Comparing relationships between urban heat exposure, ecological structure, and socio-economic patterns in Beijing and New York City

J Wang, T McPhearson, W Zhou, EM Cook… - Landscape and Urban …, 2023 - Elsevier
Heat stress is projected to intensify in the coming decades and through the 2 end of the 21st
Century (Coffel et al. 2018). Cities, where the majority of the 3 human population lives, are …

Greening residential quarters in China: What are the roles of urban form, socioeconomic factors, and biophysical context?

L Hu, C Fan, Z Cai, W Liao, X Li - Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 2023 - Elsevier
Residential greenspace has great intracity variations. Its driving factors have been widely
investigated in Western countries (eg, in Europe and North America), where residential …

Object-based classification of urban plant species from very high-resolution satellite imagery

P Sicard, F Coulibaly, M Lameiro, V Araminiene… - Urban Forestry & Urban …, 2023 - Elsevier
Cities are facing too many challenges. Urban vegetation, in particular trees, are essential as
they provide services in terms of air pollution mitigation, freshness, biodiversity, and citizens' …

[HTML][HTML] Tokyo's Urban Tree Challenge: Decline in tree canopy cover in Tokyo from 2013 to 2022

K Shiraishi, T Terada - Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 2024 - Elsevier
The important contributions of urban trees and green spaces to climate moderation, disaster
mitigation, and public health have been widely recognized. Tree canopy cover is one of the …

Urban sprawl characterization and its impact on peri-urban agriculture in Sidi Bel Abbes, Algeria, using multi-date landsat imagery

D Mansour, SA Souiah, MEA Larabi, K Bakhti - GeoJournal, 2023 - Springer
Identifying and characterizing the spatiotemporal dynamics of urban areas is mandatory in
many disciplines, eg, in environmental studies, infrastructure, and agriculture. The current …

Trends in post‐1950 riparian vegetation recovery in coastal catchments of NSW Australia: implications for remote sensing analysis, forecasting and river management

N Zhang, K Fryirs - Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Extensive riparian vegetation clearance occurred in many rivers of southeastern Australia
throughout the 19th and 20th century, post colonisation. With improvements in river …

Assessment of NO2 Purification by Urban Forests Based on the i-Tree Eco Model: Case Study in Beijing, China

C Gong, C Xian, Z Ouyang - Forests, 2022 - mdpi.com
Air quality issues caused by nitrogen dioxide (NO2) have become increasingly serious in
Chinese cities in recent years. As important urban green infrastructure, urban forests can …

Rapid Identification of Main Vegetation Types in the Lingkong Mountain Nature Reserve Based on Multi-Temporal Modified Vegetation Indices

W Fang, H Zhu, S Li, H Ding, R Bi - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
Nature reserves are among the most bio-diverse regions worldwide, and rapid and accurate
identification is a requisite for their management. Based on the multi-temporal Sentinel-2 …

Investigating domestic gardens landscape plant diversity, implications for valuable plant species conservation

SD Al-Kofahi, AM Al-Kafawin… - Environment …, 2024 - Springer
Urbanization has resulted in deterioration of natural lands and extinction of indigenous
species. Domestic gardens are neglected spots of plants biodiversity. This research aimed …

Different impacts of urbanization on ecosystem services supply and demand across old, new and non-urban areas in the ChangZhuTan urban agglomeration, China

J Li, J Wang, W Zhou - Landscape Ecology, 2024 - Springer
Objectives Revealing differences impacts of urbanization on ESs supply and demand across
old, new and non-urban areas. Methods First, we quantified the supply and demand of four …