Ecological Green Space Planning for Butterflies Habitat in Residential Area

Abstract

Development a residential area cause fragmentation both green space and wildlife habitat as well. Moreover, the landscape design orientation in housing areas usually focusing on the aesthetic value and less attention to the ecological function as well as the health of the ecosystem. Butterflies are the indicators of environmental and ecosystem health. Areas rich in butterflies and moths indicate the richness of other invertebrates. These collectively provide a wide range of environmental benefits, including pollination and natural pest control. Therefore the presence of ecological orientation of green space in a residential area as a habitat for butterflies and other wildlife is one of the solution. The purpose of this study is to create an ecological green space plan for a butterflies habitat in the residential area. The study was conducted consist of preparation, data collection, data analysis, synthesis and planning. The aspect analyzed in this study are biophysical aspect and quality of ecological aspect that contains butterflies diets and a host plants, proximity to the water resource, vegetation cover and the interspersion of habitat components. The result show that the butterflies on the site, qualitatifly, indicate quite diverse lack of diversity of host plants and the vegetation for the butterflies diets. The as green space plan for butterfly habitat was arranged based on the development of the ecological space concept, the vegetation concept and the animal activities concept. Each green space unit (patches) has functions as sink and source and also as steping stone and connecting corridor between sinks and source. A plant selection is proposed for each green space unit.