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| En las ciudades, las áreas verdes urbanas representan sistemas ambientales que juegan un papel importante para los citadinos, desempeñando una doble función, por un lado contribuyen al aspecto social, siendo espacios públicos de recreación, ocio y democratizadores, además de ser un importante factor en el ámbito ecológico ya que funcionan como “pulmones” para las ciudades. La calidad de vida de los citadinos esta sustentada en gran parte en sus áreas verdes urbanas, donde los árboles son elementos que aportan múltiples beneficios, desgraciadamente el número de árboles se ha disminuido por diversos factores bióticos y abióticos que pueden alterar la salud de estos espacios, un ejemplo de ello son los muérdagos, que son plantas parasitas o hemiparásitas que... |
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Palavras-chave: Bosques urbanos; Manejo y control; Cladoclea loniceroides; Struthanthus interruptus; Urban forests; Management and control; Fitopatología; Maestría. |
| Ano: 2014 |
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10521/2368 |
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| Green areas, also known as green infrastructure or urban vegetation, are vital to urbanites for their critical roles in mitigating urban heat island effects and climate change and for their provision of multiple ecosystem services and aesthetics. Here, I provide a high spatial resolution snapshot of the green cover distribution of the city of San Juan, Puerto Rico, by incorporating the use of morphological spatial pattern analysis (MSPA) as a tool to describe the spatial pattern and connectivity of the city’s urban green areas. Analysis of a previously developed IKONOS 4-m spatial resolution classification of the city of San Juan from 2002 revealed a larger area of vegetation (green areas or green infrastructure) than previously estimated by... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Insight |
Palavras-chave: Green areas; Green infrastructure; Morphological spatial pattern analysis (MSPA); Spatial pattern analysis; Urban forests; Urban green area characterization; Urban vegetation. |
| Ano: 2014 |
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| BenDor, Todd; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; bendor@unc.edu; Shoemaker, Douglas A.; North Carolina State University; douglas.shoemaker@gmail.com; Thill, Jean-Claude; University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Jean-Claude.Thill@uncc.edu; Dorning, Monica A.; North Carolina State University; madorning@gmail.com; Meentemeyer, Ross K.; North Carolina State University; ross_meentemeyer@ncsu.edu. |
| We examined how social-ecological factors in the land-change decision-making process influenced neighboring decisions and trajectories of alternative landscape ecologies. We decomposed individual landowner decisions to conserve or develop forests in the rapidly growing Charlotte, North Carolina, U.S. region, exposing and quantifying the effects of forest quality, and social and cultural dynamics. We tested the hypothesis that the intrinsic value of forest resources, e.g., cultural attachment to land, influence woodland owners’ propensity to sell. Data were collected from a sample of urban, nonindustrial private forest (U-NIPF) owners using an individualized survey design that spatially matched land-owner responses to the ecological and timber... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Insight |
Palavras-chave: Forest persistence; Land-use change; Social-ecological feedbacks; Tax policy; Urban forests; Urbanization. |
| Ano: 2014 |
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