[MCN] Urban forest at its best when not limited to trees alone

[Lance Olsen]

 <https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-05/uos-cnt051617.php>Cities need to 'green up' to reduce the impact of air pollution
UNIVERSITY OF SURREY 
 <https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-05/uos-cnt051617.php>Public Release: 16-May-2017 <https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-05/uos-cnt051617.php>
The harmful impact of urban air pollution could be combated by strategically placing low hedges along roads in a built-up environment of cities instead of taller trees, a new study has found.

JOURNAL
Atmospheric Environment
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1352231017303151 <http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1352231017303151>
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"All organisms live within a limited range of body temperatures."

Hans O. Pörtner and Anthony P. Farrell. Physiology and Climate Change. 
SCIENCE 31 OCTOBER 2008
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“  … organisms have a physiological response to temperature, and these responses have important consequences."

Anthony I. Dell, Samraat Pawar and Van M. Savage, Temperature dependence of trophic interactions are driven by asymmetry of species responses and foraging strategy.
Journal of Animal Ecology 2013
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“Climate change impacts have now been documented across every ecosystem on Earth, despite an average warming of only ~1°C so far."

Scheffers et al. The broad footprint of climate change from genes to biomes to people. 
Science, 11 NOVEMBER 2016

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