Regulating Ecosystem Services of forests in ten Italian Metropolitan Cities: Air quality improvement by PM10 and O3 removal |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Environmental Biology, Sapienza University of Rome, Piazzale Aldo Moro, 5, 00185 Rome, Italy;2. ENEA – Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development – Atmospheric Pollution Laboratory, Via Martiri di Monte Sole 4, Bologna, Italy;3. Dipartimento di Bioscienze e Territorio (DiBT), University of Molise, 86090 Pesche, Isernia, Italy;4. Università degli Studi di Firenze, Department of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Systems, Via San Bonaventura, 13, 50145, Firenze, Italy;5. ISPRA Italian National Institute for Environmental Protection and Research, Via Vitaliano Brancati, 48, 00144 Rome, Italy;1. IBAF-CNR, Institute of Agro-Environmental and Forests Biology, National Research Council, Via Marconi 2, 05010 Porano TR, Italy;2. Bioforsk West Særheim, Norwegian Institute for Agriculture and Environmental Research, Postvegen 213, 4353 Klepp, Norway;3. WULS – SGGW, Laboratory of Basic Research in Horticulture, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Nowoursynowska 159, 02-776 Warsaw, Poland;4. UniMol, DiBT, Molise University, Department of Biosciences and Territory, Contrada Fonte Lappone 8, 86090 Pesche IS, Italy;5. Czechglobe, Global Change Research Centre, Academy of Sciences of The Czech Republic, v. v. i., Bělidla 986/4a, 603 00 Brno, Czech Republic;1. Council for Agricultural Research and Economics, Research Centre for the Soil-Plant System, Rome, Italy;2. Sapienza University of Rome, Department of Environmental Biology, Rome, Italy;1. Department of Environmental Science and Ecological Engineering, Korea University, Seoul 02855, Republic of Korea;2. Korea Environment Institute, Sejong 30147, Republic of Korea;3. Department of Forest Management, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon 24341, Republic of Korea;1. Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Edifici Z, Carrer de les Columnes, Campus de la UAB, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain;2. Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Department of Computational Landscape Ecology, Permoser Straße 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany;3. Humboldt University of Berlin, Department of Geography, Lab for Landscape Ecology, Rudower Chaussee 16, 12489 Berlin, Germany;4. Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA), Gaustadalléen 21, 0349 Oslo, Norway;5. Dutch Research Institute for Transitions (DRIFT), Erasmus University Rotterdam, Burgemeester Oudlaan 50, 3062PA Rotterdam, The Netherlands;1. USDA Forest Service, 5 Moon Library, SUNY-ESF, Syracuse, NY 13210, USA;2. The Davey Institute, 5 Moon Library, SUNY-ESF, Syracuse, NY 13210, USA;1. Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability Science, College of Marine and Environmental Sciences, James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland 4870, Australia;2. Institute of Forestry and Environmental Sciences, University of Chittagong, Chittagong 4331, Bangladesh;3. CSIRO Land and Water Flagship, PO Box 12139, Earlville BC, Queensland 4870, Australia |
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| Abstract: | Urban and periurban forests, which are integrated within the concept of Green Infrastructure, provide important Ecosystem Services, including air purification. In this study, we quantified the Ecosystem Service of particulate matter (PM10) and Ozone (O3) removal from urban and periurban forests in ten metropolitan cities in Italy, and its total monetary value. In order to gain a better understanding of how Ecosystem Services can be regulated on a wider scale, the vegetation ecosystem types were grouped into Physiognomic-Structural Categories of Vegetation according to morphofunctional criteria. The pollution removal was mapped using a remote sensing and GIS approach, by applying a deposition model and a stomatal flux model. We estimated, for the ten metropolitan cities, an overall pollution abatement of 7150 Mg of PM10 and 30,014 Mg of O3 in the year 2003, which was an extremely hot year. Our findings indicate that structural characteristics (i.e. Leaf Area Index) and functional diversity, linked to stomatal conductance, exert a marked influence on the provision of the regulating Ecosystem Services, whose total monetary value was estimated to be equal to 47 and 297 million USD for PM10 and O3 removal, respectively. This study represent the first national-scale assessment of the Ecosystem Services of air pollution removal in Europe, thus providing information that may be useful to stakeholders to manage Green Infrastructure more efficiently. |
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| Keywords: | Ecosystem Services Green Infrastructures Monetary valuation Urban forests Air pollution removal |
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