Introduction
Landscape characteristics in urban regions are often represented by distinctively broad and complex landscape patterns. A wide variety of biophysical and socioeconomic processes is occurring in the spatially heterogeneous landscapes in an integrated form (Pickett et al., 2008). In particularly, urban ecosystems and other types of natural lands provide multifunctional services that are critical to wildlife communities and human well-being alike (Andersson, 2006). Although vegetative patches can serve as development shock absorbers (Hostetler, 1999), they have been heavily influenced by continuing urbanisation. Furthermore, the new insertion of urban patches drastically modifies the existing landscape structure by creating more
contrasting edges between relatively undisturbed patches and urban areas. Consequently, the predominance of anthropogenic disturbances often results in partial or total loss of ecological areas and longer distances between remnant patches.
IntroductionLandscape characteristics in urban regions are often represented by distinctively broad and complex landscape patterns. A wide variety of biophysical and socioeconomic processes is occurring in the spatially heterogeneous landscapes in an integrated form (Pickett et al., 2008). In particularly, urban ecosystems and other types of natural lands provide multifunctional services that are critical to wildlife communities and human well-being alike (Andersson, 2006). Although vegetative patches can serve as development shock absorbers (Hostetler, 1999), they have been heavily influenced by continuing urbanisation. Furthermore, the new insertion of urban patches drastically modifies the existing landscape structure by creating morecontrasting edges between relatively undisturbed patches and urban areas. Consequently, the predominance of anthropogenic disturbances often results in partial or total loss of ecological areas and longer distances between remnant patches.
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