Urban green roofs provide habitat for migrating and breeding birds and their arthropod prey. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 The world is rapidly urbanizing, and many previously biodiverse areas are now mostly composed of impervious surface. This loss of natural habitat causes local bird communities to become dominated by urban dweller and urban utilizer species and reduces ...
Dustin R Partridge, J Alan Clark
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Digging the New York City Skyline: soil fungal communities in green roofs and city parks. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 In urban environments, green roofs provide a number of benefits, including decreased urban heat island effects and reduced energy costs for buildings. However, little research has been done on the non-plant biota associated with green roofs, which likely
Krista L McGuire +14 more
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Microclimate effects and outdoor thermal comfort of green roof types in hot and dry climates: Modelling in the historic city of Yazd, Iran. [PDF]
PLoS ONEIn hot and arid climates, developing green roofs to improve the microclimate and thermal comfort faces challenges due to water scarcity and harsh climate conditions.
Zahra Karimian, Sara Mahdizadeh
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Fine-scale substrate heterogeneity does not affect arthropod communities on green roofs [PDF]
PeerJ, 2019 Green roofs, which are roofs with growing substrate and vegetation, can provide habitat for arthropods in cities. Maintaining a diversity of arthropods in an urban environment can enhance the functions they fill, such as pest control and soil development.
Bracha Y. Schindler +5 more
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Evaluating the effects of green roofs and green façade as an urban heat island adaptation strategy [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2023 The present study investigated the potential cooling effect of green roofs and green façades on a residential neighborhood in Athens during a typical summer day.
Tseliou Areti +3 more
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Green roofs – good regulatory practices with potential to be applied in Bulgaria and North Macedonia [PDF]
Silva Balcanica, 2021 Green roofs are used worldwide to mitigate the impacts of extensive urbanization, bringing benefits on social, economic, and environmental levels. In order to promote and facilitate the construction of green roofs by private investors, many countries ...
Mariam Bozhilova +3 more
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Influence of blue-green roofs on surface and indoor temperatures over a building scale
Nature-Based Solutions, 2023 Blue-green roofs have been utilized and studied for their enhanced water storage capacity compared to conventional roofs or extensive green roofs. Nonetheless, research about the thermal effect of blue-green roofs is lacking. The goal of this research is
Dante Föllmi +3 more
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Land, 2022 The global spread of green roofs is becoming increasingly important in the context of increasing urbanization and climate change as they provide multiple benefits, including urban heat island effect (UHI) mitigation, stormwater retention and urban flood ...
Siwei Chen, Zhonghua Gou
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Methodology for the Design and Evaluation of Green Roofs in Egypt [PDF]
Port Said Engineering Research Journal, 2016 Green roofs have been gaining popularity in recent years, as an effective way to solve many environmental problems, many countries concerned with the application of green roofs in cities.
Mostafa El-Ahwal +3 more
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Архитектон, 2022 Various approaches to the use of green roofs and green facades in Seoul, South Korea, are considered and illustrated by typical and unique examples of the use of planting on building roofs and facades.
Shafrai Ekaterina S.
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