<p>This perspective presents a new framework to improve ecological contributions to understanding how urban, rural, and wild attributes can co-occur and mix within specific locations, producing configurations that cannot be understood through binary contrasts. We focus on mixed conditions and the processes that sustain dynamic mosaics of mixed urban-rural sites. This framework complements others that avoid the urban-rural binary, and supports integrated social and ecological research across landscapes of mixture.</p>

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The continuum of urbanity: a synthetic concept for research on urban-rural mixtures

  • Steward T. A. Pickett,
  • Weiqi Zhou,
  • Daniel L. Childers,
  • J. Morgan Grove,
  • Winslow D. Hansen,
  • Dexter H. Locke,
  • Christopher Boone,
  • Karen C. Seto,
  • Dawa Zhaxi,
  • Shannon LaDeau,
  • Leonard Nevarez,
  • Robert Freudenberg,
  • Christopher T. Solomon,
  • Elizabeth M. Cook,
  • Russell Urban-Mead,
  • David Maddox,
  • Adam R. Bosch

摘要

This perspective presents a new framework to improve ecological contributions to understanding how urban, rural, and wild attributes can co-occur and mix within specific locations, producing configurations that cannot be understood through binary contrasts. We focus on mixed conditions and the processes that sustain dynamic mosaics of mixed urban-rural sites. This framework complements others that avoid the urban-rural binary, and supports integrated social and ecological research across landscapes of mixture.