How do the surrounding areas of national parks work in the context of landscape fragmentation? A case study of 159 protected areas selected in 11 EU countries

Kubacka, Marta; Żywica, Patryk; Subirós, Josep Vila i; Bródka, Sylwia; Macias, Andrzej

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2021.105910

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“…This observation is not significant in our research, but it can provide suggestions. For example, in many cases in the immediate zone bordering a park, buffer zones are created to maintain ecological processes and the stability of ecosystems to preserve biodiversity (Kubacka et al 2022).…”

Section: Effects Of Exterior Characteristics On Species Diversitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding the drivers of woody plant diversity in urban parks in a snow climate city of China

Zhang

et al. 2022

J. For. Res.

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Urban parks are an important part of urban ecosystems and play an important role in biodiversity conservation. However, it is still unclear how park characteristics affect plant diversity which could hinder the conservation of urban biodiversity due to the ineffective design of urban parks. The diversity of woody plants in 33 parks of Changchun, China, was measured with plot measurements and linked with urban park characteristics (e.g., size and age of the park) to uncover the relationship between them. The results show that urban woody plant species were abundant, with 98 species belonging to 51 genera and 26 families in the snow climate city of Changchun. The variation in woody plant diversity was largely explained by internal patch characteristics (e.g., size, age, shape), and external factors surrounding the park (e.g., land use type and socioeconomic level) accounted for only 16.0% in our study. For internal patch characteristics, older urban parks with larger areas demonstrated a richer level of plant diversity and increased nonlinearly with increasing park area. The threshold size significantly affecting plant diversity variation was approximately 30 ha. Plant diversity had positive linear relationships with the ages of urban parks, supporting the legacy effect. In addition, woody plant diversity nonlinearly decreased with increasing park shape index, which suggested that the plant diversity could also be increased by optimizing the park shape. Regarding the external factors surrounding parks, the spatial distribution of woody plant diversity varied greatly from the urban center to the suburbs. House prices around the park had positive linear relationships with woody plant diversity in parks, supporting the luxury effect. However, building and road proportions, and green space proportion had no relationship with plant diversity in parks. This study can provide a robust reference for enriching plant diversity in urban parks, thus improving the development of urban sustainable cities.

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Section: Effects Of Exterior Characteristics On Species Diversitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding the drivers of woody plant diversity in urban parks in a snow climate city of China

Zhang

et al. 2022

J. For. Res.

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“…This area has the most developed road network, the highest population density and the highest proportion of construction land among the four functional areas of Dongying City. This area should combine the needs of urban development, learn from the construction of country parks in European countries, organically combine the expansion of urban construction land with the ecological improvement of land, and explore the coordination and unity of land and urban development [ 43 ], Moreover, it should carry out an urbanization-led land consolidation model, carry out surveys and consolidation activities on the status of urban land use such as unused land and hollow villages, and coordinate urban and rural development and intensive use of land resources.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Functional Zoning and Path Selection of Land Comprehensive Consolidation Based on Grey Constellation Clustering: A Case Study of Dongying City, China

Lin

Chen

2022

IJERPH

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The functional zoning of land comprehensive consolidation and the selection of consolidation paths are the key content of the current land and space planning, and it is also an important measure to achieve regional sustainable development. At present, the research system on land comprehensive consolidation is not yet mature. The previous research area is relatively small and not representative, and an effective method system has not been formed. Research on the selection of functional zoning and a consolidation path is also relatively scarce. There is an urgent need to construct the theory and method system of land comprehensive consolidation functional zoning and consolidation path selection. Taking Dongying City in China as an example, this paper constructs a zoning index system from four aspects including natural conditions, location advantages, social economy and land use. The entropy method is used to determine the weights, and GIS spatial data visualization is used to analyze the spatial distribution characteristics of the index system. Based on the analysis, the grey constellation clustering method is used to divide the study area into four types of land comprehensive consolidation functional areas, and the results of functional zoning are adjusted according to the ranking of comprehensive index values, the principle of maximum similarity, and the continuity of natural space. The research results show that: ① There are 10 functional zonings for urban development and ecological protection land consolidation, and the main consolidation path should be the ecological country park consolidation model, which can effectively serve the urban ecological construction. ② There are nine functional zonings for rural development and cultivated land conservation consolidation, and their consolidation path should be based on a comprehensive rural improvement model that enhances the quality of the village and the development, utilization and protection of cultivated land resources. ③ There are 18 functional zonings for cultivated land improvement and ecological protection land consolidation, and the main consolidation path should focus on the cultivated land ecological improvement mode that emphasizes the quality of cultivated land and the improvement of regional ecological functions. ④ There are four functional zonings for ecological conservation and fallow recuperative land consolidation, and their main consolidation path should be the land ecological restoration and improvement model of construction land reclamation, cultivated land ecological conservation, and conversion of farmland to forest and grassland. The research results can provide references for Dongying City to formulate land and space planning, and can be extended to the design of comprehensive land remediation projects in other regions. It is of great significance to promote regional sustainable and scientific development.

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“…In accordance with previous studies (Ma et al, 2019;Wu and Lu, 2021;Fu et al, 2022), patch density (PD), largest patch index (LPI), and landscape shape index (LSI) are selected and calculated using the Fragstats 4.2 software. Kubacka et al (2022) have also proved there are no strong relationships among PD, LPI, and LSI, which can overcome multivariable multicollinearity in terms of different indicators and provide reliable information to explore the land use dominant morphology. The definitions and calculation formulas of the selected landscape metrics are listed in Table 1.…”

Section: Land Use Morphology Indicesmentioning

confidence: 97%

Spatiotemporal analysis of land use changes and their trade-offs on the northern slope of the Tianshan Mountains, China

2022

Front. Ecol. Evol.

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The unprecedented urbanization recently has inevitably intensified the changes in land use morphology. However, current studies on land use primarily analyze a single morphology, ignoring the relationships between different land use morphologies. Taking the northern slope of the Tianshan Mountains (NSTM) as the study area, this article quantifies the spatiotemporal pattern of land use change, and estimates trade-offs and synergies between dominant (patch density, largest patch index, and landscape shape index) and recessive (land use efficiency, land use intensity, and agricultural non-point source pollution) morphologies to fully understand the dynamic characteristics of land use. Results showed bare areas and grassland were always predominant land use types, and land use change from 1990 to 2020 was characterized by the increase of impervious surfaces and the decrease of bare areas. The strongest trade-off was found between largest patch index and land use intensity, while the synergy between landscape shape index and land use intensity was strongest. There are significant disparities in terms of temporal and spatial patterns of trade-offs/synergies. The correlation coefficients in different study periods were much smaller than their estimations in the whole region, and the trade-offs/synergies in the eastern NSTM were basically identical with the whole relationships. The findings reveal the interactions among various land use characteristics, and provide significant references for coordinated land management and regional high-quality development.

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How do the surrounding areas of national parks work in the context of landscape fragmentation? A case study of 159 protected areas selected in 11 EU countries

Cited by 36 publications

References 57 publications

Understanding the drivers of woody plant diversity in urban parks in a snow climate city of China

Understanding the drivers of woody plant diversity in urban parks in a snow climate city of China

Functional Zoning and Path Selection of Land Comprehensive Consolidation Based on Grey Constellation Clustering: A Case Study of Dongying City, China

Spatiotemporal analysis of land use changes and their trade-offs on the northern slope of the Tianshan Mountains, China

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