Table 2.

Assessment of structural diversity, relative shares of park characteristics, and visitors’ activities

	Berlin				Salzburg
	KP	EB	CHU	MP	DP	LP
Structural diversity
Tree/forest elements	±	−	±	±	+++	−
Ground vegetation	−	−	−	−	+++	+
Water elements	−	±	+++	−	±	−
Topography	−−	±	++	−	±	±
Active infrastr.	−	−−	−	+	+++	±
Passive infrastr.	±	±	−−	+	±	+++
Park characteristics
Attractive wildlife	0.68	0.70	0.70	0.68	0.56	0.71
Attractive plants	0.75	0.83	0.79	0.67	0.67	0.73
Naturalness	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	0.93	0.87
Beauty of landscape	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	0.76	0.75
Good view	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	0.54	0.59
Tranquility	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	0.79	0.79
Facilities for relaxation	0.80	0.80	0.88	0.88	0.70	0.68
Facilities for sport and play	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	0.58	0.72
Access	0.87	0.86	0.82	0.90	0.76	0.76
Proximity to water	0.69	0.86	0.86	0.64	n.a.	n.a.
Shaded areas	0.85	0.77	0.80	0.86	n.a.	n.a.
Activities (%)
Active/sport	6.82	2.04	10.42	4.00	75.00	47.00
Passive/relax	93.18	97.96	89.58	96.00	25.00	53.00

Structural diversity values range from low to high represented with—as low and +++ as high (in each category values between the mean and 0.5 × standard deviation are presented as ±; values < or >0.5 × standard deviation around the mean are presented as − or +; values < or >1 standard deviation around the mean are presented as ++ or − and values < or >1.5 × standard deviation around the mean are presented as +++ or −−−). Park characteristics are normalized to 0–1, ranging from “not important” to “very important”

n.a. not assessed in this park