Does ecological gardening increase species richness and aesthetic quality of a garden?
Does ecological gardening increase species richness and aesthetic quality of a garden?
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DOI：
10.1016/j.biocon.2012.12.011
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发表时间：
2013-03-01
影响因子：
5.9
通讯作者：
Marty, Thomas
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作者：
Lindemann-Matthies, Petra;Marty, Thomas
私人花园可以为野生物种提供多种多样的栖息地，也为元种群提供了一个有价值的网络。最近，人们试图推广增加与植物和动物相关的本地生物多样性和结构异质性的园林实践。然而，人们对这些做法是否有助于花园的美学质量知之甚少。这项研究是基于对瑞士36个花园业主的调查，他们花园中的物种计数，以及249名瑞士居民的照片问卷，他们对花园的吸引力进行了评价。花园包括从传统的正统（频繁修剪草坪和除草，密集使用农药和化肥）到生态非正统（不经常修剪草坪和除草，不使用农药和化肥）园艺实践的梯度。我们的研究结果清楚地表明，生态质量的科学概念可以与美学质量的文化概念相一致。花园的生态管理越好，里面的物种就越多。花园里的物种越多，对样本种群的吸引力就越大。审美愉悦的花园被公众认为是自然的和物种丰富的，而审美愉悦的花园被认为是无聊的，正常的和物种贫乏的。生态园艺并不被认为比传统园艺更耗时。缺乏实际的专门知识是一个更大的制约因素。受访者对生态园艺持宽容态度，但不希望他们的花园被认为是混乱的。(C)2012爱思唯尔有限公司保留所有权利。
Private gardens can incorporate a diversity of habitats for wild species and also provide a valuable network for meta-populations. Recently, attempts have been made to promote garden practices that increase native biodiversity and structural heterogeneity relevant to plants and animals. However, little is known about whether such practices contribute to the aesthetic quality of gardens. This study was based on a survey of 36 garden owners in Switzerland, a species count in their gardens, and a photo-questionnaire with 249 Swiss residents who rated the attractiveness of the gardens. The gardens included a gradient from conventional orthodox (frequent lawn mowing and weeding, intensive use of pesticides and fertilizers) to ecological unorthodox (infrequent lawn mowing and weeding, no use of pesticides and fertilizers) gardening practices. Our results clearly show that scientific concepts of ecological quality can align with cultural concepts of aesthetic quality. The more ecologically managed a garden, the more species it contained. The more species the garden contained, the more attractive it was to the sample population. Aesthetically pleasing gardens were characterized by the public as natural and species-rich, whereas aesthetically displeasing gardens were characterized as boring, normal, and species-poor. Ecological gardening was not considered to be more time consuming than conventional gardening. A lack of practical know-how was a greater constraint. Respondents were tolerant towards ecological gardening, but would not want their garden to be considered as chaotic. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.