How to measure the urban-wildland ecotone: Redefining ´peri-urban´ areas
The array of definitions regarding ?peri-urban? areas do not allow the precise measurement of its boundaries in a city. In this study, I developed an easy- to-use method to calculate the area where urban and adjacent non-urban systems intermingle. To validate that such areas were ecologically meaning...
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| description | The array of definitions regarding ?peri-urban? areas do not allow the precise measurement of its boundaries in a city. In this study, I developed an easy- to-use method to calculate the area where urban and adjacent non-urban systems intermingle. To validate that such areas were ecologically meaningful, I com- pared bird community species-richness, abundance, and composition from ?intra-? and ?peri-urban? areas in a medium-sized neotropical city. Results show that ?peri- urban? areas represent an important ecological interaction area for birds, and differ greatly from ?intra-urban? areas. The proposed method is robust and useful for a great variety of amoeboid-growing cities. |
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| spelling | repo-1005-1862017-12-06T19:30:27Z How to measure the urban-wildland ecotone: Redefining ´peri-urban´ areas Ian MacGregor_Fors Ecological Research 2010 info:eu-repo/semantics/article The array of definitions regarding ?peri-urban? areas do not allow the precise measurement of its boundaries in a city. In this study, I developed an easy- to-use method to calculate the area where urban and adjacent non-urban systems intermingle. To validate that such areas were ecologically meaningful, I com- pared bird community species-richness, abundance, and composition from ?intra-? and ?peri-urban? areas in a medium-sized neotropical city. Results show that ?peri- urban? areas represent an important ecological interaction area for birds, and differ greatly from ?intra-urban? areas. The proposed method is robust and useful for a great variety of amoeboid-growing cities. info:eu-repo/classification/cti/2 info:eu-repo/classification/cti/2 http://inecol.repositorioinstitucional.mx/jspui/handle/1005/186 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess citation:MacGregor-Fors I. 2010. How to measure the urban-wildland ecotone: Redefining ´peri-urban´ areas. Ecological Research. 25: 883-887 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 application/pdf |
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| title | How to measure the urban-wildland ecotone: Redefining ´peri-urban´ areas |
| title_full | How to measure the urban-wildland ecotone: Redefining ´peri-urban´ areas |
| title_fullStr | How to measure the urban-wildland ecotone: Redefining ´peri-urban´ areas |
| title_full_unstemmed | How to measure the urban-wildland ecotone: Redefining ´peri-urban´ areas |
| title_short | How to measure the urban-wildland ecotone: Redefining ´peri-urban´ areas |
| title_sort | how to measure the urban wildland ecotone redefining ´peri urban´ areas |
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