Population increase and urban development over the last 20 years in Chile have outgrown most rainwater drainage and evacuation systems. Many cities located in the central region suffer from frequent floods in some of their ...

Extensive green roofs improve the provision of ecosystem services in urban environments, particularly in semiarid regions. The aim of this paper is to compare their thermal performance during six months between two rooms, ...

Along with the growth of urban occupation and the green areas reduction around the cities comes the need to develop new technologies to reduce the environmental impacts caused by buildings construction and maintenance. The ...

Green roofs offer numerous environmental benefits, and thus their implementation is considered an initiative to create sustainable cities. However, the characteristics of green roofs that could enhance arthropod biodiversity ...

Green roofs integrate vegetation into infrastructures to reach benefits that minimize negative impacts of the urbanization. Green roofs use artificial soils (substrates) that have an improved performance compared to natural ...

1. In cities, green roofs may favour an increase in the local diversity, although the role they play on host–parasitoid interactions is still unclear. Here, we tested the hypothesis that the specialist leaf-miner Liriomyza ...