title: Human interest meets biodiversity hotspots: A new systematic approach for urban ecosystem conservation.
abstract: Creating a win-win relationship between biodiversity and human well-being is one of the major current challenges for environmental policy. One way to approach this challenge is to identify sites with both high biodiversity and high human interest in urban areas. Here, we propose a new systematic approach to identify such sites by using land prices and biodiversity indexes for butterflies and birds from a nationwide perspective. As a result, we found sites that are valuable to humans and to other organisms, including national red-list species, and they are located in sites with cultural heritages and near seaside. By referencing the habitat features and landscape characteristics of these sites, we can establish high quality environments that provide a benefit to both humans and biodiversity in urban landscapes.
authors.affiliation: Department of General Systems Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Meguro, Tokyo Japan.
authors.forename: Minoru
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kasada
authors.affiliation: Project Team for Analyses of Changes in East Japan Marine Ecosystems Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan.
authors.forename: Misako
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Matsuba
authors.affiliation: Department of Ecosystem Studies, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyoku, Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: Tadashi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Miyashita
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D044822:Biodiversity; D001717:Birds / Q000145:classification / Q000502:physiology*; D002080:Butterflies / Q000145:classification / Q000502:physiology*; D002947:Cities / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods*; D017753:Ecosystem; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D011157:Population Dynamics