Green Roof Ecosystems

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Sutton, Richard K. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Ecological Studies, Analysis and Synthesis, 223
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Regional planning.; Urban planning.; Landscape architecture.; Ecosystems.; Landscape ecology.; Urban ecology (Biology).; Life Sciences.; Urban Ecology.; Landscape Ecology.; Landscape Architecture.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.

This book provides an up-to-date coverage of green (vegetated) roof research, design, and management from an ecosystem perspective. It reviews, explains, and poses questions about monitoring, substrate, living components, and the abiotic, biotic, and cultural aspects connecting green roofs to the fi...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction to Green Roof Ecosystems
• 2. Monitoring Abiotic Inputs and Outputs
• 3.Climates and Microclimates: Challenges for Extensive
• 4. Green Roof Design for Hot Climates
• 5. Water through Green Roofs
• 6. Nutrient Cycling in Green Roof Ecosystems
• 7. Soil-based Green Roofs
• 8. Bacteria and Fungi in Green Roof Ecosystems
• 9. Plant Biodiversity on Green Roofs
• 10. Effects of Vegetation on Green Roof
• 11. Ecosystem Services
• 12. Ruderal Green Roofs
• 13. Assembling Prairie Biome Plants for Minnesota
• 14. Green Roofs
• 15. Green Roof Plant Assemblage and Dynamics
• 16. Long-term Rooftop Plant Communities
• 17. Invertebrates on Green Roofs
• 18. Placing Green Roofs in Time and Space: Scale, Recruitment, Establishment, and Regeneration
• 19. Eco-regional Green Roof Case Studies
• 20. Green Roof Ecosystems: Summary and Synthesis.