Concordia University
M.Sc. candidate
Supervisor: Carly Ziter
Alain Paquette, Université de Québec à Montréal
Start: 2023-09-01

Project

Assessing urban tree diversity and structure in private spaces
This project aims to understand how private trees, and their associated ecosystem services, change along socioeconomic and urban gradients. To accomplish this, a vast forest inventory of public and private trees was completed across the island of Montréal. Current research on the urban forest has generally been limited to public trees due to data availability and access. However, this means that over 50% of urban trees are excluded from studies, leading to potentially biased results. Therefore, by including private trees in our study we will have a more complete portrait of urban tree biodiversity and the ecosystem services they provide.

Keywords

urban forest, cross-city, tree diversity, ecosystem services