TY - JOUR
T1 - Satisfaction, water and fertilizer use in the American residential macrosystem
AU - Groffman, Peter M.
AU - Grove, J. Morgan
AU - Polsky, Colin
AU - Bettez, Neil D.
AU - Morse, Jennifer L.
AU - Cavender-Bares, Jeannine
AU - Hall, Sharon
AU - Heffernan, James B.
AU - Hobbie, Sarah E.
AU - Larson, Kelli
AU - Neill, Christopher
AU - Nelson, Kristen
AU - Ogden, Laura
AU - O'Neil-Dunne, Jarlath
AU - Pataki, Diane
AU - Chowdhury, Rinku Roy
AU - Locke, Dexter H.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 IOP Publishing Ltd.
PY - 2016/2/29
Y1 - 2016/2/29
N2 - Residential yards across the US look remarkably similar despite marked variation in climate and soil, yet the drivers of this homogenization are unknown. Telephone surveys of fertilizer and irrigation use and satisfaction with the natural environment, and measurements of inherent water and nitrogen availability in six US cities (Boston, Baltimore, Miami, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Phoenix, Los Angeles) showed that the percentage of people using irrigation at least once in a year was relatively invariant with little difference between the wettest (Miami, 85%) and driest (Phoenix, 89%) cities. The percentage of people using fertilizer at least once in a year also ranged narrowly (52%-71%), while soil nitrogen supply varied by 10x. Residents expressed similar levels of satisfaction with the natural environment in their neighborhoods. The nature and extent of this satisfaction must be understood if environmental managers hope to effect change in the establishment and maintenance of residential ecosystems.
AB - Residential yards across the US look remarkably similar despite marked variation in climate and soil, yet the drivers of this homogenization are unknown. Telephone surveys of fertilizer and irrigation use and satisfaction with the natural environment, and measurements of inherent water and nitrogen availability in six US cities (Boston, Baltimore, Miami, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Phoenix, Los Angeles) showed that the percentage of people using irrigation at least once in a year was relatively invariant with little difference between the wettest (Miami, 85%) and driest (Phoenix, 89%) cities. The percentage of people using fertilizer at least once in a year also ranged narrowly (52%-71%), while soil nitrogen supply varied by 10x. Residents expressed similar levels of satisfaction with the natural environment in their neighborhoods. The nature and extent of this satisfaction must be understood if environmental managers hope to effect change in the establishment and maintenance of residential ecosystems.
KW - environmental satisfaction
KW - lawns
KW - nitrogen
KW - residential land use
KW - urban ecology
KW - water
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U2 - 10.1088/1748-9326/11/3/034004
DO - 10.1088/1748-9326/11/3/034004
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84962230023
SN - 1748-9318
VL - 11
JO - Environmental Research Letters
JF - Environmental Research Letters
IS - 3
M1 - 034004
ER -