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A Tree-Prone Community: Residential and Street Tree Planting and Care in the Neotropical City of Xalapa, Mexico

Ina Falfán, Martha Bonilla-Moheno, Luis-Bernardo Vázquez and Ian MacGregor-Fors
Arboriculture & Urban Forestry (AUF) July 2024, 50 (4) 286-300; DOI: https://doi.org/10.48044/jauf.2024.011
Ina Falfán
Red de Ambiente y Sustentabilidad, Instituto de Ecología, A.C., Xalapa, Veracruz, México, Laboratorio de Restauración Ecológica, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de, México, Ciudad de México, México
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Martha Bonilla-Moheno
Red de Ambiente y Sustentabilidad, Instituto de Ecología, A.C., Xalapa, Veracruz, México
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Luis-Bernardo Vázquez
Ecology, Landscape, and Sustainability Group, Department of Observation and Study of the Earth, the Atmosphere and the Ocean, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, México
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Ian MacGregor-Fors
Ecosystems and Environment Research Programme, Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, Niemenkatu 73, FI-15140, Lahti, Finland
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    Location of Xalapa depicting the sampling scheme layout. Satellite imagery from Google Earth taken in 2023 February: at 2023 Maxar Technologies (Westminster, Colorado, USA), 2023 CNES/Airbus (Blagnac, France), and Landsat/Copernicus.

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    Diagram of presence, planting, and care percentages for (A) residential trees and (B) street trees in Xalapa. *Percentages sum up > 100% due to respondents who indicated they planted some of the trees in their homes, but not all of them. ** Percentages do not equal 100% due to four missing data.

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    Reported care practices for residential and street trees in Xalapa. Percentages equal > 100% due to respondents that reported providing 2 and 3 types of care to trees.

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    Odds ratios from generalized linear models, with a binomial distribution of errors considering logit link function between presence, planting, and care of the residential and street trees and dwelling attributes in Xalapa.

    Dwelling attributesModel fit parameters
    Attribute of analysisType of treeHomeowners (no, yes)Years of inhabitanceDwelling socioeconomic level (1, 2, 3)Dwelling in neighborhood or subdivisionLikelihood ratio χ2 (df = 4)Pseudo R2
    PresenceResidential1.2341.0131.4511.4575.590.086
    PresenceStreet0.8351.035**1.891*1.75113.15*0.148
    PlantingResidential5.113*1.0190.6991.67910.56*0.152
    PlantingStreet1.5720.9921.0230.2382.490.159
    CareResidential0.6691.0031.4553.2792.440.126
    CareStreet< 0.0001.0330.867< 0.0006.030.208
    • ↵Significance level: * < 0.05, ** < 0.01.

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Ina Falfán, Martha Bonilla-Moheno, Luis-Bernardo Vázquez, Ian MacGregor-Fors
Arboriculture & Urban Forestry (AUF) Jul 2024, 50 (4) 286-300; DOI: 10.48044/jauf.2024.011

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