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res:
  bibo_abstract:
  - Increasing urban green spaces and canopy cover requires careful planning of irrigation
    strategies, especially in arid and semiarid areas. This study investigates how
    vegetation cover and irrigation affect the water balance and vegetation productivity
    of a small urban reserve in the Melbourne metropolitan area, Australia. Using
    a mechanistic ecohydrological model, a series of numerical experiments were carried
    out for the period 1999–2018, which included a prolonged drought. Results indicated
    that irrigation played an essential role in helping both trees and grass productivity
    by increasing soil moisture and vegetation water access during the drought. With
    10% tree cover, grass benefitted more than trees by increasing irrigation, and
    trees coped well with drought even without additional water. However, trees strongly
    relied on irrigation to maintain productivity when tree cover increased, highlighting
    the need for a sustainable balance between increasing urban greening and water
    conservation. Differences in soil properties and rooting strategies were also
    found to strongly modify the need for irrigation and the competition for water.
    These results provide quantitative insights on how increasing tree cover and vegetation
    diversity may impact irrigation requirements, highlighting the key role of mechanistic
    numerical models to support urban planners in the evaluation and design of urban
    green spaces.@eng
  bibo_authorlist:
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: V.
      foaf_name: Marchionni, V.
      foaf_surname: Marchionni
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Simone
      foaf_name: Fatichi, Simone
      foaf_surname: Fatichi
      foaf_workInfoHomepage: http://www.librecat.org/personId=cf8e546b-a9b0-11f0-a43b-aa89ed1b56d6
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: N.
      foaf_name: Tapper, N.
      foaf_surname: Tapper
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: J.P.
      foaf_name: Walker, J.P.
      foaf_surname: Walker
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: G.
      foaf_name: Manoli, G.
      foaf_surname: Manoli
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: E.
      foaf_name: Daly, E.
      foaf_surname: Daly
  bibo_doi: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2021.104198
  bibo_volume: 215
  dct_date: 2021^xs_gYear
  dct_isPartOf:
  - http://id.crossref.org/issn/0169-2046
  - http://id.crossref.org/issn/1872-6062
  dct_language: eng
  dct_publisher: Elsevier@
  dct_subject:
  - Urban green spaces
  - Remnant vegetation
  - Irrigation
  - Stormwater harvesting
  - Ecohydrological modeling
  dct_title: Assessing vegetation response to irrigation strategies and soil properties
    in an urban reserve in southeast Australia@
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