Alessandro Ossola

Publications

• Extreme heat increases stomatal conductance and drought‐induced mortality risk in vulnerable plant species
• Toward cross-realm management of coastal urban ecosystems
• Gardening can relieve human stress and boost nature connection during the COVID-19 pandemic
• Plant biodiversity in the face of global change
• Research note
• Climate ready street tree trials
• Lost food narratives can grow human health in cities
• A global horizon scan of the future impacts of robotics and autonomous systems on urban ecosystems
• Our cities need more trees, but some commonly planted ones won’t survive climate change
• Our cities need more trees, but some commonly planted ones won't survive climate change
• Urban trees and people’s yards mitigate extreme heat in western Adelaide
• COVID-19 gardening could herald a greener, healthier future
• A transformative mission for prioritising nature in Australian cities
• Nature divided, scientists united
• Urban change as an untapped opportunity for climate adaptation
• Biostimulant application practices in Australian urban forestry
• Meeting sustainable development goals via robotics and autonomous systems
• Priorities for mainstreaming urban nature-based solutions in Australian cities
• Can we integrate ecological approaches to improve plant selection for green infrastructure?
• Greenness and equity: Complex connections between intra-neighborhood contexts and residential tree planting implementation
• Urban agriculture as a nature-based solution to address socio-ecological challenges in Australian cities
• A simple method for simulating drought effects on plants
• Valuing the role of time in urban ecology
• A global database for metacommunity ecology, integrating species, traits, environment and space
• Assessing the relationship between trait-based and horticultural classifications of plant responses to drought
• The angriest summer on record
• Nature-based solutions for changing urban landscapes
• Experiences of gardening during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic
• Using ecological knowledge for landscaping with plants in cities
• Urban gardens as a space to engender biophilia
• Finding space for nature in cities: the considerable potential of redundant car parking
• Reducing street parking can free up large areas for urban nature
• Urban forest invertebrates: how they shape and respond to the urban environment
• Biochar, but not soil microbial additives, increase the resilience of urban plant species to low water availability
• Butterfly richness and abundance along a gradient of imperviousness and the importance of matrix quality
• Which plant where
• Habitat in flames
• Small vegetated patches greatly reduce urban surface temperature during a summer heatwave in Adelaide, Australia
• Climate differentiates forest structure across a residential macrosystem
• Greening in style: Urban form, architecture and the structure of front and backyard vegetation
• Substantial declines in urban tree habitat predicted under climate change
• Yards increase forest connectivity in urban landscapes
• The Global Urban Tree Inventory: A database of the diverse tree flora that inhabits the world’s cities
• Making nature-based solutions climate-ready for the 50 °C world
• Integrating solutions to adapt cities for climate change
• Where birds felt louder: the garden as a refuge during COVID-19
• Choosing the right nature-based solutions to meet diverse urban challenges
• Spatial contagion structures urban vegetation from parcel to landscape
• Records of urban occurrences expand estimates of the climate niches in tree species
• Associations between violent crime inside and outside, air temperature, urban heat island magnitude and urban green space
• Creating socioecological novelty in urban agroecosystems from the ground up
• Drivers of soil heterogeneity in the urban landscape
• Biomasse da praterie seminaturali come fonte di energia: un fuoco di paglia?
• Valutazione del ruolo dei Parchi lombardi ai fini del sequestro di carbonio
• Urban biodiversity
• Drivers of soil heterogeneity in the urban landscape
• Bringing urban biodiversity research into practice
• World scientists’ warning to humanity
• Biomasse da praterie seminaturali come fonte di energia
• Variation in Vegetation Structure and Composition across Urban Green Space Types
• Aridity indices predict organic matter decomposition and comminution processes at landscape scale
• School Microclimates
• Aridity and decomposition processes in complex landscapes
• Habitat complexity influences fine scale hydrological processes and the incidence of stormwater runoff in managed urban ecosystems
• Evaluation ofthe role of Lombardy Parks (Italy) in carbon sequestration
• Species evenness affects ecosystem processes in situ via diversity in the adaptive strategies of dominant species
• Urban habitat complexity affects species richness but not environmental filtering of morphologically-diverse ants
• Soil carbon and carbon/nitrogen ratio change under tree canopy, tall grass, and turf grass areas of urban green space
• Habitat Complexity Enhances Comminution and Decomposition Processes in Urban Ecosystems
• Contrasting effects of urban habitat complexity on metabolic functional diversity and composition of litter and soil bacterial communities
• Measuring urban tree loss dynamics across residential landscapes
• Situating Green Infrastructure in Context: A Framework for Adaptive Socio‐Hydrology in Cities