paesaggiobusiness.industryGreen roofEnvironmental resource managementBiodiversitySpecies introductionUrban meadowEcosystem services580: Pflanzen (Botanik)Green roofSettore BIO/03 - Botanica Ambientale E ApplicataRuderal speciesSpecies richnessbusinessGreen infrastructureData miningRestoration ecologyGreen roofs Urban biodiversity Species introduction Urban meadows Data mining Vegetation
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More nature in the city

2020

According to projects and practices that the Italian botanists and ecologists are carrying out for bringing “more nature in the city”, new insights for a factual integration between ecological perspectives and more consolidated aesthetic and agronomic approaches to the sustainable planning and management of urban green areas are provided.

urban green areas2019-20 coronavirus outbreak010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciencesCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)Ecosystem serviceSevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)Settore BIO/02Ecosystem services green infrastructure human well-being urban biodiversity urban green areasPlant Science010501 environmental sciencesEcosystem services Human well-being Green infrastructure Urban green areas Urban biodiversity01 natural sciencesurban biodiversityEcosystem servicesGreen infrastructure Urban green areaEcosystem servicesEnvironmental planninghuman well-beingEcosystem services; Human well-being; Green infrastructure Urban green areas; Urban biodiversityEcology Evolution Behavior and Systematics0105 earth and related environmental sciencesurban green areaSettore BIO/02 - Botanica SistematicaAmbientaleGeographygreen infrastructureSettore BIO/03 - Botanica Ambientale E ApplicataEcosystem services; green infrastructure; human well-being; urban biodiversity; urban green areasGreen infrastructure
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