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Mexico City, the former Tenochtitlan and modern day megacity, will likely remain as the cultural, financial, communications, and population center of the country for the foreseeable future. Three intricately connected factors will continue to challenge efforts to improve the quality of life and the health of urban trees and of ecosystems within the Basin of Mexico: continued population growth, changing land use (including further urban expansion into the rural periphery), and atmospheric/environmental degradation. Overexploitation of water reservoirs is a notable example of the last. Researchers, resource managers and government agencies can contribute to the preservation of green areas within the urban zone and the sustainability of the surrounding forested zones by (a) continuing to implement more effective air pollution control measures and policies, (b) protecting wildlands and urban green areas by enforcing land-use zoning regulations, (c) developing strategies and programs to educate and inform the public of all ages and social levels about the important environmental issues affecting them, and (d) selecting and planting resistant species or varieties of plants (which may be the ones surviving under the polluted environment in Mexico City).
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de Bauer, L.I., Hernández-Tejeda, T., Fenn, M.E. (2002). Resources at Risk and Research Needs. In: Fenn, M.E., de Bauer, L.I., Hernández-Tejeda, T. (eds) Urban Air Pollution and Forests. Ecological Studies, vol 156. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-22520-3_16
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