Cooling and humidifying effect of plant communities in subtropical urban parks

Urban Forestry and Urban Greening

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 323-329

  Zhang, Zhe ^a   Lv, Yingmin ^a,b   Pan, Huitang ^a,b  

^a BEIJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b National Engineering Research Center for Floriculture   (China)

Author keywords

Microclimate; Plant community structure; Small scale plant landscape; Urban greening

Indexed keywords

BAMBOO; CANOPY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; COOLING; HEAT ISLAND; HEIGHT; MICROCLIMATE; PLANT COMMUNITY; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SOLAR RADIATION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; VEGETATION;

CHINA; GUANGDONG; SHENZHEN;

EID: 84881555803     PISSN: 16188667     EISSN: 16108167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ufug.2013.03.010     Document Type: Article

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