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How do urban forests compare? Tree diversity in urban and periurban forests of the southeastern US
(2016)
There is a need to understand how anthropogenic influences affect urban and periurban forest diversity at the regional scale. This study aims to compare urban and periurban tree composition along a geographic gradient, and ...
Soil infectivity and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi communities in four urban green sites in central Argentina
(Elsevier Gmbh, 2021-09)
Many cities around the globe strive for create and maintain urban forests to improve human health, welfare and more positive interactions towards nature. Frequently, the only available land has compacted and degraded soils ...
Environmental indicators in forest fragments from urban watersheds
(2018-01-01)
Accelerated urbanization in Brazil promoted the rapid growth of cities and, in most cases, was not based on adequate land use planning. The result was the intense fragmentation of the landscape, causing the destruction and ...
Analyzing the efficacy of subtropical urban forests in offsetting carbon emissions from cities
Urban forest management and policies have been promoted as a tool to mitigate carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. This study used existing CO2 reduction measures from subtropical Miami-Dade and Gainesville, USA and modeled ...
Community leader perceptions and attitudes toward coastal urban forests and hurricanes in Florida
We compared perceptions and attitudes toward urban forests among community leaders in two different urbanizing areas, hurricane-prone Hillsborough and Broward Counties, Florida. Homeowner association leader responses ...
Noise level and water distance drive resident and migratory bird species richness within a Neotropical megacity
(2020-05-01)
A large body of evidence indicates that urbanization profoundly affects ecological communities, but the extent to which patterns are generalizable across regions, such as in the Neotropics, remains unclear. We examined ...