Urban greenspaces

This experimental site, located within the Puerto real campus of the UCA, belongs to a global collaborative experimental network –the URBANFUN experiment. This network aims to assess the impacts of climate warming and lawn management regime on the biodiversity and ecosystem services of urban greenspaces. Important ecosystem services provided by urban greenspaces include carbon sequestration, microclimate regulation, biodiversity conservation, and recreation. Urban greenspaces can also be used as observatories to study the impact of biological, physical and chemical stressors, such as high-frequency disturbance, species invasion, and air pollution.