Urban Forestry & Urban Greening

Papers
(The median citation count of Urban Forestry & Urban Greening is 6. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Book Review224
Characteristics and influencing factors of taxonomic and functional diversity of butterflies in urban green spaces188
Editorial Board147
Forest type and stand structure influence soil microbial network composition and stability in urban forests: Insights from Beijing, China123
Rediscovering circularity in productive urban landscapes122
Greening streets, gaining insights: Unpacking resident perceptions of urban greening118
The impact of crime on urban park visitation patterns: A longitudinal analysis in Austin, Texas115
Coarse-to-fine segmentation of individual street trees from side-view point clouds94
Changes in decomposition rates and nutrients of leaf litter and fine roots in urban tree species under ozone pollution91
Crafting a walkable and ridable urban green space system: Human-centered park network planning supported by active leisure travel trajectories91
UAV leaf-on, leaf-off and ALS-aided tree height: A case study on the trees in the vicinity of roads85
Renaturing cities: from utopias to contested realities and futures85
Eight recommendations to improve the reporting of qualitative social research in urban nature studies85
Visible greenery as my resource? The connection between passive green space exposure and relative deprivation from a self-determination perspective85
Bridging the land use gap: Examining tree canopy cover and connectivity by land use in 10 U.S. cities83
Sniff the urban park: Unveiling odor features and landscape effect on smellscape in Guangzhou, China82
Associations between implementation outcomes of urban park system planning and surrounding land use change patterns: Evidence from Quanzhou, China82
Green stormwater infrastructure and perception of the neighborhood social environment in Philadelphia 2010–201881
Remote sensing reveals heterogeneous responses of urban vegetation types to compound heat and drought events in Hamburg, Germany81
Estimating aboveground biomass of tropical urban forests with UAV-borne hyperspectral and LiDAR data79
Does user-generated content increase the valuation of urban green space? Evidence from China78
Climate change-induced heat reduces urban green space use: Insights from mobile phone location big data74
Multi-level barriers and opportunities for urban greening and depaving initiatives as climate change adaptation measures: Quebec City case study74
A generative optimization framework for pocket parks supported by mature plant carbon sequestration data71
Urban green space preferences for various health-related psychological benefits of adolescent pupils, university students and adults68
Assessing ecological interactions in urban areas using citizen science data: Insights from hummingbird–plant meta-networks in a tropical megacity68
Machine learning-based prediction of tree crown development in competitive urban environments67
An approach to prioritize urban tree planting to mitigate heat and advance equity in New Haven66
Soil water stress at young urban street-tree sites in response to meteorology and site parameters65
Parks Please! Implementing the 3–30-300 green space rule in developing countries − The case of Surakarta, Indonesia64
The role of urban parks in affecting health outcomes and the differences between vulnerable groups: Evidence from the central city of Beijing62
The influence of greening management and landscape patterns on plant diversity in urban green spaces in Danzhou, China62
Does intensive cutting regime maintain lowland dry heathlands habitat? The case study of Milano Malpensa airport (Northern Italy)60
Diversity and structure in California’s urban forest: What over six million data points tell us about one of the world's largest urban forests59
Quasi-individual-level analysis of urban green space accessibility: Disparities, determinants, and equity across neighborhoods59
Assessing tree canopy cooling efficiency in different local climate zones: A cost-benefit analysis59
Vegetation complexity and greenspace diversity in urban schools58
The synergistic mechanism of urban green space on physical activity density and emotional experience: Evidence from the Pearl River Delta57
Dependence of urban park visits on thermal environment and air quality57
A systematic review of the relationship between urban forest quality and socioeconomic status or race57
Urbanization weakens mutualisms without affecting antagonisms of a hawkmoth-pollinated plant species56
Small but powerful? The seasonal and diurnal cooling potential of urban green spaces in Munich, Germany, is moderated by size and vegetation complexity56
Turning a new leaf: Social and land use drivers of urban tree canopy change in the Chicago Metropolitan Area 2010–201756
Spatial pattern of urban forest diversity and its potential drivers in a snow climate city, Northeast China55
The relationship between urban green space and social health of individuals: A scoping review55
A three-layer evapotranspiration model considering the vertical structure of urban green spaces54
Climate change threatens carbon storage in Europe’s urban trees53
City walk or nature walk? Evidence-based psychological and physiological outcomes – A systematic review and meta-analysis53
Branching Out: The under examined role of urban tree giveaway programs and urban greening in Florida53
Urban greenery distribution and its link to social vulnerability52
Review on the multi-scale interactions of urban forests and atmospheric particles: Affecting factors are scale-dependent among tree, stand and region52
Non-native plants and illegitimate interactions are highly relevant for supporting hummingbird pollinators in the urban environment51
Editorial Board51
Editorial Board51
Greenbelt's impact on urban forest habitat: Insights from morphological analysis in quantifying conservation effects50
Unequal paths to nature: Mobile-phone insights into park visits in nine major cities in the United States50
Forest growth dynamics can be revealed using dual-temporal Terrestrial Laser Scanning — A case from plantation forests in northeastern China50
Seasonal variation in chlorophyll fluorescence of mosses under urban heat islands in Japanese gardens49
Spatiotemporal patterns and driving mechanisms of net primary productivity along urban-rural gradient in Xi’an, China49
Drone-based assessment of urban green space structure and cooling capacity49
Temporal-spatial collaboration and divergence of visitation and satisfaction: A novel approach to urban park use efficiency49
Habitat-dependent multisensory mediation links plant diversity and perceived environmental quality across urban wetland habitats49
Planting methods shape interspecific competition and biodiversity in urban herbaceous communities49
Urban soil respiration patterns: An analysis of Quercus robur vs. Quercus rubra in parks and streets of Karlsruhe, Germany48
Bacterial communities are poorer at urban park entrances in Finland than Russian Tatarstan – Testing the core presumption of the biodiversity hypothesis47
Unravelling leaf hydraulic responses to urbanization and the coordination with economic strategies of subtropical urban forests47
Strategic greening: A multidimensional framework for balancing supply, demand, and cost in urban park allocation46
Exploring climate-adaptive green-space designs for hot and humid climates: Lessons from Japanese dry gardens46
How good is your basket of parks? A combined index of park quality and accessibility for youth46
The nose cooperates with the eyes: The independent and interactive effects of vision and olfaction on the perceived restorativeness of a Metasequoia walkway46
Mapping life-cycle participation priorities in green infrastructure: An expert-driven AHP approach to Sponge city46
Toward scalable urban tree cover mapping: Evaluating the accuracy of the Meta-WRI 1 m global forest layer in a globally diverse set of cities46
Spatially analysed expansion of individual street tree crowns enables species-specific crown expansion predictions in different rainfall zones46
The influence of neighborhood competition on the morphological traits of urban individual tree landscape in Beijing45
Relationship between visitor characteristics, physical activity levels and park environment in subtropical areas’ urban parks45
Integrating landscape ecology in urban green infrastructure planning: A multi-scale approach for sustainable development44
Potential of hyperspectral LiDAR in individual tree segmentation: A comparative study with multispectral LiDAR44
Advancing urban forest and ecosystem service assessment through the integration of remote sensing and i-Tree Eco: A systematic review43
Mapping the urban landscape at multiple ecological scales42
Remote sensing of urban greenspace exposure and equality: Scaling effects from greenspace and population mapping41
The importance of university campuses for the avian diversity of cities40
Establishing a "dynamic two-step floating catchment area method" to assess the accessibility of urban green space in Shenyang based on dynamic population data and multiple modes of transportation40
Mental restorative effects of streetscape vegetation: Assessment of various design strategies using virtual environments40
Aligning objective provision and lived experience: A dual-model assessment of urban park equity and efficiency in chengdu’s “Park City” initiative39
Strategic planning to integrate urban agriculture in Palestinian urban development under conditions of political instability39
Exploring the association between campus environment of higher education and student health: A systematic review of findings and measures39
Average height of surrounding buildings and district age are the main predictors of tree failure on the streets of São Paulo/Brazil39
The pathways linking green spaces to reduced climate change anxiety39
Characterizing BVOC emissions of common plant species in northern China using real world measurements: Towards strategic species selection to minimize ozone forming potential of urban greening39
Comparison of machine learning algorithms for green view index (GVI) prediction using NDVI and urban form metrics38
Blue-green infrastructure and biodiversity: Urbanization and forestation have an important influence on bird diversity in water habitats38
Who benefits more from urban green spaces? Differential engagement-to-well-being pathways across social groups in a Global South metropolis38
Enhancing bird conservation in tropical urban parks through land sparing and sharing strategies: Evidence from occupancy data37
Feed two birds with one tree? Multilayer bird-plant networks and the maintenance of biodiversity in urban environments37
Carbon sinks in urban public green spaces under carbon neutrality: A bibliometric analysis and systematic literature review37
Optimizing urban green space patterns to improve spatial equity using location-allocation model: A case study in Wuhan37
Assessing accessibility and environmental equity in the context of sustained aging: Pathways for age-friendly urban park planning37
Landscape and soundscape quality promote stress recovery in nearby urban nature: A multisensory field experiment37
Stakeholder perceptions of the socio-ecological role of nature-based solutions in the Les Glòries Park, Barcelona36
Improving urban tree species classification by deep-learning based fusion of digital aerial images and LiDAR36
Economic value of the hot-day cooling provided by urban green and blue space36
Editorial Board36
Increasing demand for urban community gardening before, during and after the COVID-19 pandemic36
Climate drivers of dieback in Mediterranean urban pine forests36
Impact of blue spaces on the urban microclimate in different climate zones, daytimes and seasons – A systematic review36
Exploration of the functions and potentials of urban forest gardens in Sweden36
Community assembly of mosses, lichens, and succulents across a green roof chronosequence in Malmö Sweden35
First report of the occurrence of Phytophthora honggalleglyana in an urban green space in Poland35
Editorial Board35
Road traffic noise annoyance mitigation by green window view: Optimizing green quantity and quality35
Auditing an urban park deck with 3D geovisualization—A comparison of in-situ and VR walk-along interviews35
Editorial Board35
Editorial Board35
Estimating and projecting the effects of urbanization on the forest habitat quality in a highly urbanized area35
Evaluating the role of community-led urban greenspace programming in advancing belonging, social connection, and health equity: A mixed methods study of Park People's Sparking Change Toronto program35
The allergy consequences of urban greening: A case study on anthropogenic pollen exposure and public health in a temperate mountain city34
Evaluating the risk of accessing green spaces in COVID-19 pandemic: A model for public urban green spaces (PUGS) in London34
Incorporating pruning into the carbon footprint of tree production based on terrestrial laser scanning34
Beyond technical metrics: Key indicators as boundary objects for assessing environmental injustice in green space access and urban heat exposure — A scoping review34
Validity of online street view imagery in urban studies: Evidence from on-site mobile acquisition34
Exploring Floridians' perceptions of pollinator-friendly gardening to identify critical adoption barriers and strategies34
Inequalities in residential nature and nature-based recreation are not universal: A country-level analysis in Austria34
Detecting patches of invasive shrubs using high-density airborne LiDAR data and spectral imagery34
Tree and shrub instance segmentation by boundary-aware ecological structural probability analysis34
Effects of urban green space types and historical Land Use/ Land Cover on soil health: Implications for sustainable management33
Exploring a green space water demand estimation method integrating urban heat island typologies: A case study of the arid and semi-arid region of Northwest China33
Urban parks, value uplift and green gentrification: An application of the spatial hedonic model in the city of Brisbane33
“Unfenced” parks and residents’ visit patterns: A regression discontinuity design in Shanghai33
Planning for cooler cities: A multimodal AI framework for hyperlocal spatio-temporal urban heat stress prediction and mitigation33
Urban green space disparities: Implications of environmental injustice for public health33
From project-based mobilization to fragile stewardship: Governance configurations and sustainability trajectories of urban community gardens33
A new approach to monitor the life cycle of urban street tree canopies33
Beating around the bush: A scoping review of trade-offs for just planning and governance of urban nature-based solutions33
Effects of blue space exposure in urban and natural environments on psychological and physiological responses: A within-subject experiment33
Multiple ecosystem services of informal green spaces: A literature review33
Urban tree canopies drive human heat stress mitigation32
Social licence to eradicate invasive pests of trees in urban landscapes: A review to prepare for the next incursion32
Growth and climate sensitivity of native and non-native urban trees under varying soil conditions in Santiago, Chile32
“A living street and not just green”: Exploring public preferences and concerns regarding nature-based solution implementation in urban streetscapes32
Efficient cooling of cities at global scale using urban green space to mitigate urban heat island effects in different climatic regions32
Using a socially-engaged arts approach to exploring how diverse socio-cultural groups accessed, valued, engaged with and benefited from an urban treescape during the COVID-19 Pandemic32
Greening urban landscapes: A systematic literature review of planting design for resilient and livable cities32
Valuation of urban nature-based solutions in Latin American and European cities32
The boreal soil microbiome of different urban green spaces – Do city residents meet different microbes?32
Urban epiphytes: Bromeliad diversity in a green cover gradient across a Neotropical streetscape31
Modelling the optimal green roof type for carbon capture in an urbanised university campus31
Spatial distribution, determinants, and implementation barriers of green-blue-grey infrastructure-based urban heat island mitigation strategies in Budapest, Hungary31
Urban forest biotope mapping: A new approach for sustainable forest management planning in Mexico City31
Loss of street trees predicted to cause 6000 L/tree increase in leaf-on stormwater runoff for Great Lakes urban sewershed30
Phenological description of Ailanthus altissima (Mill.) Swingle using the BBCH-scale: Groundwork for developing strategies to control invasive species and mitigate potential allergy risks30
Consistent generalization of plant-hummingbird networks despite increasing vegetation cover across a tropical urban landscape30
Anthropogenic factors explain urban plant diversity across three tropical cities in China30
Reevaluating cooling exposure of urban green space via a proposed spatial metric30
Stakeholder entanglements around diversifying schoolyards in Brussels and Barcelona30
Mapping practitioners’ socio-technical perception on blue-green infrastructure for urban climate resilience: Demographic factors, barriers, costs-benefits, and opportunities for implementation29
Optimal coupling model for tree species identification using derivative calculation and texture filtering29
Evaluating the therapeutic qualities of community parks: An elderly-centric perspective29
Land use-based stakeholders mapping for natural heritage preservation – Case study: Hampstead Heath Ponds, London29
Urbanization-induced vegetation phenological changes: Variability across vegetation types and zones in China29
Exploring the spatiotemporal variability of leaf area index and its influence on land surface temperature: A city-scale analysis in Hong Kong29
Measuring tree diameter at breast height in urban green spaces using ForestScanner: Implications for citizen science29
How does recreation involvement in urban parks promote restorative effects?29
Association between urban greenspace, tree canopy cover and intentional deaths: An exploratory geospatial analysis29
Does street canyon morphology shape particulate matter reduction capacity by street trees in real urban environments?28
Choice as the scarcest resource: Urban vegetation, structural trade-offs, and environmental justice in Japan's metropolitan areas28
Engagement in sustainable horticulture is associated with greater perceived health benefits amongst gardeners28
Crown-level, tree-only mapping of urban aboveground carbon stocks in dense city cores using deep learning28
Public attitudes to urban trees in Great Britain in the early 2020s28
Urban green space classification using Object-Based Image Analysis (OBIA) and LiDAR fusion: Accuracy evaluation and landscape metrics assessment28
Citizens’ use of public urban green spaces at the time of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy28
Sustainability in urban agriculture: The role of biochar in enhancing the productive capacity of compost-based growing media for rooftop farming27
Inequities in urban tree care based on socioeconomic status27
Park features that encourage park visitation among older adults: A qualitative study27
Urban vegetation productivity under climate change and increasing urbanization: Insights from both urban-rural comparison and trend analysis for global cities27
How does enclosed private residential green space impact accessibility equity in urban regions? A case study in Shenzhen, China27
Assessing distributional justice around Cultural Ecosystem Services (CES) provided by urban green areas: The case of Bologna27
Two-step carbon storage estimation in urban human settlements using airborne LiDAR and Sentinel-2 data based on machine learning27
Green equity or green gentrification? State-led urban park development in Shanghai, 2000–202027
Evaluating naturalness and functioning of urban green infrastructure27
The value of pocket parks in preserving urban butterfly diversity27
Effects of pavements on diversity and activity of mycorrhizal symbionts associated with urban trees27
Assessing urban greenery by harvesting street view data: A review27
Artificial developed habitats can sustain plant communities similar to remnant ecosystems in the Tokyo megacity26
Significant carbon storage and sequestration by urban greenery in Beijing city during 2010–202026
Explorations on cooling effect of small urban linear park design in low-rise, high-density district: The case of Gyeongui line forest park in Seoul26
“Restorative-Repressive” perception on post-industrial parks based on artificial and natural scenarios: Difference and mediating effect26
Does perceived biophilic design contribute to human well-being in urban green spaces? A study of perceived naturalness, biodiversity, perceived restorativeness, and subjective vitality26
Development of an artificial intelligence model for CFD data augmentation and improvement of thermal environment in urban areas using nature-based solutions26
Arboricultural cut type and pruning severity can alter the arboreal invertebrate community for at least two years26
Editorial Board26
Assessment of green space benefits and burdens for urban health with spatial modeling26
One size does not fit all: The complex relationship between biodiversity and psychological well-being26
Emotional landscapes: Mapping urban park sentiments using natural language processing25
The relationships between an historic neighborhood classification grade and tree canopy and impervious surface in Washington, DC, USA25
Interactive mapping of allergenic urban street trees in Australia25
The effects of tree planting on allergenic pollen production in New York City25
From private yards to public benefits: How human dimensions shape the urban forest in a small city25
Exploring the paradox of densification and greening in China’ s old cities25
Combining the preferences of residents for neighborhood green spaces and conservation of avian diversity: Case study from Beijing25
Effects of designed species diversity on community resilience to weed invasion25
The personality traits of agreeableness: hindrance or aid to restorative forest experiences?24
Estimating aboveground carbon stocks of urban trees by synergizing ICESat-2 LiDAR with GF-2 data24
Quantifying the hydraulic safety of urban trees: Do street environments impose greater strain than parks?24
Beyond public inventories: Remote sensing–based assessment of urban tree ecosystem services24
Toward fully automated urban tree inventory: Integrating mobile lidar and open-source tools24
Towards an Everyday Nature Index for biodiversity in urban streets24
The protection of ash trees against ash dieback by tree injections24
Evaluating leaf water potential at turgor loss to assess drought tolerance in temperate and Mediterranean shrub species for dry urban environments23
Urban environment and green spaces as factors influencing sedentary behaviour in school-aged children23
Impact of residential green spaces on health inequalities in the UK: A systematic review and exploratory meta-analysis23
Towards a greening city: How does regional cooperation promote urban green space in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area?23
Associations between green space, air pollution and birthweight in Sydney Metropolitan Area, Australia23
Spatiotemporal analysis of interactions between building configuration and urban green space on outdoor air temperature during heat waves: IoT sensor-based insights from Seoul, South Korea23
Beyond tree cover: Vertical canopy structure is associated with the cooling impact of pocket parks in Mediterranean cities23
The aesthetic value of natural vegetation remnants, city parks and vacant lots: The role of ecosystem features and observer characteristics23
Urban green spaces and variation in cooling in the humid tropics: The case of Paramaribo23
The effects of urban greenway environment on recreational activities in tropical high-density Singapore: A computer vision approach23
Well-being of park users in a tropical city may be more influenced by their nature connectedness and exposure than bird diversity23
Rethinking the traditional American lawn: Perspectives of U.S. households in a nationwide survey23
The impact and future of edible landscapes on sustainable urban development: A systematic review of the literature23
Recognitional and distributive justice in urban park access: The importance of subjective views22
Stakeholder exposure to and knowledge of tree pests and diseases and their management in urban areas22
Global urban green spaces in the functional urban areas: Spatial pattern, drivers and size hierarchy22
Nature for the people, by the people: Negotiating values, attitudes and behaviours for implementing urban nature-based solutions in social housing22
Investigating ecological emotion differences in urban waterlogged forests: The role of blue-green space exposure22
How does Blue-Green Infrastructure affect the urban thermal environment across various functional zones?22
Sky gardens: The potential of urban balconies as sites for nanoscale nature-based solutions22
Relationships between urbanization, tree morphology, and carbon density: An integration of remote sensing, allometric models, and field survey22
Nitrogen enrichment decrease green roof multifunctionality22
Enhancing the carbon sequestration potential of urban green space: A water–energy–carbon fluxes perspective22
Neighbourhood green space and loneliness in middle-aged and older adults: Evidence from WHO Study on Global Ageing and Adult Health in China22
Urban trees through a functional traits’ lens: Exploring the interplay between tree functional groups and social-ecological factors22
Resistance of urban trees to drought shaped by family and site in a semi-arid city22
Green relief: An exploration into the restorative effects of urban green spaces on eyestrain22
Biogenic volatile organic compound (BVOC) emission profiles from native Atlantic Forest trees: Seasonal variation and atmospheric implications in southeastern Brazil22
Permeable Grass Pavers: Evaluating Turfgrass and Hardscape Media for Stormwater Quality and Traffic Resiliency in the Context of Net-Zero Urban Design22
The uncertain geographic context problem (UGCoP) in measuring people’s exposure to green space using the integrated 3S approach22
Adolescent visit patterns of urban green spaces and socio-demographic variations in a large high-density city21
Flowers as attractions in urban parks: Evidence from social media data21
Creating a thermally comfortable city through urban green infrastructure: An international review of greening policies21
A nation-wide urban trial network of tree and shrub climate resilience21
Modelling the environmental implications of phytoremediation in urban settings: A review of the integration of life cycle assessment and ecosystem services approaches21
Exploring trust and communication between insurers, arborists, and homeowners21
Urban park attributes as predictors for the diversity and composition of spontaneous plants − A case in Beijing, China21
Urban trees and structure loss in the 2025 Eaton and Palisades fires21
Supporting decision-making for nature recovery through urban development – A map of sustainable spatial development tools21
Dynamics of Net Ecosystem Productivity in Beijing, China over the past two decades based on time-series reconstructed Landsat data: Impact of climate, urbanization and afforestation21
Urban heat riskscape and green injustice: A scoping review of health and environmental impacts21
Relevant landscape components in a large urban green space in Oporto (Portugal)21
Perceptions of Detroit vacant lot greening designs related to depressive symptoms and household flooding21
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