Physiochemical screening of road avenue plants in better landscape management of highly polluted urbanized city (Lahore), Pakistan.

ABSTRACT: Lahore has been consistently ranked as the world's most polluted city. Because of combative ideas to construct highways, underpasses and flyovers, Lahore had lost a remarkable percentage of its tree cover over the past 15 years. The present study focuses on the outcomes of rapidly increasing air pollution on roadside vegetation. In current study, species such as Alstonia scholaris L., Bougainvillea spectabilis Willd., Dalbergia sissoo Roxb. Eucalyptus globulus Labill., Ficus virens Aiton, Ficus benjamina L., Ficus religiosa Linn., Morus alba L., Murraya paniculata L., Putranjiva roxburghii Wall., Polyalthia longifolia Sonn., Rubia tinctorum L. found on the seven busiest roads of Lahore were selected (on the

SUBMITTER: Munam B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12581913 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature