Soil-Based Green Roofs

Best, Brooke; Swadek, Rebecca K.; Burgess, T.

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-14983-7_6

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“…While the study plants did best in the traditional green roof substrate, these recycled materials show promise as components of green roof substrates and can reduce the amount of embodied energy required to formulate green roof substrates (Eksi and Rowe 2016). Using native soils as amendments to green roof substrates can help green roofers attempt to recreate habitat for the microorganisms, flora, and fauna of an ecosystem and therefore possibly find a home on a green roof (Best et al 2015).…”

Section: Substratesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The Minnesota studies list native plants and speculate on key abiotic variables such as supplemental irrigation. Local ecomimicry has been popular in botanic gardens and institutes including, prairies (Hawke 2015), semi-arid deserts (Schneider et al 2014), and barrens (Best et al 2015). Comprehensive establishment studies of upper Midwestern prairie species have been published in reports, including rating early-stage behavior, such as reseeding in 4-, 6-, and 8-inch depths, (Hawke 2015).…”

Section: Ecomimicrymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Green Roof Research in North America: A Recent History and Future Strategies

Bousselot¹,

Russell²,

Tolderlund³

et al. 2020

JLIV

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Since the year 2000, green roof and living architecture research has progressed significantly in North America. For future growth in the implementation of living architecture, there is still a great need for additional and expanded research on green roofs and as yet undefined innovative J. of Living Arch 7(1) Feature 28 green infrastructure. This paper provides an overview of priority topics that have been critical to past success in green roofs, and those that are promising but need future investment, including urban heat island (UHI), energy savings, stormwater (quantity and quality), substrates, carbon budgets, plants, biodiversity, ecomimicry, biodispersal, long-term dynamics, urban food production, synergy with solar panels and financing green solutions.

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Section: Substratesmentioning

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Section: Ecomimicrymentioning

confidence: 99%

Green Roof Research in North America: A Recent History and Future Strategies

Bousselot¹,

Russell²,

Tolderlund³

et al. 2020

JLIV

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“…The organic part of the substrates aims to provide the nutrients needed for plant development (including through the promotion of soil biodiversity and its associated functions) and is usually peat (Nardini et al, 2011) or compost from recycled organic waste. The use of high organic matter substrates (or even of natural soils) is however subject to controversies (Best et al, 2015). On the one hand, their use enhances the soil micro-and macro-diversity, and nutrient cycling and retention.…”

Section: What Is a Green Roof Substrate?mentioning

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Role of substrate properties in the provision of multifunctional green roof ecosystem services

Lata

Dusza

Abbadie

et al. 2018

Applied Soil Ecology

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Urban ecosystems are increasingly recognized as key providers of ecosystem services. Among them, green roofs are particularly fashionable, and are in high demand by citizens, politicians, urban planners and architects. Surprisingly, the functioning of green roofs and the impact of substrate type have been so far poorly studied and impede to optimize a green roof and its substrate to provide targeted services. This article thus discusses the different types of substrate that can be used for green roof and outlines the possible consequences for green roof functioning.

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“…Design can also play a key role in whether biological legacy of natural ecosystems can contribute to constructed ecosystems. Green roofs using natural soils instead of the commonly applied artificial substrates represents a way of incorporating some ecological memory into a constructed ecosystem (Best et al, 2015). Bioaugmentation of bioreactor microbial consortiums is an analogous procedure in a different system (Todd and Josephson, 1996;Curtis and Sloan, 2004).…”

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The ecology and evolution of constructed ecosystems as green infrastructure

Lundholm

2015

Front. Ecol. Evol.

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Green infrastructure consists of ecosystems that provide valuable services to urban areas. Constructed ecosystems, including green roofs, bioretention systems, constructed wetlands and bioreactors are artificial, custom-built components of green infrastructure that are becoming more common in cities. Small size, strong spatial boundaries, ecological novelty and the role of human design characterize all constructed ecosystems, influencing their functions and interactions with other urban ecosystems. Here I outline the relevance of ecology and evolution in understanding the functioning of constructed ecosystems. In turn, a research focus on the distinctive aspects of constructed ecosystems can contribute to fundamental science.

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Soil-Based Green Roofs

Cited by 19 publications

References 51 publications

Green Roof Research in North America: A Recent History and Future Strategies

Green Roof Research in North America: A Recent History and Future Strategies

Role of substrate properties in the provision of multifunctional green roof ecosystem services

The ecology and evolution of constructed ecosystems as green infrastructure

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