Neighboring Green Network and Landscape Metrics Explain Biodiversity within Small Urban Green Areas—A Case Study on Birds

Cities’ green areas are fragmented patches and often confined to smaller sizes than the higher built-up proportions. Such small-sized can be essential components of infrastructure compensate for biodiversity loss. As a proxy biodiversity, we studied birds in nine small area locations Freiburg eight Regensburg Germany. We investigated neighboring networks (distance nearest water body another area) landscape metrics (patch abundance habitat heterogeneity at 1 km radius) that might benefit explain bird richness composition areas. found variations observed species surveyed were better explained solely by Regensburg. In general, it indicates could biodiverse if its spatial distribution considers nearby other areas, allowing similar neighborhood.