Browsing by Subject "landscape metrics"
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Aspects influencing the selection of representative urbanization measures to quantify urban-rural gradients
(Springer Science, 2011)The quantification of urban–rural gradients using urbanization measures has become standard practice in many urban ecological studies. Nonetheless, the choice of urbanization measures for a specific urban gradient still ... -
Conservation of fragmented grasslands as part of the urban green infrastructure: how important are species diversity, functional diversity and landscape functionality?
(Springer, 2015)Natural remnants, such as fragmented grasslands form an integral part of the urban green infrastructure in the Grassland biome of South Africa. Nearly 30 % of natural grasslands are transformed with only 1 % formally ... -
To what extent does urbanisation affect fragmented grassland functioning?
(Elsevier, 2015)Urbanisation creates altered environments characterised by increased human habitation, impermeable surfaces, artificial structures, landscape fragmentation, habitat loss, resulting in different resource loss pathways. The ...