Vegetation communities on commercial developments are heterogenous and determined by development and landscaping decisions, not socioeconomics.

ABSTRACT: In urban ecosystems, woody vegetation communities and the ecosystem functions and habitat they provide are largely controlled by humans. These communities are assembled during development, landscaping, and maintenance processes according to decisions made by human actors. While vegetation communities on residential land uses are increasingly well studied, these efforts generally have not extended to other land uses, including commercial property. To fill this gap, I surveyed tree and shrub communities on office developments located in Redmond and Bellevue, Washington, USA, and explored whether aggregated neighborhood and parcel scale socio-economic variables or variables describing the outcome of development and landscaping actions better explained variation in vegetation communities. I fo

SUBMITTER: Dyson K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6736242 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature