TY - JOUR A1 - Böhnke, Denise A1 - Krehl, Alice A1 - Moermann, Kai A1 - Volk, Rebekka A1 - Lützkendorf, Thomas A1 - Naber, Elias A1 - Becker, Ronja A1 - Norra, Stefan T1 - Mapping urban green and its ecosystem services at microscale-a methodological approach for climate adaptation and biodiversity JF - Sustainability / Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) N2 - The current awareness of the high importance of urban green leads to a stronger need for tools to comprehensively represent urban green and its benefits. A common scientific approach is the development of urban ecosystem services (UES) based on remote sensing methods at the city or district level. Urban planning, however, requires fine-grained data that match local management practices. Hence, this study linked local biotope and tree mapping methods to the concept of ecosystem services. The methodology was tested in an inner-city district in SW Germany, comparing publicly accessible areas and non-accessible courtyards. The results provide area-specific [m(2)] information on the green inventory at the microscale, whereas derived stock and UES indicators form the basis for comparative analyses regarding climate adaptation and biodiversity. In the case study, there are ten times more micro-scale green spaces in private courtyards than in the public space, as well as twice as many trees. The approach transfers a scientific concept into municipal planning practice, enables the quantitative assessment of urban green at the microscale and illustrates the importance for green stock data in private areas to enhance decision support in urban development. Different aspects concerning data collection and data availability are critically discussed. KW - climate adaptation KW - urban green KW - mapping KW - ecosystem service cascade KW - model KW - surface type-function-concept KW - planning indicators KW - city district KW - level KW - urban planning practice KW - climate change Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3390/su14159029 SN - 2071-1050 VL - 14 IS - 15 PB - MDPI CY - Basel ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kahl, Sandra A1 - Kappel, Christian A1 - Joshi, Jasmin Radha A1 - Lenhard, Michael T1 - Phylogeography of a widely distributed plant species reveals cryptic genetic lineages with parallel phenotypic responses to warming and drought conditions JF - Ecology and Evolution N2 - To predict how widely distributed species will perform under future climate change, it is crucial to understand and reveal their underlying phylogenetics. However, detailed information about plant adaptation and its genetic basis and history remains scarce and especially widely distributed species receive little attention despite their putatively high adaptability. To examine the adaptation potential of a widely distributed species, we sampled the model plant Silene vulgaris across Europe. In a greenhouse experiment, we exposed the offspring of these populations to a climate change scenario for central Europe and revealed the population structure through whole-genome sequencing. Plants were grown under two temperatures (18°C and 21°C) and three precipitation regimes (65, 75, and 90 mm) to measure their response in biomass and fecundity-related traits. To reveal the population genetic structure, ddRAD sequencing was employed for a whole-genome approach. We found three major genetic clusters in S. vulgaris from Europe: one cluster comprising Southern European populations, one cluster of Western European populations, and another cluster containing central European populations. Population genetic diversity decreased with increasing latitude, and a Mantel test revealed significant correlations between FST and geographic distances as well as between genetic and environmental distances. Our trait analysis showed that the genetic clusters significantly differed in biomass-related traits and in the days to flowering. However, half of the traits showed parallel response patterns to the experimental climate change scenario. Due to the differentiated but parallel response patterns, we assume that phenotypic plasticity plays an important role for the adaptation of the widely distributed species S. vulgaris and its intraspecific genetic lineages. KW - climate adaptation KW - ddRAD KW - Silene vulgaris Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8103 SN - 2045-7758 VL - 11 IS - 20 SP - 13986 EP - 14002 PB - John Wiley & Sons, Inc. CY - Hoboken ER -