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Nowak, D.J. (2002). The effects of urban trees on air quality. USDA Forest Service, Syracuse, NY, USA.
It analizes the main ways that urban trees affect air quality:
- temperature reduction and other microclimatic effects;
- removal of air pollutants;
- emission of volatile organic compounds and tree maintenance emissions;
- energy effects on buildings.
Leff, M. (2016). The Sustainable Urban Forest. A Step-by-Step Approach. Davey Institute/USDA Forest Service, Philadelphia, USA.
This guide is designed primarily to help municipalities assess the state of their urban forest, identify management concerns, and chart a path forward, step by step, toward long-term sustainability.
RESOURCE LINKRowntree, R.A. (1998). Urban forest ecology: Conceptual points of departure. Journal of Arboriculture 24(2) 62-71.
It illustrates the evolution of the ecological view in urban forestry and discusses several useful concepts that have emerged.
RESOURCE LINKLivesley,S.J; McPherson, E.G.; Calfapietra C. (2016). The Urban Forest and Ecosystem Services: Impacts on Urban Water, Heat, and Pollution Cycles at the Tree, Street, and City Scale. J. Environ. Qual. 45:119–124.ity Scale.
It presents new research that advances our knowledge of the ecological and environmental services provided by the urban forest.
RESOURCE LINKZhou,W.; Huang, G.; Pickett, S.T.A.; Wang, J.; Cadenasso, M.L.; McPhearson, T.; Grove, J.M.; Wang, J. (2021). Urban tree canopy has greater cooling effects in socially vulnerable communities in the US. One Earth 4 (12): 1764-1775.
Highlights:
- socially vulnerable urban residents live in hotter zones that have fewer trees;
- urban trees have greater cooling efficiency (CE) in socially vulnerable neighborhoods;
- we developed tools to facilitate spatial prioritizing heat mitigation strategies;
- heat mitigation solutions must address both distributional and procedural injustice.
The Flow of Energy: Primary Production to Higher Trophic Levels.
RESOURCE LINKBinelli, Eliana Kampf; Gholz, Henry L.; Duryea, Mary L. "Chapter 4: Plant Succession and Disturbances in the Urban Forest Ecosystem". University of Florida, IFAS Extension.
Kowarik I, Hiller A, Planchuelo G, Seitz B, von der Lippe M, Buchholz S. Emerging Urban Forests: Opportunities for Promoting the Wild Side of the Urban Green Infrastructure. Sustainability. 2019; 11(22):6318.
C Y Jim and H T Liu. Patterns and Dynamics of Urban Forests in Relation to Land Use and Development History in Guangzhou City, China.
Kang J, Hirabayashi S, Shibata S. Urban Forest Ecosystem Services Vary with Land Use and Species: A Case Study of Kyoto City. Forests, 2022; 13(1):67.