Residential household yard care practices along urban-exurban gradients in six climatically-diverse U.S. metropolitan areas.

ABSTRACT: Residential land is expanding in the United States, and lawn now covers more area than the country's leading irrigated crop by area. Given that lawns are widespread across diverse climatic regions and there is rising concern about the environmental impacts associated with their management, there is a clear need to understand the geographic variation, drivers, and outcomes of common yard care practices. We hypothesized that 1) income, age, and the number of neighbors known by name will be positively associated with the odds of having irrigated, fertilized, or applied pesticides in the last year, 2) irrigation, fertilization, and pesticide application will vary quadratically with population density, with the highest odds in suburban areas, and 3) the odds of irrigating will vary by climate,

SUBMITTER: Locke DH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6853287 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature