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A Method to Quantitatively Classify Residential Urban Landscapes in a Desert Environment | |
Al-Ajlouni, Malik G.1; VanLeeuwen, Dawn M.2; DeMers, Michael N.3; St Hilaire, Rolston1 | |
通讯作者 | St Hilaire, Rolston |
会议名称 | Workshop Mechanized Harvest of Southern Highbush Blueberries for the Fresh Market |
会议日期 | AUG 02-02, 2012 |
会议地点 | Miami, FL |
英文摘要 | The apparent heterogeneity of human-generated materials in residential urban landscapes sustains concerns that the quantitative classification of urban residential landscapes is impossible. The objective of this research was to develop a method to quantitatively classify urban residential landscapes in a desert environment. Using a purposive sampling procedure, we studied the landscapable area around each of 54 residential homes in Las Cruces, NM. All materials in the landscape were identified, measured, and categorized. Using 30% as the cutoff to indicate that a material was dominant in the landscape, we classified 93% of all landscapes into nine common landscape types. Mulch-dominant landscapes were the most common, and landscape types differed between front- and backyards. Shrubs did not feature prominently in any of the common landscape types. Our classification method clearly identifies multiple landscape types, and for the first time, provides quantitative evidence that landscape types are distributed differently in front- and backyard landscapes in the desert environment of Las Cruces. Information on common landscape types will be valuable to landscape horticulturists wanting to craft water conservation plans that are landscape specific if the common landscape type can be linked to a landscape water budget. |
英文关键词 | landscape layers landscape type turf urban land cover |
来源出版物 | HORTTECHNOLOGY |
ISSN | 1063-0198 |
EISSN | 1943-7714 |
出版年 | 2013 |
卷号 | 23 |
期号 | 4 |
页码 | 474-481 |
出版者 | AMER SOC HORTICULTURAL SCIENCE |
类型 | Article;Proceedings Paper |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | USA |
收录类别 | SCI-E ; CPCI-S |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000333481000016 |
WOS关键词 | WATER CONSERVATION ; NEW-MEXICO ; PREFERENCES ; MULCHES ; CHOICES ; COVER ; CITY |
WOS类目 | Horticulture |
WOS研究方向 | Agriculture |
资源类型 | 会议论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/302331 |
作者单位 | 1.New Mexico State Univ, Dept Plant & Environm Sci, Las Cruces, NM 88003 USA; 2.New Mexico State Univ, Agr Biometr Serv, Las Cruces, NM 88003 USA; 3.New Mexico State Univ, Dept Geog, Las Cruces, NM 88003 USA |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Al-Ajlouni, Malik G.,VanLeeuwen, Dawn M.,DeMers, Michael N.,et al. A Method to Quantitatively Classify Residential Urban Landscapes in a Desert Environment[C]:AMER SOC HORTICULTURAL SCIENCE,2013:474-481. |
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