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APPENDIX A: OUTPUT FROM THE BREAKOUT GROUP DISCUSSION
Pages 45-52

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...  Better quantifying the ecosystem services of individual trees and/or groups of trees would be useful for calculating the monetary value of benefits and for advocating for tree protection. Environmental economics evaluations of urban forest ecosystem services  How much are people willing to pay for biodiversity in urban parks?
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... Effective management and maintenance of urban trees  With 50-60 percent tree mortality in urban ecosystems, there is a need to educate tree planters because many trees are being improperly planted.  Research how tree care and maintenance affect the risk of storm damage or tree failure and the flow of ecosystem service trees provide.
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...  How to connect ecosystem services to pollution standards and regulations and national regulatory offsets?  How do we develop and institute regulations that will support green infrastructure and urban trees?
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...  Develop better urban climate models to study greening scenarios.  Standardize urban tree canopy assessments so all ecosystem services data can use the urban tree canopy data.
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... o How trees affect air pollution (including chemistry, meteorology, mixing) o Effect of mortality rates for urban trees on ecosystem services models for urban forests.
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...  Develop modeling programs and protocols that integrate urban trees into stormwater regulatory analysis.  Design appropriate policies that manage costs and benefits of urban ecosystem services that are borne by different parties.
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...  Set attainable urban tree canopy goals with a better understanding of urban tree mortality. Other needs  Conduct a predictable available tree canopy assessment and accessible tree planting tracking methods.
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  • ecosystem service
  • multiple benefits
  • private landowners
  • water quality
  • urban ecosystem

  • urban site
  • urban ecosystems
  • integrate urban
  • tree growth
  • regulatory programs

  • services provided
  • modeling programs
  • minimum urban
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  • sustainable urban
  • standardize urban
  • urban setting
  • urban vegetation
  • urban residents


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