Green Roof Ecosystems
This book provides an up-to-date coverage of green (vegetated) roof research, design, and management from an ecosystem perspective. It reviews, explains, and poses questions about monitoring, substrate, living components, and the abiotic, biotic, and cult
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Series Editors Martyn M. Caldwell Logan, Utah, USA Sandra Díaz Cordoba, Argentina Gerhard Heldmaier Marburg, Germany Robert B. Jackson Durham, North Carolina, USA Otto L. Lange Würzburg, Germany Delphis F. Levia Newark, Delaware, USA Harold A. Mooney Stanford, California, USA Ernst-Detlef Schulze Jena, Germany Ulrich Sommer Kiel, Germany
Ecological Studies is Springer’s premier book series treating all aspects of ecology. These volumes, either authored or edited collections, appear several times each year. They are intended to analyze and synthesize our understanding of natural and managed ecosystems and their constituent organisms and resources at different scales from the biosphere to communities, populations, individual organisms and molecular interactions. Many volumes constitute case studies illustrating and synthesizing ecological principles for an intended audience of scientists, students, environmental managers and policy experts. Recent volumes address biodiversity, global change, landscape ecology, air pollution, ecosystem analysis, microbial ecology, ecophysiology and molecular ecology. More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/86
Richard K. Sutton Editor
Green Roof Ecosystems
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Editor Richard K. Sutton Department of Agronomy and Horticulture University of Nebraska - Lincoln Lincoln Nebraska USA
ISSN 0070-8356 ISSN 2196-971X (electronic) Ecological Studies ISBN 978-3-319-14982-0 ISBN 978-3-319-14983-7 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-14983-7 Library of Congress Control Number: 2015940751 Springer Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Foreword
Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote: “The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.” Let the knowledge, concepts and theories contained in this book be the acorn that inspire
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