A spatial framework for targeting urban planning for pollinators and people with local stakeholders: A route to healthy, blossoming communities?

Bellamy, Chloe; Jagt, Alexander P.N. van der; Barbour, Shelley; Smith, M.; Moseley, Darren

doi:10.1016/j.envres.2017.06.023

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“…Urbanization is considered as one of the major contributors to global change, with its parallel increase in population size and change in human lifestyle [5,6]. Urbanization is expected to continue to support an increasing in situ population, which will therefore expand the city scale in future, and ignite a series of questions on the sustainability of social development / urbanization problems (i.e., food and water shortages, environmental degradation and a rise in unemployment) [6][7][8][9]. Previous studies have suggested that the solution of urbanization problems is a great challenge for government and academics due to the complexity and the variability of the influencing factors [8,9].…”

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“…Urbanization is expected to continue to support an increasing in situ population, which will therefore expand the city scale in future, and ignite a series of questions on the sustainability of social development / urbanization problems (i.e., food and water shortages, environmental degradation and a rise in unemployment) [6][7][8][9]. Previous studies have suggested that the solution of urbanization problems is a great challenge for government and academics due to the complexity and the variability of the influencing factors [8,9]. Evaluating the influencing factors of urbanization has been considered one of the most important ways in solving urbanization problems [10][11][12].…”

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“…e ., food and water shortages, environmental degradation and a rise in unemployment) [ 6 – 9 ]. Previous studies have suggested that the solution of urbanization problems is a great challenge for government and academics due to the complexity and the variability of the influencing factors [ 8 , 9 ]. Evaluating the influencing factors of urbanization has been considered one of the most important ways in solving urbanization problems [ 10 – 12 ].…”

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Evaluating the influencing factors of urbanization in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region over the past 27 years based on VIIRS-DNB and DMSP/OLS nightlight imageries

Yang

Gong

2020

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The Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region is the core economic area of the "Silk Road Economic Belt". The urbanization of this region plays a highly important role in economic and cultural communications between China, Central Asia and Europe. However, the influencing factors of urbanization in this region remain unclear. In this study, we presented a new modified thresholding method to extract the urban built-up areas from two nightlight remote sensing data sources, i.e., the DMSP/OLS and VIIRS/DNB nightlight imageries. Then, geographical detectors and hierarchical partitioning analysis were used to test the influences of anthropogenic and geographic environmental factors on urbanization. Our results showed that the relative error between the actual and the extracted urban built-up areas calculated using our method ranged from-0.30 to 0.27 in two biggest sample cities (Urumqi and Karamay) over the last 27 years. These errors were lower than those calculated by using the traditional method (-0.66 � relative error �-0.11). The expansion of urban built-up areas was greater in the northern regions than the southern regions of Xinjiang, as well as was greater in large cities than small and medium-sized cities. The influence of anthropogenic factors on urbanization has continually decreased over the past 27 years, while the influence of geographical environmental factors has increased. Among all influencing factors, fixed asset investment, topographic position index and per capita possession of water resources have the high contributions on urbanization, accounting for 18.75%, 15.62% and 14.18% of the variance of urbanization, respectively. Here, we provided a new method for studying urbanization by using remote sensing data. Our results are helpful for understand the driving factors of urbanization, and they provide guidance for the sustainable economic development of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

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Evaluating the influencing factors of urbanization in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region over the past 27 years based on VIIRS-DNB and DMSP/OLS nightlight imageries

Yang

Gong

2020

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“…Manuscript to be reviewed with the opportunity to reconnect with the natural world, helping to foster a greater awareness of conservation issues (Goddard, Dougill & Benton, 2010;Lepczyk et al, 2017;Bellamy et al, 2017).…”

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Peer Review #1 of "Suitability of native milkweed (Asclepias) species versus cultivars for supporting monarch butterflies and bees in urban gardens (v0.1)"

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Public interest in ecological landscaping and gardening is fueling a robust market for native plants. Most plants available to consumers through the horticulture trade are cultivated forms that have been selected for modified flowers or foliage, compactness, or other ornamental characteristics. Depending on their traits, some native plant cultivars seem to support pollinators, specialist insect folivores, and insect-based vertebrate food webs as effectively as native plant species, whereas others do not. There is particular need for information on whether native cultivars can be as effective as true or "wild-type" native species for supporting specialist native insects of conservation concern. Herein we compared the suitability of native milkweed species and their cultivars for attracting and supporting one such insect, the iconic monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus L.), as well as native bees in urban pollinator gardens. Wild-type Asclepias incarnata L. (swamp milkweed) and Asclepias tuberosa L. (butterfly milkweed) and three additional cultivars of each that vary in stature, floral display, and foliage color were grown in a replicated common garden experiment at a public arboretum. We monitored the plants for colonization by wild monarchs, assessed their suitability for supporting monarch larvae in greenhouse trials, measured their defensive characteristics (leaf trichome density, latex, and cardenolide levels), and compared the proportionate abundance and diversity of bee families and genera visiting their blooms. Significantly more monarch eggs and larvae were found on A. incarnata than A. tuberosa in both years, but within each milkweed group, cultivars were colonized to the same extent as wild types. Despite some differences in defense allocation, all cultivars were as suitable as wild-type milkweeds in supporting monarch larval growth. Five bee families and 17 genera were represented amongst the 2436 total bees sampled from blooms of wild-type milkweeds and their cultivars in the replicated gardens. Bee assemblages of A. incarnata were dominated by Apidae (Bombus, Xylocopa spp., and Apis mellifera), whereas A. tuberosa attracted relatively more

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“…Remotely sensed data can also help to map certain ES when no on-ground information exists (or complement the existing information) and it will facilitate large-scale mapping of ES in the future (e.g. Asner et al 2017, Bellamy et al 2017, Franke et al 2012, Roelens et al 2016. For instance, the Sentinel missions of Copernicus with improved spatial, spectral and temporal characteristics together with long-term historical satellite data can improve mapping and monitoring of ES.…”

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A spatial framework for targeting urban planning for pollinators and people with local stakeholders: A route to healthy, blossoming communities?

Cited by 44 publications

References 108 publications

Evaluating the influencing factors of urbanization in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region over the past 27 years based on VIIRS-DNB and DMSP/OLS nightlight imageries

Evaluating the influencing factors of urbanization in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region over the past 27 years based on VIIRS-DNB and DMSP/OLS nightlight imageries

Peer Review #1 of "Suitability of native milkweed (Asclepias) species versus cultivars for supporting monarch butterflies and bees in urban gardens (v0.1)"

Practical solutions for bottlenecks in ecosystem services mapping

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