Linking ecosystem services, urban form and green space configuration using multivariate landscape metric analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Context

Landscape metrics represent powerful tools for quantifying landscape structure, but uncertainties persist around their interpretation. Urban settings add unique considerations, containing habitat structures driven by the surrounding built-up environment. Understanding urban ecosystems, however, should focus on the habitats rather than the matrix.

Objectives

We coupled a multivariate approach with landscape metric analysis to overcome existing shortcomings in interpretation. We then explored relationships between landscape characteristics and modelled ecosystem service provision.

Methods

We used principal component analysis and cluster analysis to isolate the most effective measures of landscape variability and then grouped habitat patches according to their at

SUBMITTER: Grafius DR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6561088 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature