(Urban) forest resilience
While our urban forests are critical for hosting biodiversity and providing ecosystem services in a changing world - they are also vulnerable to global change (climate change, insect outbreaks...) themselves. How can we ensure that our future urban forests are set up to succeed in a changing world?
Example people and projects:
While our urban forests are critical for hosting biodiversity and providing ecosystem services in a changing world - they are also vulnerable to global change (climate change, insect outbreaks...) themselves. How can we ensure that our future urban forests are set up to succeed in a changing world?
Example people and projects:
- Understanding spongy moth outbreaks (and potential control mechanisms) in human dominated forests (Noa Davidai and Despland lab)
- Improving inventories of urban forest structure and diversity, including private land (with PaqLab)
Related projects
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Cross-city Drivers for Ecosystem Services
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Private trees in Montreal
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Tree inventory project
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Related Publications
Hutt-Taylor K, Ziter CD. 2022. Private trees contribute uniquely to urban forest diversity, structure, and service-based traits. Urban Forestry and Urban Greening 78: 127760