| Autor: |
J. Amy Belaire, Caitlin Higgins, Deidre Zoll, Katherine Lieberknecht, R. Patrick Bixler, John L. Neff, Timothy H. Keitt, Shalene Jha |
| Rok vydání: |
2022 |
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| Zdroj: |
The Science of the total environment. 849 |
| ISSN: |
1879-1026 |
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Urban watersheds can play a critical role in supporting biodiversity and ecosystem services in a rapidly changing world. However, managing for multiple environmental and social objectives in urban landscapes is challenging, especially if the optimization of one ecosystem service conflicts with another. Urban ecology research has frequently been limited to a few indicators - typically either biodiversity or ecosystem service indices - making tradeoffs and synergies difficult to assess. Through a recently established watershed-scale monitoring network in Central Texas, we address this gap by evaluating biodiversity (flora and fauna), habitat quality, and ecosystem service indices of urban green spaces across the watershed. Our results reveal substantial heterogeneity in biodiversity and ecosystem service levels and multiple synergies (stacked benefits or "win-wins"). For example, we found that carbon sequestration positively correlated with tree species richness and the proportion of native trees in a green space, indicating that biodiversity goals for increased tree diversity can also provide carbon sequestration benefits. We also documented correlations between green spaces with greater riparian forest cover and lower particulate matter (PM |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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