Urban park managers are tasked with maintaining ecological function and quality of parks while also meeting visitor preferences. The purpose of this study was to better understand how managers currently manage vegetation in parks of Portland, Oregon. Twenty‐one urban park manager interviews were completed regarding 15 parks, which included natural‐passive use, recreational‐active use, and multi‐use park types. Responses were coded for themes and patterns of meaning. Mixed methods were used to evaluate the urban park manager interview data in the context of visitor interview and plant community composition data collected at the same parks. Nonmetric multidimensional scaling ordinations were used to identify urban park manager and visitor perspectives correlated with different park types and their vegetation. Across park types, managers discussed maintenance as a favorite aspect of plant management, while ecosystem management was often described by managers of natural‐passive use parks. Some managers indicated that they would make no changes to plant management, but the majority provided detailed recommendations such as enhancing maintenance, increasing staffing, adding plants, updating infrastructure, and improving plant species selection. There are opportunities to better meet the preferences of both managers and visitors by continuing to maintain large trees and trail/path vegetation for accessibility, removing invasive/harmful plants, and improving plant selection to include those that are heartier, more colorful, produce flowers, and are disease resistant, climate adapted, and provide habitat for a variety of species. While urban park managers discussed how they incorporated visitor preferences and accessibility in plant management, they also described limitations such as funding, staff resources, and undesirable visitor behaviors. Increased communication and collaboration among governmental agencies, non‐profit organizations, and community members, as well as continued investment in park management and interdisciplinary mixed methods research have the potential to enhance the many ecological and social benefits of urban parks.

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城市公园游客的植被管理：俄勒冈州波特兰的混合方法。

城市公园管理者的任务是维护公园的生态功能和质量，同时满足游客的喜好。这项研究的目的是更好地了解管理人员当前如何管理俄勒冈州波特兰公园的植被。完成了对15个公园的21个城市公园经理访谈，其中包括自然被动使用，娱乐主动使用和多用途公园类型。响应被编码为主题和意义模式。在访问者访谈和在同一公园收集的植物群落组成数据的背景下，使用混合方法评估了城市公园管理员的访谈数据。使用非度量多维比例缩放法来确定与不同公园类型及其植被相关的城市公园管理员和游客视角。在各种公园类型中 经理们将维护作为植物管理的一个最喜欢的方面，而生态系统管理通常被自然被动使用公园的经理描述。一些经理表示他们不会对工厂管理进行任何更改，但是大多数经理提供了详细的建议，例如加强维护，增加人员，增加工厂，更新基础设施以及改善植物种类选择。通过继续维护大树和步道/小径植被以确保可及性，移除入侵/有害植物并改善植物选择以包括更强壮，更鲜艳，能产生花朵的植物，有机会更好地满足管理者和访客的喜好，具有抗病性，适应气候变化，并为各种物种提供栖息地。在城市公园经理讨论如何将游客的偏好和可及性纳入工厂管理的同时，他们还描述了资金，人员资源和不受欢迎的游客行为等局限性。政府机构，非营利组织和社区成员之间不断加强的沟通与合作，以及对公园管理和跨学科混合方法研究的持续投资，有可能增强城市公园的许多生态和社会效益。