Assessment and Spatial Distribution of Urban Ecosystem Functions Applied in Two Czech Cities

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/61989592:15310/23:73621453

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/13/9/5759" target="_blank" >https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/13/9/5759</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app13095759" target="_blank" >10.3390/app13095759</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Assessment and Spatial Distribution of Urban Ecosystem Functions Applied in Two Czech Cities

Original language description

As urban areas expand worldwide, the importance of ecosystem services provided by urban and peri-urban areas (ESs) increases, especially those that mitigate the effects of ongoing climate change. We present a relatively simple method to assess the performance of three ecosystem functions (EFs: evapotranspiration, carbon production, and habitat-and landscape-level biodiversity) in urban and peri-urban areas, indicating their capacity to provide relevant regulative ESs. The method was applied to two Czech foothill cities, Liberec and De?cin, and the results showed that the EFs of both cities were at comparable or even higher levels than the average values for the whole Czech Republic. The peri-urban area showed surprisingly high values for all EFs and habitat connectivity. The urban-rural gradient of EFs also showed higher values for EFs in the peri-urban area than in the adjacent rural (forest and agricultural) landscape. The method can serve as a useful tool to quickly identify valuable urban habitats (strong ESs providers) to support their protection or to identify places with low functional values that should be considered and sorted in urban adaptation strategies to global climate change to support the creation of functional green infrastructure.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10510 - Climatic research

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Applied Sciences-Basel

ISSN

2076-3417

e-ISSN

2076-3417

Volume of the periodical

13

Issue of the periodical within the volume

9

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

20

Pages from-to

5759

UT code for WoS article

000987243700001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85159280228