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DOI | 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2017.08.014 |
Community-driven skyrise greenery in a dense tropical city provides biodiversity and ecosystem service benefits | |
Oh, Rachel R. Y.1; Richards, Daniel R.2; Yee, Alex T. K.1 | |
2018 | |
发表期刊 | LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING
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ISSN | 0169-2046 |
EISSN | 1872-6062 |
出版年 | 2018 |
卷号 | 169页码:115-123 |
文章类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | Singapore |
英文摘要 | Community-driven vertical greenery provides a previously under-appreciated resource that could be an important component of tropical urban ecology. While the corridors of buildings have been designed to facilitate the circulation of residents between spaces, this study shows that such corridors incidentally served as an informal space for community-driven vertical greenery. Across 1.86 ha of surveyed corridors, a total of 265 plant species and cultivars were present, with an average richness of 124 species per hectare. This is beneficial to urban ecology through its high species diversity, occurrence of endangered and vulnerable native species. Based on a classification of specific plant attributes referenced from literature, provision of food and medicinal resources (77.5%), and aesthetic benefits (72.3%) were the key ecosystem services provided by the species present. Community-driven vertical greenery could function as refugia for native species of conservation interest through providing an additional buffer against further losses in the wild. It also provides immediate opportunities for interactions between humans and nature. This study finds that corridors with larger areas and simpler geometries typically hold a higher abundance of plant pots. Future efforts to increase the abundance and diversity of vertical greenery, and its concomitant increase in the provision of ecosystem services, could be driven by local communities, rather than be formally planned by landscape architects, engineers and urban planners. |
英文关键词 | Ecosystem services Vertical greenery Urban ecology Informal green space Garden |
领域 | 资源环境 |
收录类别 | SCI-E ; SSCI |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000414882300011 |
WOS关键词 | DAYLIGHT ILLUMINANCE ; URBAN GREENERY ; SHADE ; CONSERVATION ; ROOFS ; ENVIRONMENT ; ADAPTATION ; LANDSCAPE ; ECOLOGY ; PEOPLE |
WOS类目 | Ecology ; Environmental Studies ; Geography ; Geography, Physical ; Regional & Urban Planning ; Urban Studies |
WOS研究方向 | Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Geography ; Physical Geography ; Public Administration ; Urban Studies |
引用统计 | |
文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/25132 |
专题 | 资源环境科学 |
作者单位 | 1.Natl Pk Board, Ctr Urban Greenery & Ecol, Singapore, Singapore; 2.Singapore ETH Ctr, Future Cities Lab, ETH Zurich, Singapore, Singapore |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Oh, Rachel R. Y.,Richards, Daniel R.,Yee, Alex T. K.. Community-driven skyrise greenery in a dense tropical city provides biodiversity and ecosystem service benefits[J]. LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING,2018,169:115-123. |
APA | Oh, Rachel R. Y.,Richards, Daniel R.,&Yee, Alex T. K..(2018).Community-driven skyrise greenery in a dense tropical city provides biodiversity and ecosystem service benefits.LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING,169,115-123. |
MLA | Oh, Rachel R. Y.,et al."Community-driven skyrise greenery in a dense tropical city provides biodiversity and ecosystem service benefits".LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING 169(2018):115-123. |
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