scholarly journals Butterfly biodiversity in the city is driven by the interaction of the urban landscape and the species traits: a call for contextualised management

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clàudia Pla-Narbona ◽  
Constantí Stefanescu ◽  
Joan Pino ◽  
Francisco J. Cabrero-Sañudo ◽  
Enrique García-Barros ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Species Richness ◽  
Functional Groups ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Landscape Planning ◽  
Choice Model ◽  
Species Traits ◽  
Similar Species ◽  
Landscape Characteristics ◽  
Mobile Species ◽  
The City

Abstract Context Urbanisation is an environmental filter for many species that leads to community homogenisation, with a few species inhabiting isolated patches (gardens) embedded in the urban landscape. Promoting biodiversity in urban areas requires understanding which and how species traits allow species to survive the urban landscape. Objectives The objective of this study was to assess how species traits and landscape factors combine to allow species functional groups live in the city, by means of the use of suitable patches in the urban landscape. Methods We used butterfly count data collected by volunteers in 24 gardens of Barcelona city, for 2018 and 2019. Species were clustered in functional groups according to their traits. We applied a multinomial choice model to test the effect of the landscape on the different functional groups. Results Three functional groups appeared in the city while a fourth, containing most sedentary specialist species, was filtered out. Although the observed groups had similar species richness, abundances varied depending on urban landscape characteristics. Specialist sedentary and medium mobile species were all favoured by patch connectivity; while the presence of mobile generalist species was only enhanced by habitat quality. Our results indicate that butterfly communities are more diverse in highly connected gardens. Conclusions Our study highlights the need of contextualised management with actions accounting for the species functional groups, rather than a management focused on general species richness. It evidences that urban landscape planning must focus on improving connectivity inside the city in order to diversify the community composition.

scholarly journals Butterfly biodiversity in the city is driven by the interaction of the urban landscape and species traits: a call for contextualised management

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clàudia Pla-Narbona ◽  
Constantí Stefanescu ◽  
Joan Pino ◽  
Francisco J. Cabrero-Sañudo ◽  
Enrique García-Barros ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Species Richness ◽  
Functional Groups ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Landscape Planning ◽  
Choice Model ◽  
Species Traits ◽  
Similar Species ◽  
Landscape Characteristics ◽  
Mobile Species ◽  
The City

Abstract Context Urbanisation is an environmental filter for many species that leads to community homogenisation, with a few species inhabiting isolated patches (e.g. public and private gardens and parks) embedded within the urban landscape. Promoting biodiversity in urban areas requires understanding which species traits allow species to survive the urban landscape. Objectives The objective of this study was to assess how species traits and landscape factors combine to allow species functional groups to live in the city. Methods We used butterfly count data collected by volunteers in 24 gardens of Barcelona city, during 2018 and 2019. Species were clustered in functional groups according to their traits. We applied a multinomial choice model to test for the effect of the landscape on the different functional groups. Results Three functional groups became prevalent in the city while a fourth, containing most sedentary specialist species, was filtered out. Although the observed groups had similar species richness, abundances varied depending on urban landscape characteristics. Specialist sedentary specialists and medium mobile species were all favoured by patch connectivity; while the presence of mobile generalist species was only enhanced by habitat quality. Our results indicate that butterfly communities are more diverse in highly connected gardens. Conclusions Our study highlights the need of contextualised management with actions accounting for the species functional groups, rather than a management focused on general species richness. It demonstrates that urban landscape planning must focus on improving connectivity inside the city in order to diversify the community composition.

scholarly journals Visibility Analysis of the Oriental Pearl Based on Digital Landscape Simulation – View from East Daming Road of Shanghai

2015 ◽  
Vol XL-5/W7 ◽  
pp. 299-303
Author(s):  
S. Liu ◽  
S. Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Visual Analysis ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Landscape Planning ◽  
City Image ◽  
Analysis Model ◽  
Good Tool ◽  
The North ◽  
The City ◽  
Digital Landscape

As the demand for visual quality of environment increases, visual analysis therefore plays progressively important role in current urban landscape construction and management. Guided by the City Image theory, this paper presents a covered scene index “X” to describe the visibility of the target scene, and formulates a digital analysis model based on ArcGIS and 3D simulation. This method is applied to the viewpoint analysis from the East Daming Road of the North Bund to the Oriental Pearl in Shanghai and optimized solutions are proposed according to the results. It turns out that this simple and objective technique can serve as a good tool for the reference of urban landscape planning and management.

The Landscape Planning and Design of Urban Park for the Red Revolutionary Culture

2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-67
Author(s):  
Hongquan Li ◽  
Chunyu Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Landscape Planning ◽  
Urban Parks ◽  
Design Stage ◽  
Urban Park ◽  
Theme Park ◽  
Artificial Structure ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
The City ◽  
Structure Light

With the development of the city, the urban parks of the red revolutionary culture have been gradually recognized by people. Red culture can arouse people's special memory for a period and a city, thus gradually applying to the urban landscape planning. Based on this, in this paper, in terms of terrain, water, artificial structure, light and shade, color and so on, the urban park landscape of the red revolutionary culture was planned and studied. At the same time, by using a large number of successful cases of domestic red landscape and foreign commemorative landscape, a way of thinking and method for the design of red landscape was explored. In addition, taking the Wuzhishan red cultural theme park as an example, the study was carried out, and the problems faced by the red culture theme park in the planning and design stage were expounded. Finally, the theory was applied to practice, thus providing an example for reference.

Tolerant and avoiders in an urban landscape: anuran species richness and functional groups responses in the Yungas’ forest of NW Argentina

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura C. Pereyra ◽  
M. S. Akmentins ◽  
M. J. Salica ◽  
M. F. Quiroga ◽  
C. E. Moreno ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Species Richness ◽  
Functional Groups ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Anuran Species

scholarly journals Mountainous City Featured Landscape Planning Based on GIS-AHP Analytical Method

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 211
Author(s):  
Yanlong Liu ◽  
Li Li
Keyword(s):  
Landscape Pattern ◽  
Analytical Method ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Landscape Planning ◽  
Resource Assessment ◽  
Water Area ◽  
Assessment System ◽  
Ecological Sensitivity ◽  
The City ◽  
Green Land

In order to take full advantage of the landscape resources in the city’s featured landscape planning, and mutually integrate ecological green land with city space, this paper takes the mountainous city, Qianxi County, as the research subject to conduct an ecological sensitivity analysis with the GIS space analytical method, while adopting the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) method to find a landscape resource assessment system for Qianxi County. Based on the analysis of the mountainous city landscape pattern characteristics and ecological adaptability, the paper combines with the landscape planning practice in Qianxi County and starts from the ecological pattern construction and urban landscape resource assessment to expound the methodological guidance function of the GIS-AHP analytical method for the mountainous city landscape planning. This method helps recognize the characteristics of the city landscape resources in an all-sided way that protects the city landscape, improves the use-value of the mountainous city landscape resources, integrates the city land area with the water area landscape’s green land and builds an ecological, cultural, and habitable mountainous city featured landscape pattern.

scholarly journals The Role of Participation in Urban Landscape Planning in Yokohama: The Success of the Takashima Central Park Project

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-72
Author(s):  
Marco Akira Klebel
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
City Planning ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Landscape Planning ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Management Tool ◽  
Political Scientist ◽  
Central Park ◽  
City Construction ◽  
The City

Abstract In Japan, citizens’ participation in urban planning is called machizukuri. This kind of cooperation between citizens and city administration in urban planning appeared in the 1970s, as a countermovement to the traditional top-down urban planning called toshikeikaku of the 1960s. Municipal city planning increasingly encouraged machizukuri projects, allowing citizens to participate in planning activities. The City of Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture promoted innovative methods of participation. From the ‘Letters to the Mayor’ in the late 1960s to current programmes, the City of Yokohama established many support measures for machizukuri activities and in the 1990s the administration approved the engagement of citizens as an important management tool, as seen in the City Construction Project for the Citizens of Yokohama. One contribution to this project is the Takashima Central Park Project, which started in 2008 and which is considered by many critics as a very successful participation project. This paper focuses on the questions of how far the Takashima Central Park Project was successful and what the reasons for success or unspoken failure were by referring to the theories of the German political scientist Angelika Vetter and the German political sociologist Brigitte Geißel. The research is based on qualitative interviews with some of the people involved, such as citizens, planners and administrative personnel. The article will identify the various aspects of the complex variable ‘success’ and their interdependence.

The Aesthetic View of the Chinese Urban Landscape Design

2014 ◽  
Vol 584-586 ◽  
pp. 587-594
Author(s):  
Guang Qing He
Keyword(s):  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Landscape Design ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Analysis And Design ◽  
Landscape Characteristics ◽  
Aesthetic Consciousness ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Aesthetic Characteristics ◽  
Modern Landscape ◽  
The City

The modern city landscape not only as a window of the image of the city, but also an important manifestation of architectural aesthetics. Concern landscape characteristics in China's development, further analysis and design point of aesthetic consciousness and aesthetic spirit. Therefore, in view of the aesthetic characteristics of traditional and modern landscape, this paper attempts to explore the sustainable development of the visual system.

Exploring plant species richness along the Tiber River within the city of Rome

Phytotaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 482 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-158
Author(s):  
SIMONA CESCHIN ◽  
GIOVANNI SALERNO
Keyword(s):  
Species Richness ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Plant Species Richness ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Ecological Features ◽  
River Stretch ◽  
Tiber River ◽  
High Species Richness ◽  
The City

The Tiber River stretch crossing the metropolitan area of Rome (Italy) is regarded as one of the main biological corridors of the city, as it diversifies the urban landscape while contributing to the plant diversity. This paper aims to document the current plant richness occurring along the Tiber within the city by providing a comprehensive inventory of the spontaneous vascular flora and an overview of its composition, and structural, chorological and ecological features. This flora lists 493 species and it is characterized by: i) high species richness (more than 30% of Rome’s flora), ii) presence of species with naturalistic value, as rare or included in Red List IUCN categories, iii) high number of ruderal and multizonal species (including several aliens) that have well adapted to human disturbance, and have partially replaced the typical riverine plants, iv) wide spread of eutrophic aquatic species, and rarefaction of those species that are more sensitive to eutrophication and water pollution. The dataset and the overview reported in this study can be useful for future research, with a special focus on a better naturalistic management of the urban river ecosystem, and the conservation of the floristic heritage within the city of Rome.

Research on Territoriality of Urban Color in Yichang

2013 ◽  
Vol 409-410 ◽  
pp. 960-965 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gui Yuan Li ◽  
Yue Li ◽  
Han Xiao Xie
Keyword(s):  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Present Situation ◽  
Human Geography ◽  
Master Planning ◽  
City Development ◽  
Landscape Characteristics ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Color System ◽  
Region Culture ◽  
The City

Urban color, as the image and important culture carrier of a city, has an irreplaceable role in molding urban landscape characteristics, improving the image of the city, inheriting region culture,etc. This paper is based on color geography theory, in-depth research in city development present situation and development characteristics of Yichang, Hubei province, combined with the Yichang master planning, in-depth analysis of Yichang natural geography and human geography features, explore the suitable urban color system of Yichang.

scholarly journals Study on methods of design technology for the nightscape of urban gardens

2018 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 03017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lu Min ◽  
Sun Baoshan ◽  
Li Donghe ◽  
Luo Xiaonan ◽  
Zhao Peng
Keyword(s):  
High Efficiency ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Landscape Planning ◽  
High Technology ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Design Technology ◽  
Comprehensive Utilization ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
New Form ◽  
The City

As a new form of landscape designing, the garden nightscape is an important part of the urban landscape planning and design. The scientific and reasonable method of design technology for the city garden nightscape can provide foundations and technical supports for the design of garden nightscape and the creation of excellent landscape. The study analyzes and summarizes the application of lighting source, landscape lamps and the landscape lighting technology in the garden. It is indicated that the modern garden nightscape shows the trend of comprehensive utilization of high efficiency, energy saving, low carbon ecology, lighting and decoration, and high technology.

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