Where to plant urban trees? A spatially explicit methodology to explore ecosystem service tradeoffs

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 157, Issue , 2017, Pages 457-467

  Bodnaruk, E W ^a   Kroll, C N ^a   Yang, Y ^b   Hirabayashi, S ^c   Nowak, D J ^b   Endreny, T A ^a  

^a 402 Baker Laboratory   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^c Davey Tree Expert Company   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecosystem services; Priority planting; Spatial pattern; Tradeoffs; Urban forestry

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; COMMERCE; LOCATION BASED SERVICES; REFORESTATION;

ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; PRIORITY PLANTING; SPATIAL PATTERNS; TRADEOFFS; URBAN FORESTRY;

ECOSYSTEMS;

COST ANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; FOREST MANAGEMENT; METHODOLOGY; OPTIMIZATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TRADE-OFF; TREE PLANTING; URBAN FORESTRY; URBAN PLANNING; URBANIZATION;

BALTIMORE; MARYLAND; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84987932347     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2016.08.016     Document Type: Article

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