A review of urban ecosystem services: six key challenges for future research

C Luederitz, E Brink, F Gralla, V Hermelingmeier… - Ecosystem …, 2015 - Elsevier
Global urbanization creates opportunities and challenges for human well-being and
transition towards sustainability. Urban areas are human-environment systems that depend …

A systematic quantitative review of urban tree benefits, costs, and assessment methods across cities in different climatic zones

S Roy, J Byrne, C Pickering - Urban forestry & urban greening, 2012 - Elsevier
Urban trees can potentially mitigate environmental degradation accompanying rapid
urbanisation via a range of tree benefits and services. But uncertainty exists about the extent …

A survey of visual transformers

Y Liu, Y Zhang, Y Wang, F Hou, J Yuan… - … on Neural Networks …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Transformer, an attention-based encoder–decoder model, has already revolutionized the
field of natural language processing (NLP). Inspired by such significant achievements, some …

[HTML][HTML] The benefits and limits of urban tree planting for environmental and human health

DE Pataki, M Alberti, ML Cadenasso… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Many of the world's major cities have implemented tree planting programs based on
assumed environmental and social benefits of urban forests. Recent studies have …

Quantifying ecosystem services supply and demand shortfalls and mismatches for management optimisation

J Chen, B Jiang, Y Bai, X Xu, JM Alatalo - Science of the Total Environment, 2019 - Elsevier
Research on ecosystem services (ESs) has increased substantially in recent decades, but
the findings have been slow to affect actual management, perhaps because most studies to …

Efficiency of parks in mitigating urban heat island effect: An example from Addis Ababa

GL Feyisa, K Dons, H Meilby - Landscape and urban planning, 2014 - Elsevier
Urban green infrastructure can to a certain extent mitigate urban warming. However, the
cooling effect of plants varies with space, time and plant-specific properties. To contribute to …

Contribution of ecosystem services to air quality and climate change mitigation policies: the case of urban forests in Barcelona, Spain

J Blum - Urban Forests, 2017 - taylorfrancis.com
Urban forests, encompassing all trees, shrubs, lawns, and other vegetation in cities, provide
a variety of ecosystem services to city-dwellers, such as air purification, global climate …

An overview of carbon sequestration of green roofs in urban areas

M Shafique, X Xue, X Luo - Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 2020 - Elsevier
In urban areas, one way of mitigating the adverse effects of air pollution is the sustainable
rooftop practice known as green roofs. How green roofs can help reduce carbon emissions …

Urban forests and pollution mitigation: Analyzing ecosystem services and disservices

FJ Escobedo, T Kroeger, JE Wagner - Environmental pollution, 2011 - Elsevier
The purpose of this paper is to integrate the concepts of ecosystem services and disservices
when assessing the efficacy of using urban forests for mitigating pollution. A brief review of …

Ecosystem service bundles along the urban-rural gradient: Insights for landscape planning and management

F Baró, E Gómez-Baggethun, D Haase - Ecosystem Services, 2017 - Elsevier
A key challenge of landscape planning and management is coping with multiple ecosystem
service (ES) potentials and needs in complex social-ecological systems such as urban …