Decoupling forest characteristics and background conditions to explain urban-rural variations of multiple microclimate regulation from urban trees.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Rapid urbanization in semi-arid regions necessitates greater cooling, humidifying, and shading services from urban trees, but maximizing these services requires an exact understanding of their association with forest characteristics and background street and weather conditions.

Methods

Here, horizontal and vertical air cooling, soil cooling, shading, and humidifying effects were measured for 605 trees from 152 plots in Changchun. Additionally, weather conditions (Tair, relative humidity, and light intensity), forest characteristics (tree height, diameter at breast height (DBH), under-branch height, canopy size, tree density, and taxonomic family of trees) and background conditions (percentage of building, road, green space, water, and building height, building dis

SUBMITTER: Wang W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6098947 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature