Structure and Ecological Benefits Evaluation of Street Trees in Shenyang Based on i-Tree (STRATUM) Model

Author

Ning, Ma ; Wei, Chen ; Xingyuan, He

Author_Institution

Inst. of Appl. Ecology, Chinese Acad. of Sci., Shenyang, China

fYear

2011

fDate

19-20 Feb. 2011

Firstpage

1295

Lastpage

1298

Abstract

Sampling method was employed to investigate the structure and ecological benefits of street trees in the area within Second Ring Road of Shenyang. The study area covers about 161 km², and 61 main roads. Based on the field data, the i-Tree (STRATUM) model was run to analyze street trees´ structure and ecological benefits. The results showed that there were 19 street tree species in the study area, which were belong to 13 families and 15 genera. The most common tree species are Sophora japonica, Populus alba, and Fraxinus chinensis, the percentage of which reached 68.32% of the total population. The proportion of small trees (d.b.h.

Keywords

ecology; environmental factors; roads; sampling methods; trees (mathematics); vegetation; China; Fraxinus chinensis; Populus alba; STRATUM model; Second Ring Road; Shenyang; Sophora japonica; ecological benefit evaluation; i-Tree model; sampling method; street tree species; street tree structure; Computers; Decision support systems; Distributed control; Monitoring; ecological benefits; i-Tree model; street trees; structure;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Distributed Control and Intelligent Environmental Monitoring (CDCIEM), 2011 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Changsha

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-278-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-4350-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CDCIEM.2011.84

Filename

5748051