Alexander J. Felson
University of Melbourne
27 Papers
84 Citations
Alexander J. Felson is an academic researcher from University of Melbourne. The author has contributed to research in topics: Urban ecosystem & Urban ecology. The author has an hindex of 14, co-authored 26 publications. Previous affiliations of Alexander J. Felson include University of Connecticut & Yale University.
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Papers
Ecological resilience and resilient cities
TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider the role of ecological resilience in urban environments and propose an approach to promote sustainable urban environments by incorporating the ecological understanding of resilience into the discourse, where sustainability is seen as a social, normative goal, which can be promoted using the mechanisms of environmental resilience.
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Designed experiments: new approaches to studying urban ecosystems
TL;DR: Designed experiments represent a novel way for ecologists to help improve urban environments by providing a means with which to work with urban designers in creating attractive, practical, and replicated experimental designs that generate quality ecological data from metropolitan sites.
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Mangrove Rehabilitation and Restoration as Experimental Adaptive Management
TL;DR: In this article, the authors view these challenges as opportunities for innovative approaches to rehabilitation and restoration that engage new and larger constituencies, and they illustrate with examples from mangrove restoration and rehabilitation projects in the Indo-West Pacific and Caribbean regions.
The Benefits and Limits of Urban Tree Planting for Environmental and Human Health
Diane E. Pataki,Marina Alberti,Mary L. Cadenasso,Alexander J. Felson,Mark J. McDonnell,Stephanie Pincetl,Richard V. Pouyat,Heikki Setälä,Thomas H. Whitlow +8 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose that current evidence supports local cooling, stormwater absorption, and health benefits of urban trees for local residents, which can be realized with well-stewarded tree planting and localized design interventions at site to municipal scales.
FORUM: Challenges and future directions in urban afforestation
TL;DR: In this article, the authors review urban forestry research that deals specifically with the growth, survival and recruitment of new native urban forests and use these data to identify knowledge gaps and propose research needed to create and maintain native urban forest.
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