The effect of street trees and amenity grass on urban surface water runoff in Manchester, UK

Urban Forestry and Urban Greening

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 282-286

  Armson, D ^a   Stringer, P ^b   Ennos, A R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b Red Rose Forest   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amenity grass; Flooding; Interception; Runoff; Urban trees

Indexed keywords

AMENITY; ASPHALT; CANOPY; FLOODING; GRASS; RUNOFF; SURFACE WATER; URBANIZATION;

ENGLAND; MANCHESTER [ENGLAND]; MANCHESTER [MANCHESTER (DST)]; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84881558353     PISSN: 16188667     EISSN: 16108167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ufug.2013.04.001     Document Type: Article

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