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  1. Department of Forest and Soil Science, Institute of Forest Ecology, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life, Austria

    Monika Sieghardt

  2. Department of Water — Atmosphere — Environment, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Austria

    Erich Mursch-Radlgruber

  3. Institute of Plant Protection, National Council of Research of Italy, Italy

    Elena Paoletti

  4. Natura Ingenium, The Netherlands

    Els Couenberg

  5. Department of Forestry and Natural Environment, University of Thessaloniki, Greece

    Alexandros Dimitrakopoulus

  6. Center of Applied Ecology ‘Professor Baeta Neves’, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal

    Francisco Rego

  7. Department of Forestry and Natural Environment, Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Greece

    Athanassios Hatzistathis

  8. Department of Parks and Urban Landscapes, Danish Centre for Forest, Landscape and Planning, KVL, Denmark

    Thomas Barfoed Randrup

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Sieghardt, M. et al. (2005). The Abiotic Urban Environment: Impact of Urban Growing Conditions on Urban Vegetation. In: Konijnendijk, C., Nilsson, K., Randrup, T., Schipperijn, J. (eds) Urban Forests and Trees. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-27684-X_12

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