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As urbanisation increases globally and the natural environment becomes increasingly fragmented, the importance of urban green spaces for biodiversity conservation grows. In many countries, private gardens are a major component of urban green space and can provide considerable biodiversity benefits. Gardens and adjacent habitats form interconnected networks and a landscape ecology framework is necessary to understand the relationship between the spatial configuration of garden patches and their constituent biodiversity. A scale-dependent tension is apparent in garden management, whereby the individual garden is much smaller than the unit of management needed to retain viable populations. To overcome this, here we suggest mechanisms for encouraging 'wildlife-friendly' management of collections of gardens across scales from the neighbourhood to the city.
Author(s): Goddard MA, Dougill AJ, Benton TG
Publication type: Review
Publication status: Published
Journal: Trends in Ecology and Evolution
Year: 2010
Volume: 25
Issue: 2
Pages: 90-98
Print publication date: 01/02/2010
Online publication date: 14/09/2009
URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169534709002468
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2009.07.016
