The provision of ecosystem services is a prominent rationale for urban greening, and there
is a prevailing mantra that ‘trees are good’. However, understanding how urban trees …

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

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 …

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 …

Urban forest conditions are driven by a range of biophysical and social factors, including
urban form, socioeconomic conditions, and municipal policy. However, relatively little attention …

Impervious surface is often used as an indicator of non-point source pollution in urban
areas due to the strong relationship between percent impervious surface cover and water-quality …

Urban forests provide a range of environmental, social, economic and health benefits, but
because the distribution of canopy cover is uneven across many metropolitan areas, there is …

Land use models provide a way to examine the impacts of future urbanization and alternative
land use regulations on the environment before irreversible changes are made. A simple …

Purpose – The ecological footprint represents a simple way to assess the amount of materials
consumed and waste produced by a given entity. The approach has been applied to …

Recent research has focused on the ways urban forest patterns vary in relation to level of
urbanization and socioeconomic characteristics, with most studies limited to one urban land …