Low-maintenance subtropical green roofs. Spontaneous vegetation and substrate deph
Spontaneous and ruderal plants can be the key to a low-cost, low-maintenance urban Green Infrastructure that can adapt to the local climate context. In addition to providing a wide range of Ecosystem Services, such species can survive in environments altered by humans and withstand conditions adver...
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Spontaneous and ruderal plants can be the key to a low-cost, low-maintenance urban Green Infrastructure that can adapt to the local climate context. In addition to providing a wide range of Ecosystem Services, such species can survive in environments altered by humans and withstand conditions adverse to them, such as water scarcity and shallow substrate. The paper aims to systematically identify the effects exerted by substrate depth during the first months of vegetation growth using the Point-Intercept method in low-maintenance extensive green roofs. Contrary to previous research focusing on vegetation growth in temperate climates, experimentation in a humid subtropical climate can help to fill a gap by assessing the long-term potential of roofs with heterogeneous spontaneous species establishment to improve urban ecology and its natural regeneration.
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| spelling | doaj-art-1f2d18723649404bac0f3efb0d4201602025-02-02T16:12:41ZengLetteraVentidue SrlAgathón2464-93092532-683X2022-06-0111online10.19229/2464-9309/11232022Low-maintenance subtropical green roofs. Spontaneous vegetation and substrate dephBrenda Chaves Coelho Leite0Lucas Gobatti1Isabela Gamba Huttenlocher2University of São Paulo (Brazil)University of São Paulo (Brazil)University of São Paulo (Brazil) Spontaneous and ruderal plants can be the key to a low-cost, low-maintenance urban Green Infrastructure that can adapt to the local climate context. In addition to providing a wide range of Ecosystem Services, such species can survive in environments altered by humans and withstand conditions adverse to them, such as water scarcity and shallow substrate. The paper aims to systematically identify the effects exerted by substrate depth during the first months of vegetation growth using the Point-Intercept method in low-maintenance extensive green roofs. Contrary to previous research focusing on vegetation growth in temperate climates, experimentation in a humid subtropical climate can help to fill a gap by assessing the long-term potential of roofs with heterogeneous spontaneous species establishment to improve urban ecology and its natural regeneration. http://www.agathon.it/agathon/article/view/309green roofsspontaneous vegetationbiodiversitycolonizationnature-based solutions |
| spellingShingle | Brenda Chaves Coelho Leite Lucas Gobatti Isabela Gamba Huttenlocher Low-maintenance subtropical green roofs. Spontaneous vegetation and substrate deph Agathón green roofs spontaneous vegetation biodiversity colonization nature-based solutions |
| title | Low-maintenance subtropical green roofs. Spontaneous vegetation and substrate deph |
| title_full | Low-maintenance subtropical green roofs. Spontaneous vegetation and substrate deph |
| title_fullStr | Low-maintenance subtropical green roofs. Spontaneous vegetation and substrate deph |
| title_full_unstemmed | Low-maintenance subtropical green roofs. Spontaneous vegetation and substrate deph |
| title_short | Low-maintenance subtropical green roofs. Spontaneous vegetation and substrate deph |
| title_sort | low maintenance subtropical green roofs spontaneous vegetation and substrate deph |
| topic | green roofs spontaneous vegetation biodiversity colonization nature-based solutions |
| url | http://www.agathon.it/agathon/article/view/309 |
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