Rapid urban development threatens biodiversity, reducing local livelihoods and well-being when replacing natural habitat by urban structures. Although there is a lot of literature on the effects of urbanization on biodiversity, ...

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 ...

Urbanization is one of the most important causes of ecological changes and biodiversity loss worldwide, and forests in Latin America provide valuable scenarios to understand the ecological effects of this human-driven ...

The Serrano Chaco forest is the least extended Gran Chaco forest type with a long his tory of human disturbances, such as ranching, urbanization, fires, an exotic tree species expansion, which have altered natural vegetation ...

This research has established the degree of comfort achieved in road channels of Mendoza Metropolitan Area (AMM), in Argentina. They present different widths (16 m, 20 m and 30 m) with low building density and they are ...

Cities display an array of microclimates closely related to the composition of their surfaces and the relationships among their structures. The effect of the shadow cast by a high-rise building is a simple case of this ...

The city of Ushuaia, Argentina, has experienced a rapid and unorganized population growth with possible consequences on the dynamics and functioning of urban lotic ecosystems. Urban expansion was not largely accompanied ...