Increased pollinator visitation and taxonomic richness generally led to increases in fruit and seed set for all focal plants.
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We measured fruit and seed set and investigated the effect of within-yard characteristics and adjacent floral resources on plant pollination. We used a 'mobile garden' experimental design, whereby potted plants of cucumber, eggplant, and purple coneflower were brought to 30 residential yards in Chicago, IL, USA, to enable direct assessment of pollination services provided by wild pollinator communities. However, it is unknown how effectively wild pollinators maintain pollination services in small, urban gardens with diverse floral resources. Plantings in residential neighborhoods can support wild pollinators. In addition, it presents relevant projects within processes of green infrastructure, policymaking and decision making on bio economic land uses in a novel way, in the form of green innovation areas.
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This book presents the results of a joint German-Mexican research project in order to enhance the use of vacant inner city spaces as green innovation areas for bio-economic uses and their potentials for implementation in German and Mexican cities. In doing so they support two aspects: sustainable and land conscious settlement planning, and implementing bio-economic (or other entrepreneurial) uses in urban revitalization processes.’Īpplying green innovation areas as a revitalization tool for shrinking cities still needs to prove if it is suitable as a model for future development and revitalization in search of a new quality of life. They aim in particular at connecting the communities’ and the entrepreneurs’ interests by means of long-range land use planning and sustainable land use allocations. GIAs address a number of public, private and civil society actors. The range of uses can be attributed to the area of bio-economy (among others). GIAs are locations for new innovative uses that are not yet specified, yet they are of experimental and innovative character. ‘Green Innovation Areas (GIAs) are a new kind of land use type with the purpose of revitalizing vacant or abandoned spaces.
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Thus, the authors came up with the following definition: One of the first steps in the projects was to define what Green Innovation Areas could or should be. As part of a German-Mexican research collaboration, the project GIAGEM (Green innovation areas in Germany and Mexico) aims at enhancing the use of vacant inner city spaces as green innovation areas for bio economic uses and their potentials for implementation in German and Mexican cities.