Chen, R., Carruthers-Jones, J., Carver, S. orcid.org/0000-0002-4202-8234 et al. (1 more author) (2024) Constructing urban ecological corridors to reflect local species diversity and conservation objectives. Science of The Total Environment, 907. 167987. ISSN 0048-9697
Abstract
Ensuring bird diversity can secure key ecosystem services within cities. Building ecological corridors into urban planning is an effective way to protect urban birds, but existing corridor construction methods often ignore locality and diversity of species, leading to homogenization of corridor construction results and orientation. We proposed a corridor construction model that combines local bird surveys and bird threat levels. After constructing differentiated corridors for each bird species by assessing their habits and flight abilities, we used three weighted scenarios (original, weighted abundance, weighted abundance, and phylogeny) to assess the conservation priorities of birds and overlaid them to derive a comprehensive bird corridor model. Our results show significant differences in conservation priority and corridor pattern among different bird species, thus demonstrating the importance of local bird surveys and knowledge of threat levels in accurate corridor simulations. This study provides differential simulation of corridors for each bird species and the identification of important conservation species, and uses these to extend the theory of ecological corridor planning to urban bird populations. These results can be applied to guide biodiversity management, evaluate green space policies, and provide practical assistance for sustainable urban development and management.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2023 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. This is an author produced version of an article published in [Journal] made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0) in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Ecological corridor; Circuit theory; Bird diversity; Urban planning |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > School of Geography (Leeds) > Centre for Spatial Analysis & Policy (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 27 Oct 2023 11:08 |
Last Modified: | 22 Oct 2024 00:13 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.167987 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:204646 |