Connectivity assessment and prioritization of urban grasslands as a helpful tool for effective management of urban ecosystem services.

ABSTRACT: Urban grasslands are usually managed as short-cut lawns and have limited biodiversity. Urban grasslands with low-intensity management are species rich and can perform numerous ecosystem services, but they are not accepted by citizens everywhere. Further, increasing and/or maintaining a relatively high level of plant species richness in an urban environment is limited by restricted plant dispersal. In this study, we examined the connectivity of urban grasslands and prioritized the grassland patches with regard to their role in connectivity in an urban landscape. We used high-resolution data from a land use system to map grassland patches in Wrocław city, Silesia, southwest Poland, Central Europe, and applied a graph theory approach to assess their connectivity and prioritization. We next co

SUBMITTER: Mollashahi H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7769447 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature