Urban vegetation change after a hundred years in a tropical city (San José de Costa Rica)

Monge Nájera, Julián; Pérez Gómez, Gabriela

dc.creator	Monge Nájera, Julián
dc.creator	Pérez Gómez, Gabriela
dc.date	2010-06-01
dc.date.accessioned	2016-05-03T15:28:23Z
dc.date.available	2016-05-03T15:28:23Z
dc.identifier	http://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rbt/article/view/5418
dc.identifier	10.15517/rbt.v58i4.5418
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10669/26413
dc.description	Urban vegetation is of key importance because a large proportion of the human population lives in cities. Nevertheless, urban vegetation is understudied outside central Europe and particularly, little is known about the flora of tropical Asian, African and Latin American cities. We present an estimate of how the vegetation has changed in the city of San José, Costa Rica, after about one century, with the repeat photography technique (based on a collection of 19th and early 20th century photographs by José Fidel Tristán and others) and with data from the Costa Rican National Herbarium. We found little vegetation change in the landscape of San José during the 20th century, where a total of 95 families and 458 species were collected in the late 19th and early 20th century. The families with most species were Asteraceae, Fabaceae, Poaceae, Lamiaceae, Euphorbiaceae, Solanaceae, Cyperaceae, Acanthaceae, Malvaceae, Piperaceae and Verbenaceae. Similar results have been found in Europe, where the number of plant species often is stable for long periods even when the individual species vary.	en-US
dc.format	application/pdf
dc.language	eng
dc.publisher	Universidad de Costa Rica	en-US
dc.rights	Copyright (c) 2014 International Journal of Tropical Biology and Conservation	en-US
dc.source	Revista de Biología Tropical/International Journal of Tropical Biology and Conservation; Vol. 58 (4) December 2010	en-US
dc.source	Revista de Biología Tropical/International Journal of Tropical Biology and Conservation; Vol. 58 (4) December 2010	es-ES
dc.source	Revista Biología Tropical; Vol. 58 (4) December 2010	pt-PT
dc.source	2215-2075
dc.source	0034-7744
dc.source	10.15517/rbt.v58i4
dc.title	Urban vegetation change after a hundred years in a tropical city (San José de Costa Rica)	en-US
dc.type	artículo original
dc.coverage	CRC	en-US

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