Urban forest has a significant impact on the conditions and quality of urban area residents’ life (Novak, Crane, 2008). Benefits from urban vegetation, known in the literature as ecosystem services, are now possible to examine and measure thanks to tools such as I-Tree Eco. Studies on the impact of vast urban green areas on climatic conditions and air quality in the city are becoming more and more popular. The results of these studies indicate that green areas act as a kind of filter catching pollutants and can affect the climate not only around their crowns but also at longer distances ranging from 100 to 500 m from their location (McPerson, Rowntree, 1993). The article presents the results of pilot studies based on the i-Tree Eco method applied for ecosystem services provided by the Park Praski in Warsaw.
The article presents the results of research on the Warsaw Praga Park vegetation based on the i-Tree Eco model. Field work was carried out on 88 test surfaces, 400 m² each, located at 50 meter regular intervals within the park area. The article describes the vegetation structure, with emphasis on trees and shrubs. As regards the trees, number of species, crown coverage, thickness structure, health condition, leaf surface, leaf biomass and the origin of species were estimated. The results of field work concerning the vegetation structures in the Praga Park point out the scale of obtained ecosystem services, which may be expressed in natural units. The issue of ecosystem services is the subject of a separate article from this series.
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