Urban Forests and Landscape Ecology

Urbanization is a dominant driver of landscape transformation across the world, with cities representing centers of economic and socio-cultural development. Today, more than 4.2 billion people live in urban areas, which represent ~3% of the Earth’s land area. By 2050, it is predicted this number wil...

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description Urbanization is a dominant driver of landscape transformation across the world, with cities representing centers of economic and socio-cultural development. Today, more than 4.2 billion people live in urban areas, which represent ~3% of the Earth’s land area. By 2050, it is predicted this number will increase to 6.6 billion people (~70% of the predicted global population). As the human population grows, cities around the globe will continue to expand, increasing the demand for food and services. Within cities, urban forests provide multiple nature-based solutions, as well as other environmental services and socio-economic benefits, such as heat mitigation and social integration. Urban forests are also important for coping with psychological stress during events, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, urban forests are a priority for basic and applied forest research because they are intimately connected with people’s physical, cultural, and economic well-being in the urban environment, and can also be important reservoirs of biodiversity. To promote a better understanding of urban forests and landscape ecology, this book in “Urban Forests and Landscape Ecology” compiled research set in urban forests and focused on some spatially explicit processes. Studies presented in this book are highly interdisciplinary and use a wide range of research approaches. This book present nine scientific publications from global urban forests demonstrating that these forests, as a nature-based solution, provide multiple environmental services and are crucial to improve urban livability and thereby the wellbeing of city dwellers.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-875182024-03-28T03:33:43Z Urban Forests and Landscape Ecology Esperon-Rodriguez, Manuel Harrison, Tina aesthetics causal effects crown form foliage form urban forests urban forest NATURA 2000 area soundscape birds biological diversity ecosystem disservices Mediterranean region green infrastructure urban forest types indicators microclimate human thermal comfort outdoor thermal environment public health ecological services urban green space remote sensing deep learning convolutional neural network residual structure attention mechanism n/a urban biodiversity urban habitat quality InVEST model land surface temperature Moran’s I Zhengzhou social media data spatiotemporal utilization Shanghai ecological function landscape structure GIS air pollution alleviation accumulation on leaves PM2.5 encapsulated particles urban trees thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research and information: general thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences Urbanization is a dominant driver of landscape transformation across the world, with cities representing centers of economic and socio-cultural development. Today, more than 4.2 billion people live in urban areas, which represent ~3% of the Earth’s land area. By 2050, it is predicted this number will increase to 6.6 billion people (~70% of the predicted global population). As the human population grows, cities around the globe will continue to expand, increasing the demand for food and services. Within cities, urban forests provide multiple nature-based solutions, as well as other environmental services and socio-economic benefits, such as heat mitigation and social integration. Urban forests are also important for coping with psychological stress during events, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, urban forests are a priority for basic and applied forest research because they are intimately connected with people’s physical, cultural, and economic well-being in the urban environment, and can also be important reservoirs of biodiversity. To promote a better understanding of urban forests and landscape ecology, this book in “Urban Forests and Landscape Ecology” compiled research set in urban forests and focused on some spatially explicit processes. Studies presented in this book are highly interdisciplinary and use a wide range of research approaches. This book present nine scientific publications from global urban forests demonstrating that these forests, as a nature-based solution, provide multiple environmental services and are crucial to improve urban livability and thereby the wellbeing of city dwellers. 2022-07-06T11:54:06Z 2022-07-06T11:54:06Z 2022 book ONIX_20220706_9783036545776_113 9783036545776 9783036545783 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/87518 eng application/octet-stream Attribution 4.0 International https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/5716 https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/5716 MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 10.3390/books978-3-0365-4578-3 10.3390/books978-3-0365-4578-3 46cabcaa-dd94-4bfe-87b4-55023c1b36d0 9783036545776 9783036545783 170 Basel open access
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causal effects
crown form
foliage form
urban forests
urban forest
NATURA 2000 area
soundscape
birds
biological diversity
ecosystem disservices
Mediterranean region
green infrastructure
urban forest types
indicators
microclimate
human thermal comfort
outdoor thermal environment
public health
ecological services
urban green space
remote sensing
deep learning
convolutional neural network
residual structure
attention mechanism
n/a
urban biodiversity
urban habitat quality
InVEST model
land surface temperature
Moran’s I
Zhengzhou
social media data
spatiotemporal utilization
Shanghai
ecological function
landscape structure
GIS
air pollution alleviation
accumulation on leaves
PM2.5
encapsulated particles
urban trees
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Urban Forests and Landscape Ecology
title Urban Forests and Landscape Ecology
title_full Urban Forests and Landscape Ecology
title_fullStr Urban Forests and Landscape Ecology
title_full_unstemmed Urban Forests and Landscape Ecology
title_short Urban Forests and Landscape Ecology
title_sort urban forests and landscape ecology
topic aesthetics
causal effects
crown form
foliage form
urban forests
urban forest
NATURA 2000 area
soundscape
birds
biological diversity
ecosystem disservices
Mediterranean region
green infrastructure
urban forest types
indicators
microclimate
human thermal comfort
outdoor thermal environment
public health
ecological services
urban green space
remote sensing
deep learning
convolutional neural network
residual structure
attention mechanism
n/a
urban biodiversity
urban habitat quality
InVEST model
land surface temperature
Moran’s I
Zhengzhou
social media data
spatiotemporal utilization
Shanghai
ecological function
landscape structure
GIS
air pollution alleviation
accumulation on leaves
PM2.5
encapsulated particles
urban trees
thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research and information: general
thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences
topic_facet aesthetics
causal effects
crown form
foliage form
urban forests
urban forest
NATURA 2000 area
soundscape
birds
biological diversity
ecosystem disservices
Mediterranean region
green infrastructure
urban forest types
indicators
microclimate
human thermal comfort
outdoor thermal environment
public health
ecological services
urban green space
remote sensing
deep learning
convolutional neural network
residual structure
attention mechanism
n/a
urban biodiversity
urban habitat quality
InVEST model
land surface temperature
Moran’s I
Zhengzhou
social media data
spatiotemporal utilization
Shanghai
ecological function
landscape structure
GIS
air pollution alleviation
accumulation on leaves
PM2.5
encapsulated particles
urban trees
thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research and information: general
thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences
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