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infrastructure. Local authorities have the duty of providing the green spaces for the public, but these departments are constantly suffering major budget cuts, making it more difficult for people to admire natural wildlife in the urban sectors and also impairing the local ecosystem. In line with the increasing acceptance of a "messier urban aesthetic", the perennial meadows can be seen as a more realistic alternative to the classic urban lawns as they would also be more cost-efficient to maintain. Factors that managers of urban spaces list as important to regard are:
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maintaining or even improving resiliency. Grasslands and meadows are the predominant plant communities in this climate zone although agriculture has become a big part of the landscape. With meadow as the standard plant community for this climate zone, its importance to the local ecosystem and its resilience as a community is greatly strengthened.
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populations are dropping likely due to more intensive agricultural practices as well as rapid urbanization. Regardless, urban conditions do not seem to affect behavior of pollinators or their interaction with flowers, with the exception of butterflies. In fact, it is likely that cities have become a
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Switzerland is defined has both mild winters and summers with no discernible wet season. Even being mild, this climate zone still has four distinct seasons, much like most other mid-latitude climates. This can be noted in blooming and pollination patterns where trees bloom early
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Recently, urban areas have been thought of as potential biodiversity conservation sites. The shift from urban lawns, that are widely spread habitats in cities, to urban meadows is thought to promote greater refuges for plant and animal communities. Urban lawns require intensive management that puts
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A quadrat is simply a square, typically around one meter, but sometimes bigger or smaller, used to define an area for collecting data. They are often made out of PVC, wood, or rope depending on the application and size. Quadrats are used to provide a randomized sample of a larger area of interest.
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Portugal and Italy is defined by mild but wet winters and hot dry summers. Novel urban meadow communities can be created by taking biennial and perennial species from locally native Mediterranean grasslands and adding native annuals to enhance its aesthetic value while
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Vegetation varies based on climate and hardiness zones. Plants and their communities are also often determined by geographical features such as bodies of water and mountain ranges. Much of the research regarding urban meadows has occurred in several areas of the
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Another area of research concerning the social contextualization of urban green space, including meadows, is perception by children. When investigating how children between 8 and 10 years of age idealized interaction with green space, 'meadow' was one of the most common words with
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the life there at risk of losing their habitat, especially due to the mowing frequency. Cutting that mowing frequency has demonstrated to induce a clear positive effect on the plant community's diversity, which allows the switch from urban lawns to urban meadows.
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which is influenced both by the environmental conditions of a city and the aesthetic and social needs of its residents. This differs from other meadow types as it is a highly engineered, novel, and site-specific designed landscape as well as an example of a
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Chollet, Simon; Brabant, Charlotte; Tessier, Samson; Jung, Vincent (December 2018). "From urban lawns to urban meadows: Reduction of mowing frequency increases plant taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity".
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One solution is to choose a design that highly imitates what the natural meadow condition would be for that specific location, such as at Willem-Alexanderpark shown above. This is consistent with the technique of
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