Table 3.
Population density and vegetation at measurement sites.
High-density residential | Medium/low-density residential | Commercial, business, industrial | Peri-urban background | |
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Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) (value range: 0–1)* | 0.09 (0.03) | 0.13 (0.04) | 0.10 (0.03) | 0.22 (0.06) |
Population density (people/km2) | 35,833 (42,011) | 6881 (9612) | 7966 (9220) | 1701 (3867) |
Data are summarized as means and standard deviations within land use areas.
*To capture vegetation in the area surrounding each site, we created a 200 m radius buffer around the site and calculated the average NDVI within it. NDVI can be a negative value, which would indicate water, though at all of our measurement sites, NDVI levels were positive between 0 and + 1.