Adding a mosaic mowing regime to urban lawns is the key to city biodiversity management for pollinators

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Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2024.128452" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2024.128452</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2024.128452" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.ufug.2024.128452</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Adding a mosaic mowing regime to urban lawns is the key to city biodiversity management for pollinators

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

City populations are growing rapidly, with built-up areas occupying ever-larger areas within the cities. One of the last green places in a city is urban lawns. Our study aimed to investigate how lawn management changes can contribute to improving insect pollinator biodiversity at the city scale. Over two years, we studied dozens of urban lawns in Prague (Czech Republic) that were partially left unmown, and we selected three major groups of pollinators: Lepidoptera, Coleoptera and Hymenoptera. This study showed that leaving unmown lawn areas has a strong positive effect on insect biodiversity. The high intensity of lawn flowering through the vegetation season was also crucial. Our research showed that leaving unmown parts of urban lawns is one of the key amendments to maintain or even increase pollinator biodiversity in cities. It also appears to be the best way to attract red-listed species. A significant reducing mowing frequency to achieve a higher flowering intensity should be a positive solution. So-called insect gardening by reducing urban lawn mowing frequency or leaving parts of lawns completely unmown can help not only pollinators but also other animals that find food or shelter in them. This management will also enable the propagation of flowering plants. Additionally, biodiversity measures coincide with reducing evapotranspiration and thus cooling urban heat islands.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Adding a mosaic mowing regime to urban lawns is the key to city biodiversity management for pollinators

Popis výsledku anglicky

City populations are growing rapidly, with built-up areas occupying ever-larger areas within the cities. One of the last green places in a city is urban lawns. Our study aimed to investigate how lawn management changes can contribute to improving insect pollinator biodiversity at the city scale. Over two years, we studied dozens of urban lawns in Prague (Czech Republic) that were partially left unmown, and we selected three major groups of pollinators: Lepidoptera, Coleoptera and Hymenoptera. This study showed that leaving unmown lawn areas has a strong positive effect on insect biodiversity. The high intensity of lawn flowering through the vegetation season was also crucial. Our research showed that leaving unmown parts of urban lawns is one of the key amendments to maintain or even increase pollinator biodiversity in cities. It also appears to be the best way to attract red-listed species. A significant reducing mowing frequency to achieve a higher flowering intensity should be a positive solution. So-called insect gardening by reducing urban lawn mowing frequency or leaving parts of lawns completely unmown can help not only pollinators but also other animals that find food or shelter in them. This management will also enable the propagation of flowering plants. Additionally, biodiversity measures coincide with reducing evapotranspiration and thus cooling urban heat islands.

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J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

10619 - Biodiversity conservation

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2024

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Urban Forestry and Urban Greening

ISSN

1618-8667

e-ISSN

1610-8167

Svazek periodika

99

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

September

Stát vydavatele periodika

DE - Spolková republika Německo

Počet stran výsledku

9

Strana od-do

"Article number: 128452"

Kód UT WoS článku

001285954500001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85199957801