Urban parks are important within cities and towns for mitigating high air temperatures and improving human thermal comfort, especially during hot summer conditions…
The implementation of trees in urban environments can mitigate outdoor thermal stress. Growing global urban population and the risk of heatwaves, compounded by development driven urban warmth (the urban heat island), means more people are at risk of heat stress in our cities…
Street trees play an important role in helping cities to adapt to multiple environmental perturbations resulting from urbanization, such as changes to the urban water cycle…
Highlights Enough water to the sites despite urban surroundings and different water regimes. Groundwater contributes 30–40% of the total transpiration during the driest periods. Transpiration is 3–16% of total daily transpiration during night-time heat stress. Abstract During the expansion of urban areas, small natural reserves have often been left intact within the built environment as central …
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Increasing urban green spaces and canopy cover requires careful planning of irrigation strategies, especially in arid and semiarid areas. This study investigates how vegetation cover and irrigation affect the water balance and vegetation productivity of a small urban reserve in the Melbourne metropolitan area, Australia…
Climate change is now accepted as real and requires immediate development of strategies for…
TREENET acknowledges the Traditional Owners of country throughout Australia and recognises their continuing connection to land, waters and culture.
We pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging.
