Urban tree planting initiatives are being actively promoted as a planning tool to enable
urban areas to adapt to and mitigate against climate change, enhance urban sustainability …

Understanding how urban forests developed their current patterns of tree canopy cover,
species composition, and diversity requires an appreciation of historical legacy effects …

Urban trees provide substantial public health and public environmental benefits. However,
scholarly works suggest that urban trees may be disproportionately low in poor and minority …

In arid and semiarid regions, where few if any trees are native, city trees are largely human
planted. Societal factors such as resident preferences for tree traits, nursery offerings, and …

Urbanization has a homogenizing effect on biodiversity and leads to communities with fewer
native species and lower conservation value. However, few studies have explored whether …

Drivers at multiple scales influence the management of trees, grass and other vegetation in
residential yards. While significant attention has been paid to the varied drivers of residential …

With the adoption of ambitious goals to grow and diversify the urban forest, municipal and
non-municipal planting efforts have increased in many North American cities. A better …

Across the world, planning and decision-making for urban forests increasingly seeks to
include diverse perspectives. Yet, research on people's perceptions of urban forests and …

Names: Douglas, Ian, 1936–editor.| Routledge (Firm) Title: The Routledge handbook of
urban ecology/edited by Ian Douglas, Pippin Anderson, David Goode, Michael C. Houck …

To ensure that cities and urban ecosystems support human wellbeing and overall quality of
life we need conceptual frameworks that can connect different scientific disciplines as well …