TY - JOUR
T1 - Luxury and legacy effects on urban biodiversity, vegetation cover and ecosystem services
AU - Aznarez, Celina
AU - Svenning, Jens-Christian
AU - Pacheco, Juan Pablo
AU - Have Kallesøe, Frederik
AU - Baró, Francesc
AU - Pascual, Unai
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to thank the Environmental Studies Centre (CEA) from the Vitoria-Gasteiz council, especially Asier Sarasua and Aitor Albaina for their assistance and collaboration with data collection and for providing valuable information from the case study. We thank German Taveira for his invaluable technical assistance to run the supervised LULC classification in GEE. C.A. was supported by the Doctoral INPhINIT–INCOMING programme, fellowship code (LCF/BQ/DI20/11780004), from the “La Caixa” Foundation (ID 100010434). JCS considers this work a contribution to Center for Ecological Dynamics in a Novel Biosphere (ECONOVO), funded by Danish National Research Foundation (grant DNRF173) and his VILLUM Investigator project “Biodiversity Dynamics in a Changing World”, funded by VILLUM FONDEN (grant 16549). C.A. and UP acknowledge the Maria de Maeztu excellence accreditation 2023-2026 (Ref. CEX2021-001201-M) which provided funding via MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033. This research contributes to the ICTA-UAB “María de Maeztu” Programme for Units of Excellence of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (CEX2019-000940-M). F.B. considers this research a contribution to the project “Collaborative Learning in Research, Information-sharing and Governance on How Urban tree-based solutions support Sino-European urban futures” (CLEARING HOUSE) funded by the European Commission (call H2020-SC5-2018-2).
Funding Information:
We would like to thank the Environmental Studies Centre (CEA) from the Vitoria-Gasteiz council, especially Asier Sarasua and Aitor Albaina for their assistance and collaboration with data collection and for providing valuable information from the case study. We thank German Taveira for his invaluable technical assistance to run the supervised LULC classification in GEE. C.A. was supported by the Doctoral INPhINIT–INCOMING programme, fellowship code (LCF/BQ/DI20/11780004), from the “La Caixa” Foundation (ID 100010434). JCS considers this work a contribution to Center for Ecological Dynamics in a Novel Biosphere (ECONOVO), funded by Danish National Research Foundation (grant DNRF173) and his VILLUM Investigator project “Biodiversity Dynamics in a Changing World”, funded by VILLUM FONDEN (grant 16549). C.A. and UP acknowledge the Maria de Maeztu excellence accreditation 2023-2026 (Ref. CEX2021-001201-M) which provided funding via MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033. This research contributes to the ICTA-UAB “María de Maeztu” Programme for Units of Excellence of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (CEX2019-000940-M). F.B. considers this research a contribution to the project “Collaborative Learning in Research, Information-sharing and Governance on How Urban tree-based solutions support Sino-European urban futures” (CLEARING HOUSE) funded by the European Commission (call H2020-SC5-2018-2).
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PY - 2023/12
Y1 - 2023/12
N2 - Socio-economic and historical drivers shape urban nature distribution and characteristics, as luxury (wealth-related) and legacy (historical management) effects. Using remote sensing and census data on biodiversity and socio-economic indicators, we examined these effects on urban biodiversity and vegetation cover in Vitoria-Gasteiz (Basque Country). We also tested the luxury and legacy hypotheses on regulating ecosystem services (ES) and explored predictor interactions. Higher educational attainment positively correlated with urban biodiversity, confirming the luxury effect, but had no effect on vegetation cover or ES. Older areas had higher vegetation cover and ES evidencing a legacy effect with an inverse response on biodiversity, attributable to more recent management strategies promoting biodiversity in green spaces. Habitat quality amplified the luxury effect, while population density strengthened the legacy effect. Our results suggest that urban biodiversity is mainly driven by socio-economic factors, while vegetation cover and ES are influenced by management legacies in interaction with population density.
AB - Socio-economic and historical drivers shape urban nature distribution and characteristics, as luxury (wealth-related) and legacy (historical management) effects. Using remote sensing and census data on biodiversity and socio-economic indicators, we examined these effects on urban biodiversity and vegetation cover in Vitoria-Gasteiz (Basque Country). We also tested the luxury and legacy hypotheses on regulating ecosystem services (ES) and explored predictor interactions. Higher educational attainment positively correlated with urban biodiversity, confirming the luxury effect, but had no effect on vegetation cover or ES. Older areas had higher vegetation cover and ES evidencing a legacy effect with an inverse response on biodiversity, attributable to more recent management strategies promoting biodiversity in green spaces. Habitat quality amplified the luxury effect, while population density strengthened the legacy effect. Our results suggest that urban biodiversity is mainly driven by socio-economic factors, while vegetation cover and ES are influenced by management legacies in interaction with population density.
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U2 - 10.1038/s42949-023-00128-7
DO - 10.1038/s42949-023-00128-7
M3 - Article
SN - 2661-8001
VL - 3
JO - npj Urban Sustainability
JF - npj Urban Sustainability
IS - 1
M1 - 47
ER -