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Residential household yard care practices along urban-exurban gradients in six climatically-diverse U.S. metropolitan areas — Europe PMC PMID:31721782

Source: Europe PMC (en)
Original: https://europepmc.org/article/MED/31721782
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0222630
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Residential household yard care practices along urban-exurban gradients in six climatically-diverse U.S. metropolitan areas — Europe PMC PMID:31721782 — Europe PMC (en), https://europepmc.org/article/MED/31721782 (CC0-1.0); archived copy: https://metraipolis.com/documento/dc_bf4ec4951815 (Metraipolis archive dc_bf4ec4951815, sha256 3e9d63bcceb7ca6caad4939ef756471c93af403833288abf77f81d40b1ce32c3)

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@misc{dcbf4ec4951815,
  title = {Residential household yard care practices along urban-exurban gradients in six climatically-diverse U.S. metropolitan areas — Europe PMC PMID:31721782},
  howpublished = {Europe PMC (en)},
  url = {https://europepmc.org/article/MED/31721782},
  note = {License CC0-1.0; archived copy https://metraipolis.com/documento/dc_bf4ec4951815; sha256 3e9d63bcceb7ca6caad4939ef756471c93af403833288abf77f81d40b1ce32c3},
  year = {2026}
}

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Residential land is expanding in the United States, and lawn now covers more area than the country's leading irrigated crop by area. Given that lawns are widespread across diverse climatic regions and there is rising concern about the environmental impacts associated with their management, there is a clear need to understand the geographic variation, drivers, and outcomes of common yard care practices. We hypothesized that 1) income, age, and the number of neighbors known by name will be positively associated with the odds of having irrigated, fertilized, or applied pesticides in the last year, 2) irrigation, fertilization, and pesticide application will vary quadratically with population density, with the highest odds in suburban areas, and 3) the odds of irrigating will vary by climate, but fertilization and pesticide application will not. We used multi-level models to systematically address nested spatial scales within and across six U.S. metropolitan areas-Boston, Baltimore, Miami, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Phoenix, and Los Angeles. We found significant variation in yard care practices at the household (the relationship with income was positive), urban-exurban gradient (the relationship with population density was an inverted U), and regional scales (city-to-city variation). A multi-level modeling framework was useful for discerning these scale-dependent outcomes because this approach controls for autocorrelation at multiple spatial scales. Our findings may guide policies or programs seeking to mitigate the potentially deleterious outcomes associated with water use and chemical application, by identifying the subpopulations most likely to irrigate, fertilize, and/or apply pesticides.

Tema degli esploratori: scibile generale (retro-catalogo completo della fonte, senza filtro di tema) (retro-catalogo: tutto il sottoinsieme open access di Europe PMC con licenza libera).
Pubblicazione: PloS one, 2019 (prima pubblicazione 2019-11-13).
Identificativi: PMID 31721782 · PMCID PMC6853287 · DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0222630.
Descrittori MeSH principali: Environment; Housing; Natural Resources.
Pagina: https://europepmc.org/article/MED/31721782 — https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0222630. Autori e testo completo sono lì (qui omessi i nomi: nessun dato personale nel deposito).
Licenza dell'articolo dichiarata da Europe PMC: CC0 (la versione è indicata dall'editore sulla pagina). Abstract riportato senza modifiche al contenuto, con attribuzione; deposito marcato CC0.
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