@article{Chih-Hao Chen_Walter Den_2017, title={THE VALUE OF GREEN BELTS IN URBAN SPRAWL: A CASE STUDY OD TAICHUNG CITY, TAIWAN}, volume={12}, url={https://geomatejournal.com/geomate/article/view/1252}, abstractNote={<p>The role of green belts is not only to provide the recreation for human activities but also to<br>improve environmental quality and to provide refuges for wildlife under intensified urban development. After<br>the new demarcation of administrative areas, the influx and construction of industrial zones and commercial<br>buildings has caused a major change of the original landscape in the Dadu hill area in Taichung City, Taiwan.<br>The aims of this study are to provide recommendations pertaining the design of ecological corridors to improve<br>the connectivity of the remaining green places, and the assessment of the health of habitat for the developed<br>urban area. We compared the biodiversity (birds, mammals, plantation) and carbon flux in three different<br>suburban areas including a campus, a metropolitan park and an undeveloped woodland in regular disturbance by<br>human and fire. According to the results of habitat similarity, the metropolitan park and campus were grouped<br>with the higher diversity of birds, but the woodland had the higher diversity of plantation and mammals.<br>Seasonal change is the main factor which affects the carbon flux and vegetation growth situation, and the<br>disturbance by human activities and canopy and coverage by plantation are the causes of fluctuations. The<br>habitat assessment which integrated the biodiversity and carbon flux provided another angle to evaluate the<br>greenbelt design comprehensively. However, the quantification of the whole ecosystem service value is a further<br>direction of environment management, especially in green place conserving under the urban sprawl.<br><br></p>}, number={33}, journal={GEOMATE Journal}, author={Chih-Hao Chen and Walter Den}, year={2017}, month={Jan.}, pages={147–152} }