How did the diversity of woody plants in urban forests vary with the urban-rural gradient in Qingdao, China?

ABSTRACT: The distribution and diversity of woody vegetation are crucial for understanding the structure and ecology of urban forests. As urbanization accelerates, the construction and composition of urban forests vary significantly along the urban-rural gradient. Qingdao's urban forests offer an opportunity to test the relationship between the diversity of woody plants and the urban-rural gradient. We classified the urban-rural gradient using imperviousness and construction time, then investigated the diversity of woody plants in Qingdao's urban forests under different urban-rural gradients and tested the reasonableness of their allocation. Correlation analysis found that the diversity index of woody plants in urban forests was highly connected to the urban-rural gradient (by imperviousness: r

SUBMITTER: Zhu R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11415664 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature