Vegetation management for urban park visitors: a mixed methods approach in Portland, Oregon.

ABSTRACT: Urban park managers are tasked with maintaining ecological function and quality of parks while also meeting visitor preferences. The purpose of this study was to better understand how managers currently manage vegetation in parks of Portland, Oregon. Twenty-one urban park manager interviews were completed regarding 15 parks, which included natural-passive use, recreational-active use, and multi-use park types. Responses were coded for themes and patterns of meaning. Mixed methods were used to evaluate the urban park manager interview data in the context of visitor interview and plant community composition data collected at the same parks. Nonmetric multidimensional scaling ordinations were used to identify urban park manager and visitor perspectives correlated with different park types and

SUBMITTER: Talal ML 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7317485 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature