Patterns in Residential Urban Forest Structure Along a Synthetic Urbanization Gradient
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8377937 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Adam Berland (0000-0003-0473-6405, Miami University), Spero Manson (0000-0001-7697-5339, University of Minnesota), Steven M Manson |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 103 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 749-763 |
| Publication date | 2013-07-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annals of the Association of American Geographers (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0004-5608 • E-ISSN: 1467-8306 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00045608.2013.782598 |
| OpenAlex | W1986901028 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 43 |
The environmental sciences increasingly need to understand the ecological effects of urbanization. This is especially true for the urban forest, a major component of the urban environment that is relied upon to provide ecosystem services such as air pollution removal and stormwater interception. The urbanization gradient is a popular organizing concept for assessing ecological response to varying urbanization intensity, and recent methodological improvements have moved beyond simple distance-based gradients to more sophisticated synthetic gradients based on urbanization indicators such as population density and impervious surface intensity. While these synthetic gradients provide a more complete picture of urbanization than any one indicator alone can provide, it is unclear how synthetic gradients relate to ecological structure. In this study, we collected field data on urban forest structure from 150 residential properties over a 40 km transect in Minnesota’s Twin Cities Metropolitan Area. We then applied factor analysis to a set of nineteen urbanization indicators, and extracted two primary urbanization trends strongly related to distance from the urban core and residential neighborhood density, respectively. We related the synthetic gradient to urban forest structure using polynomial regression models. The synthetic gradient explained nine of the fourteen urban forest structural variables assessed, and improved upon a simple distance-based gradient by explaining patterns in tree canopy cover. Our findings demonstrate the need to consider the effects of secondary urbanization trends on ecological structure. These results support the continued application of synthetic gradient approaches to understanding the relationships between urbanization and ecological structure. \n \nArticle published April 30, 2013 with the following citation: \n \n Adam Berland & Steven M. Manson (2013) Patterns in Residential Urban Forest Structure Along a Synthetic Urbanization Gradient, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 103:4, 749-763, DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2013.782598
Geography · Gradient analysis · Impervious surface · Metropolitan area · Physical geography · Population · Transect · Urban climate · Urban forest · Urban Forestry · Urbanization · Ecology · Environmental Science · Forestry · Land Use and Ecosystem Services · Urban Green Space and Health · Urban Heat Island Mitigation
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| Citations per year | 0.33 |
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| Citation span | 2020 - 2021 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |