Australian Urban Forest Literature Database
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Author(s): Chow, Winston | Hughes, Lesley | Jenerette, Darrel | Leishman, Michelle | McGrath, Andrew | Ossola, Alessandro
Year Published: 2021
As the global climate warms, cities worldwide face more frequent and extreme heatwaves. These events can affect human health and decrease liveability…
Author(s): Burlando, Paolo | Carmeliet, Jan | Chow, Winston | Coutts, Andrew M | Fatichi, S. | Manoli, G. | Meili, Naika | Roth, Matthias | Velasco, Erik | Vivoni, Enrique R.
Year Published: 2021
Increasing urban tree cover is an often proposed mitigation strategy against urban heat as trees are expected to cool cities through evapotranspiration and shade provision…
Author(s): Deng, Jiajia | Li, Shaohua | Liu, Bin | Liu, Xiong | Lu, Cheng | Wang, Huiru | You, Zhanping
Year Published: 2021
Although several studies on the dispersion of heavy toxic gas released from ruptured tanks on vehicles during transportation have considered complex terrain such as urban buildings…
Author(s): Gou, Zhonghua | Zhang, Jian
Year Published: 2021
Trees have significant shading and cooling effects because of their crowns. This study investigated the cooling effects of their crown attribute on urban microclimate adjustment and thermal comfort improvement…
Year Published: 2021
This study presents an one-way coupling approach between the ENVI-met microclimate model and the EnergyPlus building energy simulation program, to assess the effect of the urban greenery on the improvement of the buildings’ cooling energy needs, in a dense urban area in Thessaloniki, Greece…
Author(s): Kayed, Mays | Taleb, Hanan M.
Year Published: 2021
Windbreaks are rows of rough or porous materials that create aerodynamic shelter from wind or purify the wind. The aim of this study was to investigate the role of adding windbreaks of permeable trees in order to achieve a more comfortable microclimate and healthy atmosphere at an urban level…
Year Published: 2020
Urban trees provide natural shade and moderate human exposure to solar ultraviolet radiation. To date, most studies quantifying UV attenuation by urban tree canopies have taken place in Australia, with no studies in North America…
Year Published: 2020
Precise shade distributions at the street level are an area of research of increasing importance to provide complete and high spatial and temporal resolutions of the amount and effectiveness of shade…
Author(s): Greenfield, Eric J. | Nowak, David J.
Year Published: 2020
Trees in cities provide numerous benefits to society by altering the local physical, biological and social environment, providing billions of dollars in annual benefits…
Year Published: 2019
Trees facilitate cooling of an urban environment through evapotranspiration. Urban trees help mitigate the urban heat island effect…
Author(s): Chiam, Zhi Quan | Jusuf, Steve Kardinal | Schmiele, Kathrin | Tan, Chun Liang | Tan, Puay Yok | Wong, Nyuk Hien
Year Published: 2020
Urban trees are widely promoted as a solution to cool the urban environment because of shading and evaporative cooling provided by tree canopies…
Year Published: 2020
Trees have been found to have significant cooling effect on outdoor thermal environment. This study explores the characteristics of a tree component (crown) that accounts for a large portion of the cooling effect…
Year Published: 2020
Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) is a common air pollutant that represents a significant threat to public health. In Dublin, a major source of PM2.5 is diesel exhaust, brake dust, and rubber tire particles from vehicles…
Year Published: 2020
Local air circulation is influenced by the drag forces exerted by urban vegetation. In this study, tree canopy parameterization in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) with source term modifications is conducted at the tree scale, which builds upon the models previously used in the literature…
Year Published: 2021
There is an increased interest in including green roofs in building legislation to enable green infrastructure and improve the built environments…
Year Published: 2019
Urban trees reduce CO2 and pollutants that represent a risk for human health in cities. In this work, we assessed the potential effect of heavy metals and environmental variables on the CO2 assimilation (A) and the stomatal conductace (gS) of Ligustrum lucidum, a common urban tree in Mexico City…
Year Published: 2016
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…
Author(s): Braun, Peter | Bruse, Michael | Esper, Jan | Hoffmann, David | Lindén, Jenny | Simon, Helge
Year Published: 2018
Increasing vegetation cover in cities is a key approach to mitigating urban heat excess. However, both the effect of vegetation on microclimate and the…
Year Published: 2021
We assess the impact of advanced heat-mitigation technologies in a coastal temperate city under heatwave conditions. For the first time urban-heating mitigation scenarios…
Year Published: 2013
Trees provide a variety of benefits to urban residents that are implicitly captured in the value of residential properties. We apply a spatial hedonic model to estimate the value of urban trees in 23 suburbs of Perth Metropolitan Area in Western Australia…
Author(s): Borański, Mikołaj | Skórka, Piotr | Splitt, Aleksandra | Strachecka, Aneta | Teper, Dariusz
Year Published: 2021
Development of urban agglomerations and the intensification of agriculture profoundly affect bees’ food resources, hence ecosystem services such as pollination…
Author(s): Baldwin, Louise | Beckman, Melanie | Butler, Harry J. | Downs, Nathan J. | Harrison, Simone | Parisi, Alfio V. | Vanos, Jennifer
Year Published: 2019
Standardised assessments comparing the surveyed shade quality characteristics of twenty-one trees currently established and growing in public parks and playgrounds in Queensland, Australia are presented for informing local government, shade designers and municipal planners…
