TY - JOUR AU - Taizo Uchida, AU - JunHuan Xue, AU - Daisuke Hayasaka, AU - Teruo Arase, AU - William T. Haller, AU - Lyn A. Gettys, PY - 2014/06/28 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - THE RELATION BETWEEN ROAD CRACK VEGETATION AND PLANT BIODIVERSITY IN URBAN LANDSCAPE JF - GEOMATE Journal JA - INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GEOMATE VL - 6 IS - 12 SE - Articles DO - UR - https://geomatejournal.com/geomate/article/view/2932 SP - 885-891 AB - <p>The objective of this study is to collect basic information on vegetation in road crack, especially<br>in curbside crack of road, for evaluating plant biodiversity in urban landscape. A curbside crack in this study was<br>defined as a linear space (under 20 mm in width) between the asphalt pavement and curbstone. The species<br>composition of plants invading curbside cracks was surveyed in 38 plots along the serial National Route, over a<br>total length of 36.5 km, in Fukuoka City in southern Japan. In total, 113 species including native plants (83<br>species, 73.5%), perennial herbs (57 species, 50.4%) and woody plants (13 species, 11.5%) were recorded in<br>curbside cracks. Buried seeds were also obtained from soil in curbside cracks, which means the cracks would<br>possess a potential as seed bank. Incidentally, no significant differences were found in the vegetation<br>characteristics of curbside cracks among land-use types (Kolmogorov-Smirnov Test, P &gt; 0.05). From these<br>results, curbside cracks would be likely to play an important role in offering habitat for plants in urban area.</p> ER -