Urban renewable energy and ecosystems: integrating vegetation with ground-mounted solar arrays increases arthropod abundance of key functional groups

摘要: Cities are increasingly developing renewable energy within urban areas, yet the implications for ecosystems have not been explored. This study brings together climate change mitigation policies and ecosystem conservation in areas by investigating how ground-mounted solar arrays parking lots affect arthropod abundance biodiversity. We assess which arthropods present under these canopies investigate integration of vegetation affects abundance, different functional groups, family richness. sampled arthropods, collected data on habitat characteristics, evaluated landscape cover 2 km eight sites around San Jose Santa Cruz, California. found substantial diversity underneath area parking lots, that integrated with significantly greater more detritivores, parasitoids, The results demonstrate lots, especially when vegetation, can be a win-win mitigation, richness, functioning.