The aim of this study is to select appropriate criteria such as ecology, economy, social and aesthetic for plantation in Isfahan city, Iran. In order to do this research, 19 questionnaires were distributed among the experts at the study area in 2013. Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) technique as a multi-criteria decision making was used for evaluation of urban forestry at this research. Exper...

Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada N1G 2W1, Environmental Decisions Group, University of Queensland, Brisbane, 4072, Australia, Queensland University of Technology, School of Earth, Environmental and Biological Sciences, Brisbane Qld, 4001 Australia, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, 1987 Upper Buford Circle, St Pau...

Zhejiang Province, China is experiencing rapid urbanization, facing the challenge of coupling socioeconomic development and ecological conservation. This paper establishes a comprehensive index system to assess coordinating development of economic, construction land use (CLU), and ecology subsystems. A Granger test and a coupling coordination model were applied to explore the causal relationshi...

The root economics spectrum: divergence of absorptive root strategies with root diameter D. Kong, J. Wang, P. Kardol, H. Wu, H. Zeng, X. Deng, and Y. Deng Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mengla, Yunnan, China College of Biosciences and Biotechnology, Shenyang Agricultural University, Shenyang, China Belle W. Baruch Institute of Coastal Ecology & Forest Scie...