Urbanization decreases native species diversity by converting natural landscapes to
anthropogenic cityscapes, and it indirectly degrades native species diversity in remaining …

The restoration of degraded forests to enhance biodiversity, ecosystem services, as well as
climate change mitigation and adaptation is now a major priority in cities around the world …

Effective planning of a large-scale restoration project is challenging, because of the range of
factors that need to be considered (eg restoration of multiple habitats with varying …

Urban expansion increases the need for, and pressure on, green areas. Reforestation
projects in the rural–urban fringe represent an opportunity for enhancing the environmental …

Assessing tree growth trends over time is a central but challenging aspect of urban forest
management. The potential damage caused by invasive devices used in …

Despite a growing theoretical understanding of restoration ecology, this scientific knowledge
is not typically well linked to restoration practitioner decision-making. Urban restoration …

The central argument in this thesis is that workplace users' health, well-being and
productivity are affected by indoor environmental quality (IEQ) and that their overall …

Anthropogenic activities worldwide have caused ecological degradation that has resulted in
the need to mitigate damage to essential ecosystem services in rural and urban areas. Plant …

Urbanization causes a variety of negative ecological impacts, impairing forests, streams, and
other ecosystems. While urban forests are the subject of increasing research attention …

Soils in urban natural areas can be highly variable due to legacies of land use change that
include excavation of existing soils and dumping of construction debris or other …