Ecosystem services of the urban forest

Urban trees provide diverse ecosystem services to improve climatic and hydrological conditions as well as contribute to climate change adaptation in cities, for example through cooling, shading, carbon storage and biodiversity conservation. In this project, the complete stock of trees in the urban area of Munich will be identified based on aerial and satellite data with very-high spatial resolution, and their structure, dimensions, and environmental parameters will be recorded. Subsequently, the growth as well as the ecosystem services of urban trees will be modeled using the process-based model "CityTree". The central result of the project is the area-wide estimation of the growth and the ecosystem services of urban trees as well as their evaluation with regard to future climate change-induced changes of the urban forest.