Assessing the Effects of the Urban Forest Restoration Effort of MillionTreesNYC on the Structure and Functioning of New York City Ecosystems

Assessing the Effects of the Urban Forest Restoration Effort of MillionTreesNYC on the Structure and Functioning of New York City Ecosystems

Current forest restoration practices for New York City’s (NYC) MillionTreesNYC Initiative on public parkland include site preparation with extensive invasive species removal and tree and shrub planting with the goal of creating new multi-layered forests. We have launched a long-term investigation of...

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Main Authors: P. Timon McPhearson, Michael Feller, Alexander Felson, Richard Karty, Jacqueline W.T. Lu, Matthew I. Palmer, Tim Wenskus
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Loyola Marymount University 2010-01-01
Series:Cities and the Environment
Subjects:
Urban Ecosystems
forest
structure
function
restoration
New York City
MillionTreesNYC
Online Access:http://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/cate/vol3/iss1/7/

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http://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/cate/vol3/iss1/7/

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