The Early Successional Stage of Avifauna in an Urban Wildlife Habitat Park

Hashimoto, Hiroshi; Nakamura, Susumu; Hasegawa, Minako; Natuhara, Yosihiro; Morimoto, Yukihiro

doi:10.5632/jila.68.559

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“…If one looks into the meaning of size in relation to an isolated patch, avifauna may be an appropriate example for characterization. Our research (Hashimoto et al 2003(Hashimoto et al , 2005a suggests that the great tit, an insect-eating bird species, needs 1-3 ha, whereas the large beetle-and frogeating brown hawk owl needs 3-10 ha. A pair of northern goshawks, which prey on crows, have successfully nested for 4 consecutive years in the Osaka EXPO '70 Park (about 100 ha of forested area) (Inoue et al 2010).…”

Section: Fragmentation and Isolation Of Habitats In Kyotomentioning

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Biodiversity and ecosystem services in urban areas for smart adaptation to climate change: “Do you Kyoto”?

Morimoto

2010

Landscape Ecol Eng

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Kyoto is an old city blessed with beautiful natural and cultural landscapes. With the long history of the various events and responses to them, Kyoto is expected to offer some insight into how to create a sustainable city with resilience relevant to its historical inheritances and biodiversity. In this paper, we attempt to describe some concepts of developments and responses that could mitigate the negative impact of urbanization on its biodiversity and ecosystem services. (1) Modern city planning considering natural amenities as well as old Fengshui geomancy theory could conserve the surrounding mountains. Down-zoning and vistaed view preservation are examples.(2) Inside the city areas, the theory of island biogeography is applicable for biodiversity planning, and the size of the isolated greenery is the most important factor for species richness of all taxonomic groups. However, a single large patch is not always sufficient to conserve as many species as possible. Moreover, the heterogeneity of the environment, which is formed by its design and management, plays an important role in species richness. Japanese gardens and the created wildlife habitat park are good solutions for biodiversity. (3) The nature of rivers and wetland systems has been severely degraded in the urbanization process. However, the excellent Katsura detached palace garden and Oguraike wetland system, which were one-time national monuments with high biodiversity, suggest a smart adaptation to the increasing risk of flooding by climate change: ''Do you Kyoto''?

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Section: Fragmentation and Isolation Of Habitats In Kyotomentioning

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Biodiversity and ecosystem services in urban areas for smart adaptation to climate change: “Do you Kyoto”?

Morimoto

2010

Landscape Ecol Eng

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“…Students and citizen volunteers have continuously monitored living things in the garden, such as plants, fungi, insects, and birds. The monitoring results of woody plants (Tabata et al 2005), ferns (Murakami et al 2005), fungi (Shimono et al 2000(Shimono et al , 2001, and birds (Hashimoto et al 2005) were reported. We report the changes in herbaceous plants in the habitat garden for 9 years.…”

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Changes in herbaceous plants in an urban habitat garden in Kyoto city, Japan, 9 years after construction

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Kitagawa²,

Nakamura

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To understand the characteristics and problems of artificial urban ecological environments, we investigated the changes in herbaceous plants in an urban habitat garden for 9 years after construction and compared the results with 15 remnant semi-natural green spaces in Kyoto city, Japan. The area of the habitat garden is 0.6 ha and it was constructed approximately 3 km from the nearest mountains in 1996. From 1996 to 2004, 301 unplanted species, including 218 native species and 83 alien species, were recorded. Most newly recorded species were recorded in 1998 and the timing of colonization was different from ferns. The species turnover rate per year decreased from 30.8% in 1998 to 18.5% in 2004. This indicates that established species in the habitat garden have been gradually determined. In the species recorded in the habitat garden in 2004, the percentage of high-temperature species, which were relatively departed from the nested pattern of species composition for the 15 green spaces, was significantly high. It was considered that herbaceous plant succession in the habitat garden was at an early stage, even though it was 9 years ago since construction. Buried seeds and various environments are likely to contribute to higher species richness in the habitat garden as compared to remnant green spaces of approximately the same area. On the other hand, the high percentage of alien species and the low percentages of forest and forest edge species in the habitat garden indicate the problems of a habitat garden constructed in the center of a city.

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Influence of a Biotope Built in the Metropolitan Area on the Animals Which Appeared, and Problems Which the Biotope Holds Now

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Yakushiji²

2012

AIJ J. Technol. Des.

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The Early Successional Stage of Avifauna in an Urban Wildlife Habitat Park

Cited by 4 publications

References 3 publications

Biodiversity and ecosystem services in urban areas for smart adaptation to climate change: “Do you Kyoto”?

Biodiversity and ecosystem services in urban areas for smart adaptation to climate change: “Do you Kyoto”?

Changes in herbaceous plants in an urban habitat garden in Kyoto city, Japan, 9 years after construction

Influence of a Biotope Built in the Metropolitan Area on the Animals Which Appeared, and Problems Which the Biotope Holds Now

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