A systematic florula of a disturbed urban habitat: Pavements of Sheffield, England.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Human settlements are of increasing interest to ecologists, a fact demonstrated by the recent cluster of book-length treatments of the topic (Forman 2008, McDonnell et al. 2009, Gaston 2010, Niemelä et al. 2011, Wilson 2011, Forman 2014). The natural world as a fascinating feature of towns and cities has a much longer history (e.g. Fitter 1945), and has also played a strong part in local biological conservation in some countries over the late 20th Century (Goode 2014​). Despite much existing information on urban plant and animal communities resulting from these trends, very little, easily accessible, systematic data on urban biodiversity is currently available.

New information

Few systematic, randomised surveys at fine spatial grain exist for urban habitats, and e

SUBMITTER: Pescott OL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5136682 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature