Tree survival is a performance metric for urban forestry initiatives, and an understanding of
the factors that influence mortality can help managers target resources and enhance …

Urban Evapotranspiration (ET) plays a crucial role in controlling irrigation water demand.
The estimation of urban ET is difficult because of high spatial variability of urban surfaces …

The Million Trees LA initiative intends to improve Los Angeles's environment through
planting and stewardship of 1 million trees. The purpose of this study was to measure Los …

Modeling the climate of urban areas is of interest for studying urban heat islands (UHIs).
Reliable assessment of the primary causes of UHIs and the efficacy of various heat …

Urban forests are increasingly being seen as an important infrastructure that can help cities
remediate their environmental impacts. This work reports on the first steps in implementing a …

Satellite observations of the total column dry‐air CO2 (XCO2) are expected to support the
quantification and monitoring of fossil fuel CO2 (ffCO2) emissions from urban areas. We …

The aesthetic, economic, and environmental benefits of urban trees are well recognized.
Previous research has focused on understanding how a variety of social and environmental …

Research demonstrating the biophysical benefits of urban trees are often used to justify
investments in urban forestry. Far less emphasis, however, is placed on the non-bio-physical …

Much has been made of the need for cities to become more sustainable, particularly since
for the first time in human history over half of the world's population are urban dwellers …

Old-growth forests (OGF) provide valuable ecosystem services such as habitat provision,
carbon sequestration or recreation maintaining biodiversity, carbon storage, or human well …