Objectives: In the “dual evaluation” of land space, evaluation importance ecosystem service functions and residential areas is important, playing a significant role in plants acting as carbon sinks thereby achieving transformation low-carbon settlements. Methods: The paper compares analyzes five models for quantifying sink benefits focuses on national tree benefit calculator (NTBC) model, which...

High-resolution pollen analyses were performed on two cores from the western Black Sea and one core Marmara Sea, covering Late Glacial-Holocene transition using 14C chronology. Particular effort was invested in botanical identification of grains thereby significantly improving our knowledge regional flora. When interpreted with respect to modern vegetation, records revealed all major changes ca...

Phytoremediation is an important solution to heavy metal pollution in soil. However, the impact of plants on microbial communities contaminated soil also requires attention. Community-level physiological profiling (CLPP) based Biolog™ EcoPlate and high-throughput sequencing were used study community this article. The rhizosphere bulk samples six native species collected from iron mine tailings ...

BACKGROUND The functional convergence of tree transpiration has rarely been tested for tree species growing under urban conditions even though it is of significance to elucidate the relationship between functional convergence and species differences of urban trees for establishing sustainable urban forests in the context of forest water relations. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS We measured sa...

Reducing air pollution is a crucial challenge in urban areas. In this regard, green infrastructures could play pivotal role. the literature, scholars analyzed both ability of species-specific and layout-specific to reduce best location sites new increase provision overall ecosystem services. There lack studies helping planners designers choose where which infrastructure implement based on veget...