{"id":3309,"date":"2009-12-07T04:35:13","date_gmt":"2009-12-07T04:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=3309"},"modified":"2009-12-07T04:35:13","modified_gmt":"2009-12-07T04:35:13","slug":"designing-for-animal-magnetism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/designing-for-animal-magnetism\/","title":{"rendered":"Designing for animal magnetism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/roof-top-avairy-390x260a1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3346\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/roof-top-avairy-390x260a1.jpg\" alt=\"roof-top-avairy-390x260a1\" width=\"775\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/roof-top-avairy-390x260a1.jpg 775w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/roof-top-avairy-390x260a1-300x95.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/roof-top-avairy-390x260a1-768x244.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/roof-top-avairy-390x260a1-624x198.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><\/a>The next generation of\u00a0green roofs will be designed to ensure the survival of specific species providing much needed ecological space in the urban environment. <a href=\"http:\/\/images.google.com.au\/imgres?imgurl=http:\/\/www.inhabitat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bamaviary2.jpg&amp;imgrefurl=http:\/\/www.inhabitat.com\/2009\/09\/07\/animal-wall-deluxe-apartments-for-birds-and-bats\/&amp;usg=__QYwh7iy9Bxw8ROcBbJHBUkWyYCI=&amp;h=302&amp;w=537&amp;sz=30&amp;hl=en&amp;start=14&amp;um=1&amp;tbnid=Wl-ezDN7bdubMM:&amp;tbnh=74&amp;tbnw=132&amp;prev=\/images%3Fq%3Danimal%2Bhabitats%2Band%2Bgreen%2Broofs%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG%26um%3D1\">BAM<\/a>\u00a0believe the next ecological objective in green roof \u00a0design is the creation of biotropes &#8211; living habitats for species such as migratory birds.<\/p>\n<p>While not a roof habitat exactly, Neil Oxley came up with the idea of a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/magazine\/8079079.stm\">man made tree<\/a>\u00a0for the city of Leeds to support bats, birds, butterflies, insects and even the much maligned urban fox. Kadas&#8217; research into the potential for green roofs to support <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanhabitats.org\/v04n01\/invertebrates_full.html\">rare invertebrates <\/a>\u00a0suggests there is greater\u00a0potential\u00a0for green roofs to promote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanhabitats.org\/v04n01\/wildlife_full.html\">urban habitats<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Restoration ecologist and\u00a0resource planner <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inhabitat.com\/2006\/07\/25\/interview-paul-kephart-of-rana-creek-part-ii\/\">Paul Kepart <\/a>of Rana Creek believes in the near future green roofs will be graded according to a biodiversity index. In keeping with these concerns plant ecologist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sustainablebuildingcentre.com\/event\/christine_thuring_guest_expert_on_ecological_design\">Christine Thuring <\/a>emphasises the need for green roofs to form a series of\u00a0 linked <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanhabitats.org\/v04n01\/habitat_full.html\">habitats<\/a> or archipelagos.<\/p>\n<p>It still seems some way off before we start to think of ways of providing green habitats &#8211; even roof space &#8211;\u00a0for our larger<a href=\"http:\/\/www.projectwildlife.org\/living-raccoons.htm\"> land based fauna\u00a0<\/a>currently being displaced and endangered by urban activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next generation of\u00a0green roofs will be designed to ensure the survival of specific species providing much needed ecological space in the urban environment. BAM\u00a0believe the next ecological objective in green roof \u00a0design is the creation of biotropes &#8211; living habitats for species such as migratory birds. While not a roof habitat exactly, Neil Oxley [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[86,229,113,237],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3309"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}