Natural selection? Picking the right trees for urban greening

Environmental Science and Policy

Volumn 47, Issue , 2015, Pages 12-17

  Churkina, G ^a,c   Grote, R ^a,b   Butler, T M ^a   Lawrence, M ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED SUSTAINABILITY STUDIES   (Germany)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Ground level ozone; NOx; Urban areas; Urban trees; VOC emissions

Indexed keywords

BIOGENIC VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND; OZONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

AGRICULTURE; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; NATURAL SELECTION; SUBURBAN AREA; TREE; URBAN AREA; VEGETATION;

EID: 84911416506     PISSN: 14629011     EISSN: 18736416     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2014.10.014     Document Type: Article

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