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Urban forests provide municipalities with a suite of benefits and services, and help mitigate the effects of climate change notably, serving to reduce the impact of local warming and urban heat island effects. The gradient of winter climates that exists on the island of Newfoundland (NL) provides a...
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ftdatacite:10.48336/w093-8k23 2023-07-23T04:20:24+02:00 Searching for climate change solutions in Newfoundland’s urban forests ... Pearson, Erin 2023 https://dx.doi.org/10.48336/w093-8k23 https://research.library.mun.ca/15937/ en eng Memorial University of Newfoundland Text article-journal ScholarlyArticle 2023 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.48336/w093-8k23 2023-07-03T19:11:11Z Urban forests provide municipalities with a suite of benefits and services, and help mitigate the effects of climate change notably, serving to reduce the impact of local warming and urban heat island effects. The gradient of winter climates that exists on the island of Newfoundland (NL) provides a unique natural laboratory to investigate the influence of urban forest canopy cover on both winter and summer temperature changes, and assess the potential for the island to act as a model for future forest conditions throughout mainland Canada. Using this natural laboratory, we characterize the impact of NL urban forests on summer temperatures; however, microclimatic influences on winter appear to be dominated by other factors (e.g., wind exposure). Structural and ecological characteristics of urban forests changed throughout the urban ecosystem, influencing how closely different urban forest regions resemble natural forests, and amplifying the need for alternative indicators of ecological integrity that better ... Text Newfoundland DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Canada |
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Urban forests provide municipalities with a suite of benefits and services, and help mitigate the effects of climate change notably, serving to reduce the impact of local warming and urban heat island effects. The gradient of winter climates that exists on the island of Newfoundland (NL) provides a unique natural laboratory to investigate the influence of urban forest canopy cover on both winter and summer temperature changes, and assess the potential for the island to act as a model for future forest conditions throughout mainland Canada. Using this natural laboratory, we characterize the impact of NL urban forests on summer temperatures; however, microclimatic influences on winter appear to be dominated by other factors (e.g., wind exposure). Structural and ecological characteristics of urban forests changed throughout the urban ecosystem, influencing how closely different urban forest regions resemble natural forests, and amplifying the need for alternative indicators of ecological integrity that better ... |
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