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Abstract
Urban fauna has come to use and occupy constructed vegetated roof systems, or ecoroofs, in the urban landscape. However, outside simple observation of these constructed ecosystems very little is known about the fauna with regards to their behavior and the community composition. Even at the most basic level fauna presence on North American green roofs has not been strongly surveyed. Therefore, as a part of a larger project, a single season descriptive study of the insect and avian fauna on the green roof of Ford Motor Company’s River Rouge Assembly Plant in Dearborn, MI, USA is presented. This paper provides a listing of insect families, spider, and bird species present in a single season five-week study that occurred during late summer of 2004. Twenty-nine winged insect families were present including; flies, beetles, wasps, grasshoppers, plant bugs and leaf hoppers. In addition several types of spiders and several species of birds were found. This paper describes the reasons for method selection, lists the present fauna, compares the differences in the findings to recent publications and discusses future considerations for ecoroof habitat studies.
Urban fauna has come to use and occupy constructed vegetated roof systems, or ecoroofs, in the urban landscape. However, outside simple observation of these constructed ecosystems very little is known about the fauna with regards to their behavior and the community composition. Even at the most basic level fauna presence on North American green roofs has not been strongly surveyed. Therefore, as a part of a larger project, a single season descriptive study of the insect and avian fauna on the green roof of Ford Motor Company’s River Rouge Assembly Plant in Dearborn, MI, USA is presented. This paper provides a listing of insect families, spider, and bird species present in a single season five-week study that occurred during late summer of 2004. Twenty-nine winged insect families were present including; flies, beetles, wasps, grasshoppers, plant bugs and leaf hoppers. In addition several types of spiders and several species of birds were found. This paper describes the reasons for method selection, lists the present fauna, compares the differences in the findings to recent publications and discusses future considerations for ecoroof habitat studies.
Date
5/2005
5/2005
Author(s)
Reid Coffman, Graham Davis
Reid Coffman, Graham Davis
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Keyword(s)
green roof; ecoroof; ecosystem; Ford assembly plant;
green roof; ecoroof; ecosystem; Ford assembly plant;