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Urban and Peri-Urban Forests—Status, Ecosystem Services, and Future Perspectives
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Urban and Peri-Urban Forests—Status, Ecosystem Services, and Future Perspectives

A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X). This special issue belongs to the section "Landscape Ecology".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2024 | Viewed by 4154

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Dr. Miglena Zhiyanski

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Forest Research Institute - BAS 132, Kl. Ohridski Blvd. 1756 Sofia, Bulgaria
Interests: forest ecology and management; urban forestry; adaptation strategies; social forest policy; soil science; carbon dynamics; ecosystem services; biodiversity
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Dear Colleagues,

The role of urban forests in mitigating local climate and in providing a wide range of ecosystem services depends on their condition, spatial characteristics, management, and ability to adapt to global change drivers, such as more frequent climate extreme events, changes in atmospheric pollutants, and anthropogenic pressures. Different drivers could play a synergistic, antagonistic, or predisposing role in affecting urban forest ecosystem functioning and health. The Special Issue aims to present recent results and achievements in research related to peri-urban and urban forests status, their responses to global change and different anthropogenic impacts, ecosystem service provisioning, and the implementation of nature-based solutions to promote mutual synergies in fulfilling the urgent need for evidence-based solutions to policy, societal, and technological challenges.

Dr. Miglena Zhiyanski
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Keywords

  • urban forests
  • green infrastructure
  • nature-based solutions
  • ecosystem services (ES)
  • assessment and mapping of ES
  • socio-ecological assessments

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Carbon Sequestration by Native Tree Species around the Industrial Areas of Southern Punjab, Pakistan
by Muhammad Zubair, Ghulam Yasin, Sehrish Khan Qazlbash, Ahsan Ul Haq, Akash Jamil, Muhammad Yaseen, Shafeeq Ur Rahman and Wei Guo
Land 2022, 11(9), 1577; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11091577 - 15 Sep 2022
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Industries have been a major culprit in increasing carbonaceous emissions and major contributors to global warming over the past decades. Factories in the urban periphery tend to warm cities more as compared with rural surroundings. Recently, nature-based solutions have been promoted to provide [...] Read more.
Industries have been a major culprit in increasing carbonaceous emissions and major contributors to global warming over the past decades. Factories in the urban periphery tend to warm cities more as compared with rural surroundings. Recently, nature-based solutions have been promoted to provide solutions related to climate adaptations and mitigation issues and challenges. Among these solutions, urban trees have proven to be an effective solution to remove air pollutants and mitigate air pollution specifically caused by carbon emissions. This work was designed to assess the role of tree species in mitigating air emissions of carbon around the vicinity of various industrial sites. For this purpose, three different industrial sites (weaving, brick kiln, and cosmetic) were selected to collect data. Selected industrial sites were divided into two areas, i.e., (a) area inside the industry and (b) area outside the industry. The samples were collected from 100 square meters inside the industries and 100 square meters outside the industries. Five different trees species comprised of four replications were selected for sampling. About twenty trees species from inside and outside of the industries were measured, making it 120 trees from all three selected industries for estimating aboveground and belowground biomass, showing their carbon estimation. The results showed that Moringa oleifera depicted overall higher total biomass from both inside (2.58, 0.56, and 4.57 Mg ha−1) and outside sites from all three selected industries. In terms of total carbon stock and carbon sequestration inside the industry sites, Syzygium cumini had the most dominant values in the weaving industry (2.82 and 10.32 Mg ha−1) and brick kiln (3.78 and 13.5 Mg ha−1), while in the cosmetic industry sites, Eucalyptus camaldulensis depicted higher carbon, stock, and sequestration values (7.83 and 28.70 Mg ha−1). In comparison, the sites outside the industries’ vicinity depicted overall lower carbon, stock, and sequestration values. The most dominant tree inside came out to be Dalbergia sisso (0.97 and 3.54 Mg ha−1) in the weaving industry sites, having higher values of carbon stock and carbon sequestration. Moringa oliefra (1.26 and 4.63) depicted dominant values in brick kiln sites, while in the cosmetic industry, Vachellia nilotica (2.51 and 9.19 Mg ha−1) displayed maximum values as compared with other species. The findings regarding belowground biomass and carbon storage indicate that the amount of soil carbon decreased with the increase in depth; higher soil carbon stock values were depicted at a 0–20 cm depth inside and outside the industries. The study concludes that forest tree species present inside and outside the vicinity of various industries have strong potential in mitigating air emissions. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Urban and Peri-Urban Forests—Status, Ecosystem Services, and Future Perspectives)
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