Evaluating urban park ecosystem services and modeling improvement scenarios.

ABSTRACT: Three ecosystem services of the 25 public parks in Bangkok, including carbon sequestration, avoided runoff, four air pollutant removals (CO, NO₂, PM₁₀, and PM_2.5), and the relevant monetary values, were determined using i-Tree Eco software. Two modeling scenarios (MS) including MS1 (no greening improvement) and MS2 (improvement by increasing either green area or tree planting, or both in the parks) with tree annual mortality rates (AMR) of 1 and 3% were developed to forecast the parks' ecosystem services for 50 years after 2020 (2021-2071). The results revealed the synergistic interactions of the different tree planting specifications (MS1 and MS2) and tree mortality rates on the parks' ecosystem services. For MC2 with the assigned 1% AMR, the parks' optima

SUBMITTER: Singkran N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10724533 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature