Exploring the relationship between urban green infrastructure connectivity, size and multifunctionality: a systematic review.

IF 3.7 2区环境科学与生态学 Q1 ECOLOGY Landscape Ecology Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-03-10 DOI:10.1007/s10980-025-02069-1

Lei Li, Jeremy Carter

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Context: Urban green infrastructure (GI) multifunctionality is widely valued within the academic literature, and underpins calls from policy makers to enhance and expand GI resources. However, there is a gap in understanding concerning how GI connectivity and size influence GI multifunctionality outcomes.

Objectives: The objectives are to: (1) present the current status of research on urban GI multifunctionality (encompassing ecosystem services and disservices) and the GI traits of connectivity and size; (2) identify relationships between these topics within the literature; (3) provide research insights and present actionable GI planning recommendations based on the findings of the research.

Methods: A systematic review of 139 academic sources (2010-2023) was conducted following the PRISMA guidelines.

Results: Key findings include that multifunctionality themes are more commonly considered within research exploring GI connectivity across urban boundaries than within them, where a wider range of flows of ecosystem functions and associated services (and disservices) are enabled. Also, research predominantly focuses on multiple large GI sites, with limited attention to the multifunctionality of single small GI sites that are commonly found in dense urban areas.

Conclusions: Greater consideration is needed of how the manipulation of GI size and connectivity influence multifunctionality outcomes, whilst also recognising the threat of ecosystem disservices emerging as a result of such actions. Through uncovering gaps in understanding concerning these issues, and highlighting topics benefiting from stronger research foundations, this research can support GI policy, practice and research in realising GI multifunctionality outcomes in urban settings, whilst minimising ecosystem disservices.

Supplementary information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10980-025-02069-1.

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探索城市绿色基础设施连通性、规模和多功能之间的关系：系统回顾。

背景：城市绿色基础设施（GI）的多功能性在学术文献中受到广泛重视，并成为政策制定者加强和扩大GI资源的基础。然而，关于GI连接和大小如何影响GI多功能结果的理解存在差距。目标：目标是：(1)介绍城市地理标志多功能性（包括生态系统服务和损害）和地理标志连通性和规模特征的研究现状；(2)识别文献中这些主题之间的关系；(3)根据研究结果提供研究见解并提出可操作的地理标志规划建议。方法：根据PRISMA指南对139篇学术文献（2010-2023）进行系统综述。结果：主要发现包括，在探索跨越城市边界的地理标志连通性的研究中，多功能性主题更常被考虑，而不是在城市边界内，在城市边界内，生态系统功能和相关服务（和危害）的流动范围更广。此外，研究主要集中在多个大型地理标志站点，而对密集城市地区常见的单个小型地理标志站点的多功能性关注有限。结论：需要更多地考虑GI大小和连通性的操纵如何影响多功能结果，同时也认识到这种行为导致的生态系统损害的威胁。通过揭示对这些问题的理解差距，并强调从更强大的研究基础中受益的主题，本研究可以支持地理标志政策、实践和研究，在城市环境中实现地理标志多功能成果，同时最大限度地减少生态系统损害。补充信息：在线版本包含补充资料，下载地址：10.1007/s10980-025-02069-1。

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Landscape Ecology 环境科学-地球科学综合

CiteScore

8.30

自引率

7.70%

发文量

164

审稿时长

8-16 weeks

期刊介绍： Landscape Ecology is the flagship journal of a well-established and rapidly developing interdisciplinary science that focuses explicitly on the ecological understanding of spatial heterogeneity. Landscape Ecology draws together expertise from both biophysical and socioeconomic sciences to explore basic and applied research questions concerning the ecology, conservation, management, design/planning, and sustainability of landscapes as coupled human-environment systems. Landscape ecology studies are characterized by spatially explicit methods in which spatial attributes and arrangements of landscape elements are directly analyzed and related to ecological processes.