Effects of urban tree pruning on ecosystem services performance

Muscas, Desirée; Orlandi, Fabio; Petrucci, Roberto; Proietti, Chiara; Ruga, Luigia; Fornaciari, Marco

doi:10.1016/j.tfp.2024.100503

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“…Hence, newly planted or ancient individuals have suboptimal performance compared to parks with both young and adult trees, highlighting the importance of having unevenly aged trees simultaneously to optimizing the environmental performances over the mediumto long-term. Additionally, being related to the tree size [40,41] and the designed space available for their growth [20,42,43], the pruning typology performed by the administration may influence their ecosystem services performance [21]. For example, extraordinary pruning with the removal of more than 50% of the crown may decrease the carbon stored by trees, unbalance tree growth, and reduce the LA.…”

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“…Therefore, the Clivut project proposes, as good practice, reducing the pruning intervals, limiting the wood asportation to a maximum of 25% of the crown, and absolutely avoiding cutting branches with diameters greater than 15 cm. According to the LIFE Clivut results [21], with the same management conditions, the best-performing tree species individuated were the Cedrus spp. and some species of the Pinus genera for conifers and Celtis australis, Ulmus spp., Tilia spp., Quercus ilex, and Populus spp.…”

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“…The assessing methods for these ES, even if already covered in other publications [17,18,20,21], will be briefly summarized in the following sections. All web-app databases and functions of the web app are open-source and accessible through any internet browser through https://lifeclivut.treedb.eu/ and are suitable for GIS applications.…”

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Mitigating the negative impacts of climate change in urban areas has recently become essential to improving citizens’ living conditions. Trees are one of the most effective ways to attenuate the Heat Island phenomenon in cities, and numerous projects have been carried out to calculate tree ecosystem services (ES) provisioning. Among these, the Clivut European project (LIFE 18 GIC/IT/001217) developed a web app to allow citizens and the public administration to quantify the ES provided by the most common tree species. The present study aims to consider a new model to calculate the tree evapotranspiration cooling effect in the urban environment in terms of CO2-compensated emissions. The model directly converts the surface temperature change produced by tree evapotranspiration into the corresponding CO2 offset in four urban parks in two Italian cities (Bologna and Perugia). The considered parks stored 1100 t of CO2 at the time of the study, while the CO2 compensated is 860 t, showing the significance of this interpretation. As a result of the study, it can be concluded that the presented model will allow a better estimation of the potential trees’ climate change compensation and also add further functionality to the web app.

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“…The equations most responsive to the characteristics of the plants involved in this study were chosen. The "Lifeclivuttreedb" platform, based on the species identification and DBH sampling, evaluated the height and age of each tree, providing carbon storage estimates expressed in tons of CO 2 equivalent [19]. Carbon storage was based on the different ages, crown sizes, growth rates and pruning techniques for estimating tree biomass through volumetric equations (m 3 /tree) from diameter to breast height (DBH in centimeters) and crown height (h in meters).…”

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This study focuses on the possibility of using fruit tree species, from an urban area in central Italy, to evaluate their possible productive, ecosystem, and economic contribution. The realization of the food forest was conducted through the use of a web app that can evaluate the climatic and ecosystem performance of trees in the city. This simulation can provide the city’s government with useful information on the ecosystem and the socioeconomic benefits of planting fruit trees in an urban park. Among the four chosen species, both Ficus carica and Morus nigra showed good potential fruit production of 1300 kg and 865 kg and a CO2 storage of 2.5 and 1.5 tons. The production and economic potentials from selling the fruits of the selected species were evaluated, and the Morus nigra species showed the highest economic value over a 50-year period of about 6000 USD, with an average price of 7 USD/kg. Another positive aspect of edible food forest landscapes is their ability to give rise to an ecosystem and habitat that can attract animals, birds, and wildlife, consequently improving urban ecosystem biodiversity.

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Effects of urban tree pruning on ecosystem services performance

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