The Towns of Israel: The Principles of Their Urban Geography

Amiran, David H. K.; Shahar, A.

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“…The study was conducted in Jerusalem, which is the largest city in Israel in terms of its area size (113.4 km 2 ) and its number of residents (729 900 in 2006, compared with only 21 000 people in 1875 and 260 000 people in 1944 (Amiran andShahar 1961, The Central Bureau of Statistics 2006)). The city is located at the transition between the desert and Mediterranean climates.…”

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Accurate prediction of bird species richness patterns in an urban environment using Landsat‐derived NDVI and spectral unmixing

Bino

Levin

Darawshi

et al. 2008

International Journal of Remote Sensing

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Urban landscapes are expanding rapidly and are reshaping the distribution of many animal and plant species. With these changes, the need to understand and to include urban biodiversity patterns in research and management programmes is becoming vital. Recent studies have shown that remote sensing tools can be useful in studies examining biodiversity patterns in natural landscapes. The present study aimed to explore whether remote sensing tools can be applied in biodiversity research in an urban landscape. More specifically, the study examined whether the Landsat-derived Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and linear spectral unmixing of urban land cover can predict bird richness in the city of Jerusalem. Bird richness was sampled in 40 1-ha sites over a range of urban environments in 329 surveys. NDVI and the per cent cover of built-up area were strongly and negatively correlated with each other, and were both very successful in explaining the number of bird species in the study sites. Mean NDVI in each site was positively correlated with the site bird species richness. A hump-shaped relationship between NDVI and species richness was observed (when calculated over increasing spatial scales), with a maximum value (Pearson's R50.87, p,0.001, n540) at a scale of 15 ha. We suggest that remote sensing approaches may provide planners and conservation biologists with an efficient and cost-effective method to study and estimate biodiversity across urban environments that range between densely built-up areas, residential neighbourhoods, urban parks and the peri-urban environment.

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Accurate prediction of bird species richness patterns in an urban environment using Landsat‐derived NDVI and spectral unmixing

Bino

Levin

Darawshi

et al. 2008

International Journal of Remote Sensing

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“…Residential differentiation in Haifa, Israel, is the focus of a recent dissertation by Gradus (1971), while similar dissertations have been done on Rehovot (Berdichevsky, 1974) and Jerusalem (Gosenfeld, 1973). Israel has, in fact, been the locale of a number of spatial studies by Israelis (Ben-Arieh, 1975;Amiran and Shahar, 1961).…”

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Urban Studies in The Middle East

Bonine

1976

Rev. Middle East Stud.

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Urban civilization began in the Middle East and today this area is one of the most urbanized regions in the Third World. Yet, scholarly research in Middle Eastern urban affairs has lagged behind both the growth of urban studies for other areas of the world and the interest in other aspects of Middle Eastern society. The city is a viable focus for research and such fields as urban geography, urban sociology, urban anthropology and urban history have been increasing in importance in their respective disciplines. This interest is only beginning in Middle Eastern studies, although substantial recent progress has been made as this review will show.

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A land without people? The GIScience approach to estimating the population of Ottoman Palestine towards the end of the 19th-century

Zohar

2022

Applied Geography

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The Towns of Israel: The Principles of Their Urban Geography

Cited by 8 publications

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Accurate prediction of bird species richness patterns in an urban environment using Landsat‐derived NDVI and spectral unmixing

Accurate prediction of bird species richness patterns in an urban environment using Landsat‐derived NDVI and spectral unmixing

Urban Studies in The Middle East

A land without people? The GIScience approach to estimating the population of Ottoman Palestine towards the end of the 19th-century

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