Pataki_et_al_2021

Pataki DE, Alberti M, Cadenasso ML, et al (2021) The Benefits and Limits of Urban Tree Planting for Environmental and Human Health. Front Ecol Evol 9:603757. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2021.603757

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Keywords: Urban forestry, climate mitigation, policy

There are benefits to urban trees but the benefits have limitations. Effectiveness of tree planting is dependent on scale. Urban trees are most effective at providing ES that operate at local scales, such as parcels or urban forest/neighbourhood patches. Urban trees are more useful at providing climate adaptation than mitigation. Small green spaces may have large impacts on human health, which is perhaps the more important things since the small amount of greenspace allocated in cities can’t sequester enough carbon storage (for example) to make a difference.