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Book/Book Chapter 
Urban Forests: Biophysical Features and Benefits 
Vogt, J 
2020 
Elsevier 
Oxford 
Encyclopedia of the World's Biomes 
48-57 
Urban forests are all the trees, forests, associated vegetation growing in or very near the cities, towns, and communities where people live, work, and play. What makes urban forests different from forests outside urban areas is their existence in dense areas of human settlement—cities, towns, suburbs, etc. What qualifies as urban from the standpoint of urban forestry includes a range of population sizes or densities (parallel to the Ellis et al. (2010) mapping of anthropogenic biomes, or anthromes, to human population densities): There is no minimum threshold for how many people must live in a community for it to have an urban forest, and the term urban forestry is applied to the management of populations of trees in communities of all sizes. This article discusses the definitions of urban, urban forests, and urban forestry, describes the biophysical characteristics of urban forests and what makes urban forests different from non-urban forests, and details the ecosystem services and disservices provided by urban forests. 
Benefits of trees; Ecosystem disservices; Ecosystem services; Urban ecosystem; Urban forestry; Urban social-ecological system; Urban trees; Vegetation 
DellaSala, Dominick A.