Publications by authors named "Ryanna C Henderson"
Glob Chang Biol
March 2015
Article Synopsis
- Urban green spaces like parks and medians offer vital ecosystem services, such as helping to manage food waste through arthropod activity.
- Despite higher biological diversity in parks, arthropods in street medians were found to remove food waste more effectively, possibly due to specific species like the pavement ant thriving in those areas.
- These findings suggest that the types of species present and their specific habitat conditions are more important for urban ecosystem services than sheer biodiversity, highlighting the ecological value even of smaller green spaces.
