Amount of water runoff from different vegetation types on extensive green roofs: Effects of plant species, diversity and plant structure

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 104, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 356-363

  Nagase, Ayako ^a   Dunnett, Nigel ^b  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Plant selection; Species richness; Stormwater management; Urban hydrology; Urban landscape

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING GEOLOGY; HYDROLOGY; MIXTURES; RUNOFF; STORM SEWERS; STORMS; VEGETATION;

PLANT SELECTION; SPECIES RICHNESS; STORM-WATER MANAGEMENTS; URBAN HYDROLOGY; URBAN LANDSCAPE;

ROOFS;

DIAMETER; GRASS; GREENSPACE; PHYTOMASS; PHYTOREMEDIATION; ROOT-SHOOT RATIO; RUNOFF; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; STORMWATER; URBAN AREA; VEGETATION TYPE; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

CRASSULACEAE; POACEAE; SEDUM;

EID: 84855531609     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2011.11.001     Document Type: Article

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