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#landscapeecology — Public Fediverse posts

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  1. 📰 Curb‑cutting Resistance Helped Reshape Tucson’s Urban Ecology

    🌧️ Tucson: A man illegally diverted rainwater into streetside basins in 1998. Years later, it transformed a desert neighborhood into a shaded, food‑producing micro‑ecosystem.

    🌵 The approach revived Indigenous rain‑harvesting traditions but also caused Tucson to change water management laws to be more nature positive.

    🔗 upworthy.com/in-1998-a-man-ill

    #SolarPunkSunday
    #LandscapeEcology #UrbanRestoration #UrbanEcology #RainwaterHarvesting #NativePlants #Sustainability #Environment

  2. How much does landform position matter for vegetation dynamics across Calgary?

    I explored how ΔNDVI (2025-2024) varies across geomorphon classes (summit, ridge, slope, hollow, valley, etc.) using a large spatial dataset (~194k observations).

    A few key points from the analysis:
    • Non-parametric Kruskal–Wallis test shows statistically significant differences between geomorphons
    • However, the effect size is moderate (ε² ≈ 0.04)
    • Distributions strongly overlap — landform position matters, but it is not a deterministic driver
    • Median ΔNDVI tends to be higher in lower landscape positions (hollows, footslopes, valleys), consistent with moisture and accumulation controls

    #EnvironmentalData #RemoteSensing #NDVI #LandscapeEcology #Geomorphology #DataAnalysis #RStats
    #ReproducibleResearch #Calgary #GreennessOfCalgary #Sentinel2