The gopher tortoise, Gopherus polyphemus Daudin, is endemic to the southeastern US, where its populations are declining primarily due to habitat destruction. Tortoises are preyed upon by many species, including the red imported fire ant, Solenopsis invicta Buren, a destructive exotic species now common throughout the tortoises’ entire range. We surveyed ants using tuna bait at 154 G. polyphemus...

Facing accelerated urbanization and landscape alteration, cities expand on the territory showing better or worse relationships between built environment green spaces. Based recent literature review, this article discusses wedges, belts greenway planning models in order to evaluate their capability answering contemporary ecological social issues. The presents a conceptual overview of selected th...

To date, most studies on building environments and walking behavior have utilized top-down approaches (e.g., big data or social media data) yet lack bottom-up to verify their findings. Therefore, this study divided urban streets into three main settings (community streets, waterfront paths, greenways) collected from a sample of 411 residents in Chengdu via an online questionnaire examine the im...

Greenways (GWs) can play a key role in the context of policies and strategies for sustainable territorial development because they contribute to integrated plans interventions environmental safeguarding socio-economic growth. As is generally understood, their modern conception, GWs are not only develop soft mobility, but also represent supporting elements new concept use territory, attentive it...

This paper presents a before and after analysis of the impact posted speed limit (PSL) changes on passenger car (FHWA class 2 vehicle) speeds in Portland, Oregon. The study focuses urban roads, comparing sites that underwent PSL 5-mph reduction (treatment sites) where did not change (control sites). Sites with high percentage priority for cyclists (neighborhood greenways) more standard traffic ...

introduction using greenways could be one of the ways which fulfill the improvement of urban streets. greenways, as they are known, improve the pedestrianism and related qualities like climatic comfort, visual complexity and desirable serial visions. the objective of this research is to evaluate the capacity of mâdies[1] network in isfahan to function as greenway. this research aims to assess i...