Plant cover and floristic composition effect on thermal behaviour ofextensive green roofs

Building and Environment

Volumn 92, Issue , 2015, Pages 305-316

  Bevilacqua, Piero ^a   Coma, Julià ^b   Pérez, Gabriel ^b   Chocarro, Cristina ^b   Juárez, Alejandro ^b   Solé, Cristian ^b   De Simone, Marilena ^a   Cabeza, Luisa F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Extensive green roofs; Floristic composition; Plant cover; Thermal behaviour

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; SUN; VEGETATION;

CONSTRUCTION SYSTEMS; CONTINENTAL CLIMATE; EXTENSIVE GREEN ROOFS; FLORISTIC COMPOSITIONS; SUSTAINABLE SYSTEMS; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL CHANGES; THERMAL BEHAVIOURS; THERMAL PERFORMANCE;

ROOFS;

BUILDING; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FLORISTICS; ROOF; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; VEGETATION COVER;

CATALONIA; LERIDA [CATALONIA]; LERIDA [LERIDA (PRV)]; SPAIN;

SEDUM;

EID: 84929626478     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2015.04.026     Document Type: Article

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