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Green Roofs Support a Wide Diversity of Collembola in Urban Portland, Oregon [PDF]
, 2015 Green roofs can help address habitat loss in urban areas by supporting plant and animal communities. To determine whether green roofs can support collembola biodiversity, we collected pitfall samples from April-June 2015 on two extensive and two ...
Miziolek, Konrad
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Fine‐scale substrate heterogeneity in green roof plant communities: The constraint of size
Ecology and Evolution, 2019 Heterogeneity–diversity relationship (HDR) is commonly shown to be positive in accordance with classic niche processes. However, recent soil‐based studies have often found neutral and even negative HDRs. Some of the suggested reasons for this discrepancy
Amiel Vasl +3 more
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Development of a certification methodology for “green” roofs [PDF]
BIO Web of ConferencesThis study examines design solutions in construction aimed at creating ecosystems within urban environments. The focus of the study are”green” roofs as a part of “green” building practices (next – green).
Lisienkova Liubov +2 more
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Hydrology Research, 2020 In this study, rainfall-runoff data of four green roofs with varying structural configurations under dry and wet substrates were analyzed to acquire the effective estimation for Runoff Coefficient (Cv) and Curve Number (CN) parameters.
Wen Liu, Qi Feng, Weiping Chen, Wei Wei
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Socio-Ecological Dimensions of Spontaneous Plants on Green Roofs
Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 2021 Green roofs have the potential to provide socio-ecological services in urban settings that lack vegetation and open space. However, implementation of green roofs is limited by high construction and maintenance costs.
Dean Schrieke +4 more
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Urban green roofs can support a diversity of parasitoid wasps
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Green roofs are often installed atop buildings to provide ecological services such as mitigating storm water runoff and cooling air within urban heat islands.
Aramee C. Diethelm, Susan E. Masta
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2019 Green roofs are a way for cities to mitigate environmental stressors, such as heatwaves and droughts. However, these environmental stressors can adversely affect green roof vegetation, causing challenges for plant growth and survival and subsequently ...
Jessica M. K. Hoch +10 more
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Lessons from New York High Line Green Roof: Conserving Biodiversity and Reconnecting with Nature
Urban Science, 2021 The concept of sustainable urban design has appeared in different perspectives to minimize and reduce the negative impacts of urban expansion in terms of climatic and environmental drawbacks.
Kawar Salih +2 more
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Land, 2022 Ecosystem services refer to the benefits provided to humans by the natural environment and healthy ecosystems. Green roofs can be used to enhance ecosystem services, which are reduced by urbanization.
Jongyun Kim, Wanmo Kang
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The ecological approach to the city-planning in modern megalopolises [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2019 The paper discusses the main stages of development and the fundamental structure of modern green roofs, the advantages and limitations of creating green roofs, features of creating green roofs in Vietnam and other countries of the Asia-Pacific Region ...
Radushinsky Dmitry +5 more
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