Urban Forests, Plant Systematics and Germplasm Innovation
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Urban and Rural Development".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (8 October 2024) | Viewed by 2557
Special Issue Editors
Interests: urban forests; plant systematics; germplasm innovation
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Interests: multi-mountainous urban ecosystem; urban remnant mountains(URMs); ecosystem service
Interests: urbanization; remote sensing; carbon neutrality
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
With the acceleration of urbanization, a large amount of natural land surface has been transformed into artificial land surfaces. The urban landscape presents a state of fragmentation, and all kinds of biological habitats gradually disappear. As an important part of the urban ecosystem, plants play an irreplaceable role in coordinating the human–nature relationship. However, studies on the response of plant community biodiversity, functional traits, and ecosystem services to urbanization are still relatively weak. Sustainability plans to organize a Special Issue to improve people’s understanding of the impact of urbanization on plant diversity from both theoretical and practical perspectives, so as to provide useful references for the development and application of plant ecology and landscape ecology and promote sustainable and high-quality development in urban regions. This Special Issue welcomes submissions including, but not limited to, the following topics:
(1) Spatial-temporal variations and its behind mechanism for Urban greenspace and biodiversity;
(2) Plant phylogenomics and biogeography, as well as taxonomic revision;
(3) Germplasm innovation and excellent genes mining for tropical crops.
Prof. Dr. Huafeng Wang
Prof. Dr. Zhitai Wang
Dr. Liqun Sun
Prof. Dr. Yuejun He
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- urban forests
- plant systematics
- germplasm innovation
- urban greenspace
- plant ecology
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