Live fast, die young: Accelerated growth, mortality, and turnover in street trees.

ABSTRACT: Municipalities are embracing greening initiatives as a key strategy for improving urban sustainability and combatting the environmental impacts of expansive urbanization. Many greening initiatives include goals to increase urban canopy cover through tree planting, however, our understanding of street tree ecosystem dynamics is limited and our understanding of vegetation structure and function based on intact, rural forests does not apply well to urban ecosystems. In this study, we estimate size-specific growth, mortality, and planting rates in trees under municipal control, use a box model to forecast short-term changes in street tree aboveground carbon pools under several planting and management scenarios, and compare our findings to rural, forested systems. We find accelerated rates of c

SUBMITTER: Smith IA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6505744 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature