Assessment and representation of Urban Trees Ecosystem Services: a case study in Pryzamkovyi park

Autorzy

  • Dmytro Bidolakh Separated subdivision of National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine “Berezhany Agrotechnical Institute”
    47501 Berezhany, Ukraine
    phone: +380964465558
    e-mail: dimbid@ukr.net
    ORCID ID: 0000-0003-0248-3731
  • Petro Lakyda National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine
    03041 Kyiv, Ukraine
    ORCID ID: 0000-0003-3639-2969
  • Viktor Myroniuk National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine
    03041 Kyiv, Ukraine
    ORCID ID: 00-0002-5961-300X
  • Yuriy Hayda Separated subdivision of National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine “Berezhany Agrotechnical Institute”
    47501 Berezhany, Ukraine
    ORCID ID: 000-0001-6019-9654
  • Svitlana Pidkhovna Separated subdivision of National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine “Berezhany Agrotechnical Institute”
    47501 Berezhany, Ukraine
    ORCID ID: 0000-0001-5741-0498

Abstract

The research was aimed at verification of the possibility and expediency of applying i-Tree Eco tools in order to assess the value of ecosystem trees and bushes by the example of one of the parks in Ukraine and representation of the obtained information on an interactive map. For this purpose, the inventory of 228 urban trees in Pryzamkovyi park was conducted and the possibility of its adjustment to the conditions in Ukraine was assessed. The obtained information was analysed and visualised, and the advantages and disadvantages of this process were determined. The scope of the provided ecosystem services for park spaces was specified and it was determined that urban trees in Pryzamkovyi park have a €12.38 million replacement value and the average indicator of annual usefulness of ecosystem services provided by one tree plant or one bush plant in the park is equal to €15.75 per year, according to i-Tree Eco assessment.
In order to improve the process of obtaining, processing and visualising materials, an orthophotomap based on unmanned aerial vehicle survey materials was applied. It allowed increasing the accuracy and improving the visualisation of the geolocation of trees and bushes. In order to familiarise a greater number of users with this information, electronic maps of vegetation that display the location of trees and bushes and their ecosystem services, both in quantity and monetary terms, were offered. The peculiarity and the scientific novelty of the approaches to solving the assigned task is the improvement of the process of informing the interested parties about the ecosystem services of a specific tree in the park and green plantations in the park as a whole. The suggested approaches to assessing the value of urban trees and their ecosystem services give ground to emphasise the value of these plants for urban ecosystems, to substantiate the expediency of implementing environmental measures as well as the need to increase the funding of these measures as a compensation for the services provided by trees and plants. At the same time, it is worth mentioning the expediency of conducting further research on this subject and the related issues, which requires follow-up studying.

DOI 10.2478/ffp-2023-0011
Source Folia Forestalia Polonica, Series A – Forestry
Print ISSN 0071-6677
Online ISSN
2199-5907
Type of article
original article
Original title
Assessment and representation of Urban Trees Ecosystem Services: a case study in Pryzamkovyi park
Publisher © 2023 Author(s). This is an open access article licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)
Date 01/06/2023

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