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Regulating Ecosystem Services of forests in ten Italian Metropolitan Cities: Air quality improvement by PM10 and O3 removal

TitoloRegulating Ecosystem Services of forests in ten Italian Metropolitan Cities: Air quality improvement by PM10 and O3 removal
Tipo di pubblicazioneArticolo su Rivista peer-reviewed
Anno di Pubblicazione2016
AutoriManes, F., Marando F., Capotorti G., Blasi C., Salvatori Elisabetta, Fusaro L., Ciancarella Luisella, Mircea Mihaela, Marchetti M., Chirici G., and Munafò M.
RivistaEcological Indicators
Volume67
Paginazione425-440
ISSN1470160X
Parole chiaveAir cleaners, Air pollution, Air purification, Air quality, Ecology, Ecosystem services, Ecosystems, forestry, green infrastructure, Monetary valuations, Pollution, Pollution removal, Remote sensing, Urban forests, Vegetation
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. © 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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URLhttps://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84961841547&doi=10.1016%2fj.ecolind.2016.03.009&partnerID=40&md5=06f30fbfc1f70312099a8362d5b2a269
DOI10.1016/j.ecolind.2016.03.009
Citation KeyManes2016425