Urban vegetation change after a hundred years in a tropical city (San José de Costa Rica)
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RBT54182022-06-06T18:38:15Z Urban vegetation change after a hundred years in a tropical city (San José de Costa Rica) Urban vegetation change after a hundred years in a tropical city (San José de Costa Rica) Monge Nájera, Julián Pérez Gómez, Gabriela Flora urbana efectos de la urbanización paisaje de ciudad comparación fotográfica lista de especies Urban flora effects of urbanization city landscape photographic comparison species list Urban vegetation is of key importance because a large proportion of the human population lives in cities. Nevertheless, urban vegetation is understudied outside central Europe and particularly, little is known about the flora of tropical Asian, African and Latin American cities. We present an estimate of how the vegetation has changed in the city of San José, Costa Rica, after about one century, with the repeat photography technique (based on a collection of 19th and early 20th century photographs by José Fidel Tristán and others) and with data from the Costa Rican National Herbarium. We found little vegetation change in the landscape of San José during the 20th century, where a total of 95 families and 458 species were collected in the late 19th and early 20th century. The families with most species were Asteraceae, Fabaceae, Poaceae, Lamiaceae, Euphorbiaceae, Solanaceae, Cyperaceae, Acanthaceae, Malvaceae, Piperaceae and Verbenaceae. Similar results have been found in Europe, where the number of plant species often is stable for long periods even when the individual species vary. Universidad de Costa Rica 2010-12-01 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Article Text application/pdf https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rbt/article/view/5418 10.15517/rbt.v58i4.5418 Revista de Biología Tropical; Vol. 58 No. 4 (2010): Volume 58 – Regular number 4 – December 2010; 1367–1386 Revista de Biología Tropical; Vol. 58 Núm. 4 (2010): Volumen 58 – Número regular 4 – Diciembre 2010; 1367–1386 Revista Biología Tropical; Vol. 58 N.º 4 (2010): Volume 58 – Regular number 4 – December 2010; 1367–1386 2215-2075 0034-7744 10.15517/rbt.v58i4 eng https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rbt/article/view/5418/5164 Copyright (c) 2010 Revista de Biología Tropical http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
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Monge Nájera, Julián Pérez Gómez, Gabriela |
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Monge Nájera, Julián Pérez Gómez, Gabriela |
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Monge Nájera, Julián |
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Urban vegetation change after a hundred years in a tropical city (San José de Costa Rica) |
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Urban vegetation change after a hundred years in a tropical city (San José de Costa Rica) |
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Universidad de Costa Rica |
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