Species-Specific Information for Enhancing Ecosystem Services

Abstract

Understanding the multiple processes involved in the interactions between urban trees and their surrounding environment is of the utmost importance to determine the relationship between them and to assess what might happen under altered condi-tions such as those imposed by climate change or by increasing concentrations of air pollutants. In order to meet this objective and to evaluate the impact on different ecosystem services they provide, the numerous interactions between trees and their urban environment have to be considered holistically.