Recreation and Therapy in Urban Forests—The Potential Use of Sensory Garden Solutions
Forests, 2021 Urban forests are not only woodlands or groups of trees, but also individual trees, street trees, trees in parks, trees in derelict corners, and gardens.
S. Wajchman-Świtalska +2 more
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Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Question How conservation and forest type affect macrofungal compositional diversity is not well understood. Even less is known about macrofungal associations with plants, soils, and geoclimatic conditions.
Wenjie Wang +5 more
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Ecosystem services from urban forests: The case of Oslomarka, Norway
Ecosystem Services, 2021 Urban and peri-urban forests provide multiple ecosystem services for city dwellers, including water, opportunities for recreation and tourism, climate regulation and habitat provision.
Elisabeth Cornelia Berglihn +1 more
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Not Only Trees Matter—Traffic-Related PM Accumulation by Vegetation of Urban Forests
Sustainability, 2022 In terms of the process of air purification, a lot of attention has been devoted to trees and shrubs. Little attention has been paid to herbaceous vegetation from the lower forest layers.
R. Popek +7 more
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Geography of disservices in urban forests: public participation mapping for closing the loop
Ecosystems and People, 2022 Studies on cultural ecosystem services (CES) in urban forests using Public Participation GIS mapping are a well-established field of research. However, far fewer studies do exist that also illuminate perceived disservices, thus omitting an important part
Christoph F. Baumeister +3 more
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Visual Aesthetic Quality Assessment of Urban Forests: A Conceptual Framework
Urban Science, 2022 Visual aesthetic quality is the visual pleasure level that attracts people and makes them prefer certain areas. Visual aesthetic quality is valued and considered for urban forests but remains challenging.
Riyadh Mundher +7 more
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Assessing climate risk to support urban forests in a changing climate
Plants, People, Planet, 2021 The management of urban forests is a key element of resilience planning in cities across the globe. Urban forests provide ecosystem services as well as other nature-based solutions to 4.2 billion people living in cities.
M. Esperón-Rodríguez +25 more
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Decoupling forest characteristics and background conditions to explain urban-rural variations of multiple microclimate regulation from urban trees [PDF]
PeerJ, 2018 Background Rapid urbanization in semi-arid regions necessitates greater cooling, humidifying, and shading services from urban trees, but maximizing these services requires an exact understanding of their association with forest characteristics and ...
Wenjie Wang +5 more
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Urban Forests as Main Regulator of the Evaporative Cooling Effect in Cities
AGU Advances, 2021 Higher temperatures in urban areas expose a large fraction of the human population to potentially dangerous heat stress. Green spaces are promoted worldwide as local and city‐scale cooling strategies but the amount, type, and functioning of vegetation in
A. Paschalis +4 more
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MONITORING FOREST AREA CHANGE USING QUICKBIRD
Biotropia: The Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Biology, 2022 A study was conducted to compare the urban forest management in three urban forests in Samarinda City. The application of GIS (Geographic Information System) is one of the alternatives to conduct a variety of processes such as: providing geographical ...
SRI ENDAYANI +4 more
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