Dendrochemistry: Ecosystem Services Perspectives for Urban Biomonitoring

Semeraro, Teodoro; Luvisi, Andrea; Bellis, Luigi De; Aretano, Roberta; Sacchelli, Sandro; Chirici, Gherardo; Marchetti, Marco; Cocozza, Claudia

doi:10.3389/fenvs.2020.558893

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“…For instance, dendrochemistry is a consolidated tool for detecting the release of contaminants from human activities over time and is applicable to tree sprawl that has been present for many years in the urban context, for example [89]. Consequently, the urban ecosystem characterised by trees can offer important spatial-temporal information that is classifiable as services and benefits (not included in the TEEB classification) that can be incorporated into urban planning processes [89][90][91].…”

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Planning of Urban Green Spaces: An Ecological Perspective on Human Benefits

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In the context of urban land-use growth and the consequent impacts on the environment, green spaces provide ecosystem services for human health. The ecosystem services concept synthesises human–environmental interactions through a series of combined components of biodiversity and abiotic elements, linking ecological processes and functions. The concept of green infrastructure (GI) in the urban context emphasises the quality and quantity of urban and peri-urban green spaces and natural areas. In dense urban contexts, the applications of GI are limited and not applied to the potential urban spaces such as roofs and gardens. Often, roofs are characterised by impermeable paved surfaces with negative effects on human well-being, whereas garden designs do not consider social needs and environmental interactions. The role of urban stressors or the urban context as a driving force or pressure of urban green space is not always well understood and employed in the planning of green spaces. This is partly due to a knowledge gap between different science disciplines that operate on different scales, from single processes of the plants (which focus on plant responses to environmental stresses affecting human well-being) to urban ecosystems (which focus on the biodiversity and urban space planning–human well-being relationship). This can create a paradox, as green spaces that are not adequately designed might not produce the expected effects. In this paper, an overview of benefits and limitations of applying the ecosystem services approach when designing green spaces is presented. The focus is on the main urban ecosystem services provided by green roofs and community gardens such as GI that can represent strategies to provide ecological and social multifunctionality to waterproofed surfaces connected to the buildings and low-exploited gardens being the main areas that affect dense urban settlements, and thus, increasing the ecosystem services in the urban environment, such as reducing the Urban Heat Island, as well as flooding events. Specifically, the paper highlights (i) feedback between ecological processes and functions that support ecosystem services, (ii) urban environmental stresses in relation to disservices that these can create for human well-being and (iii) key issues that should be considered in the planning and design of urban ecosystem services. Such a new vision of urban ecosystem services highlights the need to look at GI as an active part of the urban space design in the built environment.

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Planning of Urban Green Spaces: An Ecological Perspective on Human Benefits

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“…By analyzing the structure of tree rings, scientists can reconstruct past climate patterns and study the effects of environmental changes on tree growth [41]. This information can be used to better understand the ecology of the region, predict future changes, and inform conservation efforts [42].…”

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Using XRF to Analyze Metals in Felled Trees on a Suburban New York College Campus

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A field sampling event was conducted to measure the concentrations of metals within the trunks of felled trees on a college campus east of New York City. Heavy metals, particularly chromium, were found present in the soils surrounding the sampled trees, allowing for a correlation coefficient to be calculated with soil and tree concentrations. A statistically significant Pearson correlation was found between these two concentrations among the samples. This study is aimed at providing researchers a starting point for their research a better understanding of local ecologies, prediction of future change, and dissemination of conservation efforts.

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“…Natural capital can be defined as a flow of ecosystem services provided by the world's stock of natural resources, including biodiversity, soil, water, and air [4][5][6]. In addition, it is characterized by ecological processes and structures that are the basis for ecosystem services, and new knowledge in combination with new technologies can influence the capacity of humans to achieve new goods and services from nature, increasing ecosystem service provisioning [2,7].…”

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Impact of Climate Change on Agroecosystems and Potential Adaptation Strategies

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Leggieri³

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Agriculture is currently one of the leading economic sectors most impacted by climate change. Due to its great field of application and its susceptibility to meteorological variability, the effects of climate change on agriculture have significant social and economic consequences for human well-being. Moreover, the increasing need for land spaces for population growth has produced strong competition between food and urbanization, leading to a loss of the agroecosystem that supports food security. This review aims to understand the main risks generated by climate change in agricultural production and the potential strategies that can be applied to increase agriculture’s resilience. Agricultural risk can be linked to the decrease in the productivity of foods, weed overgrowth at the crops expense, increase in parasites, water availability, soil alteration, negative impact on production costs and consequent change in the adopted cultivars, reduction in the pollination process, intense fires, and alteration of product quality. Thus, climate change can impact the provisioning of ecosystem services, reducing food security in terms of quantity and quality for future generations. Finally, in this review, we report the main adaptation strategies to increase agroecosystem resilience in adverse environments generated by climate change. Mainly, we highlight new technologies, such as new breeding technologies and agrivoltaic and smart agricultural applications, which, combined with agroecosystems, can reduce the agricultural risks following climate change (for example, drought events and low availability of water). We suggest that the combination of natural capital and technologies can be defined as an “innovation-based solution” able to support and increase ecosystem service flow in agroecosystems.

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Dendrochemistry: Ecosystem Services Perspectives for Urban Biomonitoring

Cited by 8 publications

References 28 publications

Planning of Urban Green Spaces: An Ecological Perspective on Human Benefits

Planning of Urban Green Spaces: An Ecological Perspective on Human Benefits

Using XRF to Analyze Metals in Felled Trees on a Suburban New York College Campus

Impact of Climate Change on Agroecosystems and Potential Adaptation Strategies

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