Abstract
In the current context of global urbanization, interdisciplinary research is needed to identify planning and management practices in urban green spaces (UGS) that would enhance both biodiversity and visitors’ well-being. The perception of landscape heterogeneity, a core ecological concept, has been demonstrated to have a positive impact on visitors’ psychological restoration. In order to apply these findings within UGS to planning and management practices, we need to characterize visitors’ perception of landscape heterogeneity. We gathered data on 390 visitors’ perception of landscape heterogeneity. Our results highlighted that visitors perceive landscape heterogeneity through the mixing of different heights of three vegetation strata and flower areas. Planning and management practices should enhance this landscape aspect within UGS to simultaneously promote biodiversity and visitors’ psychological well-being.
Highlights
Javier Cabello, ManuelUrbanization is recognized as one of the most important factors in explaining the current decline in global biodiversity [1,2]
Most visitors (52.6%) frequently visited the urban green spaces (UGS), which sugessts that they had a years old (46.6%), the most common age-group in the average population of Rennes relatively good overview of its entire landscape suggesting that our visitors' sample is
We identified that the mixing of different heights of woodlands, shrubs, herbaceous areas, and flower areas is a landscape aspect within UGS through which visitors perceive landscape heterogeneity
Summary
Javier Cabello, ManuelUrbanization is recognized as one of the most important factors in explaining the current decline in global biodiversity [1,2]. In 2005, the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment [3] conceptualized a new framework for analyzing socio-ecological systems and highlighted that the degradation of ecosystems services often causes significant harm to human well-being. In this context, the importance of urban green spaces (UGS) is becoming clearer as they have been shown to partly maintain biodiversity [4,5]. UGS represent the entire network of parks, forests and other open green spaces in an urban area [6].
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