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https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-23219| Publication type: | Book part |
| Type of review: | Editorial review |
| Title: | A plant sociological procedure for the ecological design and enhancement of urban green infrastructure |
| Authors: | Catalano, Chiara Pasta, Salvatore Guarino, Riccardo |
| et. al: | No |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-030-75929-2_3 10.21256/zhaw-23219 |
| Published in: | Urban Services to Ecosystems |
| Editors of the parent work: | Catalano, Chiara Andreucci, Maria Beatrice Guarino, Riccardo Bretzel, Francesca Leone, Manfredi Pasta, Salvatore |
| Page(s): | 31 |
| Pages to: | 60 |
| Issue Date: | 2021 |
| Series: | Future City |
| Series volume: | 17 |
| Publisher / Ed. Institution: | Springer |
| Publisher / Ed. Institution: | Cham |
| ISBN: | 978-3-030-75928-5 978-3-030-75929-2 |
| Language: | English |
| Subjects: | Green roof; Urban biodiversity; Species introduction; Urban meadow; Data mining; Vegetation |
| Subject (DDC): | 580: Plants (Botany) |
| Abstract: | Urban green infrastructure could represent an important mean for environmental mitigation, if designed according to the principles of restoration ecology. Moreover, if suitably executed, managed and sized, they may be assimilated to meta-populations of natural habitats, deserving to be included in the biodiversity monitoring networks. In this chapter, we combined automatised and expert opinion-based procedures in order to select the vascular plant assemblages to populate different microhabitats (differing in terms of light and moisture) co-occurring on an existing green roof in Zurich (Switzerland). Our results lead to identify three main plant species groups, which prove to be the most suitable for the target roof. These guilds belong to mesoxeric perennial grasslands (Festuco-Brometea), nitrophilous ephemeral communities (Stellarietea mediae) and drought-tolerant pioneer species linked to nutrient-poor soils (Koelerio-Corynephoretea). Some ruderal and stress-tolerant species referred to the class Artemisietea vulgaris appear to fit well with local roof characteristics, too. Inspired by plant sociology, this method also considers conservation issues, analysing whether the plants selected through our procedure were characteristic of habitats of conservation interest according to Swiss and European laws and directives. Selecting plant species with different life cycles and life traits may lead to higher plant species richness, which in turn may improve the functional complexity and the ecosystem services provided by green roofs and green infrastructure in general. |
| URI: | https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/23219 |
| Fulltext version: | Published version |
| License (according to publishing contract): | CC BY 4.0: Attribution 4.0 International |
| Departement: | Life Sciences and Facility Management |
| Organisational Unit: | Institute of Natural Resource Sciences (IUNR) |
| Appears in collections: | Publikationen Life Sciences und Facility Management |
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Catalano, C., Pasta, S., & Guarino, R. (2021). A plant sociological procedure for the ecological design and enhancement of urban green infrastructure. In C. Catalano, M. B. Andreucci, R. Guarino, F. Bretzel, M. Leone, & S. Pasta (Eds.), Urban Services to Ecosystems (pp. 31–60). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75929-2_3
Catalano, C., Pasta, S. and Guarino, R. (2021) ‘A plant sociological procedure for the ecological design and enhancement of urban green infrastructure’, in C. Catalano et al. (eds) Urban Services to Ecosystems. Cham: Springer, pp. 31–60. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75929-2_3.
C. Catalano, S. Pasta, and R. Guarino, “A plant sociological procedure for the ecological design and enhancement of urban green infrastructure,” in Urban Services to Ecosystems, C. Catalano, M. B. Andreucci, R. Guarino, F. Bretzel, M. Leone, and S. Pasta, Eds. Cham: Springer, 2021, pp. 31–60. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-75929-2_3.
CATALANO, Chiara, Salvatore PASTA und Riccardo GUARINO, 2021. A plant sociological procedure for the ecological design and enhancement of urban green infrastructure. In: Chiara CATALANO, Maria Beatrice ANDREUCCI, Riccardo GUARINO, Francesca BRETZEL, Manfredi LEONE und Salvatore PASTA (Hrsg.), Urban Services to Ecosystems. Cham: Springer. S. 31–60. ISBN 978-3-030-75928-5
Catalano, Chiara, Salvatore Pasta, and Riccardo Guarino. 2021. “A Plant Sociological Procedure for the Ecological Design and Enhancement of Urban Green Infrastructure.” In Urban Services to Ecosystems, edited by Chiara Catalano, Maria Beatrice Andreucci, Riccardo Guarino, Francesca Bretzel, Manfredi Leone, and Salvatore Pasta, 31–60. Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75929-2_3.
Catalano, Chiara, et al. “A Plant Sociological Procedure for the Ecological Design and Enhancement of Urban Green Infrastructure.” Urban Services to Ecosystems, edited by Chiara Catalano et al., Springer, 2021, pp. 31–60, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75929-2_3.
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