Valuing the role of time in urban ecology

A Ossola, ML Cadenasso, EK Meineke - Frontiers in Ecology and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Cities and towns are complex ecosystems with features that can vary dramatically in space
and time. Our knowledge of the spatial structure of urban land and ecological systems is …

Quantifying the stormwater runoff volume reduction benefits of urban street tree canopy

WR Selbig, SP Loheide II, W Shuster… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Trees in the urban right-of-way areas have increasingly been considered part of a suite of
green infrastructure practices used to manage stormwater runoff. A paired-catchment …

Traits of a bloom: a nationwide survey of US urban tree planting initiatives (TPIs)

TS Eisenman, T Flanders, RW Harper, RJ Hauer… - Urban Forestry & Urban …, 2021 - Elsevier
Municipal leaders worldwide are showing substantial interest in urban greening. This
encompasses incentives, policies, and programs to vegetate urban landscapes, and it often …

Municipal Forest Program Management in the United States of America: A Systematic Review

JR Hargrave, RW Harper, BJ Butler, JT Mullins - Forests, 2022 - mdpi.com
Municipalities across the United States have varied available resources to manage urban
forests, resulting in substantial differences in urban forestry services and outcomes. This …

Visualizing evaluation model of human perceptions and characteristic indicators of landscape visual quality in urban green spaces by using nomograms

B Ma, RJ Hauer, C Xu, W Li - Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 2021 - Elsevier
Understanding human perceptions and quantifying parameters that characterize landscape
visual quality in an urban green space is important to describe these connections. Within this …

Just street trees? Street trees increase local biodiversity and biomass in higher income, denser neighborhoods

EC Anderson, DH Locke, STA Pickett, SL LaDeau - Ecosphere, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Tree canopy cover is a critical component of the urban environment that supports ecosystem
services at multiple spatial and temporal scales. Increasing tree canopy across a matrix of …

Daytime dynamic of spontaneous expressions of pedestrians in an urban forest park

H Wei, RJ Hauer, S Guo - Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 2021 - Elsevier
It is widely believed that an experience in a forest environment can induce positive emotions
for people. Current evidence that supports this argument mostly come from studies using self …

A global basis of urban tree inventories: What comes first the inventory or the program

B Ma, RJ Hauer, J Östberg, AK Koeser, H Wei… - Urban Forestry & Urban …, 2021 - Elsevier
While efforts to standardize urban forest inventory data have occurred, the information
collected from community to community remains quite variable. In this study, we conducted a …

Hybridization between closely related songbirds is related to human habitat disturbance

KC Grabenstein, KA Otter, TM Burg… - Global Change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Human habitat disturbances can promote hybridization between closely related, but typically
reproductively isolated, species. We explored whether human habitat disturbances are …

Diversity and structure in California's urban forest: What over six million data points tell us about one of the world's largest urban forests

NLR Love, V Nguyen, C Pawlak, A Pineda… - Urban Forestry & Urban …, 2022 - Elsevier
Urban street trees provide many benefits to surrounding communities, but our ability to
assess such benefits relies on the availability of high-quality urban tree data. While these …