How a Green Roof Becomes Biodiverse: Vegetation Analysis on a Green Roof with no Maintenance in Rome (Italy).

ABSTRACT: Green roofs have increasingly been used in urban contexts to increase thermal insulation, provide habitat for species, and increase urban biodiversity. Here, we provide the results of a monitoring experiment to document (1) the survival rate of planted species of a green roof with no maintenance and (2) the natural colonization by new species of the same roof. Each month for one year, we conducted floristic and vegetation surveys, identifying the species of colonizers and monitoring the cover of both planted and wild species. We conducted various statistical tests to determine the driving factors of spontaneous plants' colonization of the unattended green roof. Among the planted species, several Mediterranean species thrived despite the lack of irrigation, and among these, Thymus serpyl

SUBMITTER: Bellini A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12567229 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature