Strashok Oleksandra, Bidolakh Dmytro, Ziemiańska Monika
Department of Landscape Architecture, Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Grunwaldzka St. 55, Wroclaw, 50-357, Poland.
Department of Landscape Architecture and Phytodesign, National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine, Heroyiv Oborony St. 15, Kyiv, 03041, Ukraine.
Sci Rep. 2025 Mar 31;15(1):10999. doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-95581-y.
City residents benefit daily of urban green spaces, often unaware of their true value. We transformed biometric indicators of woody plants into ecosystem equivalents for evaluating ecosystem services (ES) by the I-tree eco tool estimate of boulevards with a different ratio of bushes, trees, and urban canopy cover (UCC). The results showed that the studied green spaces annually retain 111.24 metric tonnes of carbon in their biomass, estimated at 17,846 thousand €, and are capable of producing 1928 thousand € by different ES. It includes 4.01 metric tonnes/year of gross carbon sequestration worth €636.15, 76.01 m/year of avoided runoff worth €139.28, and 60.95 metric tonnes/year of pollution removal (ozone, carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide, and particulate matter) worth €1152.16. For objects where shrubs are the primary producers of ES, it is important to model crown development along the horizontal axis. Quantitative and qualitative assessment of different types of woody plants of different ages allows for effective selection of urban plants to create a well-being environment for citizens. The practical value of the results can improve the spatial planning of urban green infrastructure by considering the ES indices of trees and shrubs and expanding opportunities to inform the public about their value.
城市居民每天都能从城市绿地中受益，却常常意识不到其真正价值。我们通过I-tree生态工具，将木本植物的生物特征指标转化为生态系统等效值，用以评估不同灌木、树木比例及城市树冠覆盖率（UCC）的林荫大道的生态系统服务（ES）。结果表明，所研究的绿地每年在其生物量中固存111.24公吨碳，价值估计为1784.6万欧元，并且通过不同的生态系统服务能够产生192.8万欧元的价值。这包括每年4.01公吨的总碳固存，价值636.15欧元；每年76.01米的径流避免量，价值139.28欧元；以及每年60.95公吨的污染物去除量（臭氧、一氧化碳、二氧化氮和颗粒物），价值1152.16欧元。对于生态系统服务主要由灌木产生的区域，沿水平轴模拟树冠发育很重要。对不同年龄的不同类型木本植物进行定量和定性评估，有助于有效选择城市植物，为市民创造宜居环境。研究结果的实际价值在于，通过考虑树木和灌木的生态系统服务指标，改进城市绿色基础设施的空间规划，并扩大向公众宣传其价值的机会。
