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No abstract available ; Il volume raccoglie gli atti del workshop sull'impiego delle piante spontanee nel florovivasimo che si ? tenuto il 18 maggio 2007 presso la Facolt? di Agraria dell'Universit? di Pisa. Il workshop ? stato organizzato nell'ambito del progetto: "Recupero e valorizzazione del patrimonio autoctono e naturalizzato: aspetti produttivi, varietali ed economici legati alla diversificazione e all'introduzione di innovazione di prodotto in floricoltura" (ReVFlor) coordinato dal Prof. A. Garibaldi (Agroinnova, Universit? di Torino), promosso e finanziato dal Ministero per le Politiche agricole e forestali secondo il bando emanato dalla Regione Liguria anche in nome e per conto delle Regioni facenti parte del comitato di progetto.

Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Contributors -- About the Editors -- Chapter 1: Urban Services to Ecosystems: An Introduction -- 1.1 Green Infrastructure, Urban Ecology and Vegetation Science -- 1.2 Planning and Implementation of Green Infrastructure -- 1.3 Nature-Based Solutions and Innovative Design Approaches -- 1.4 Concluding Remarks -- References -- Part I: Green Infrastructure, Urban Ecology and Vegetation Science -- Chapter 2: Improving Extensive Green Roofs for Endangered Ground-Nesting Birds -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.1.1 Extensive Green Roofs: An Unexpected Space for Wildlife -- 2.1.2 The Role of Vegetation Patterns on Green Roofs -- 2.1.3 The Northern Lapwing: An Emblematic Endangered Ground-Nesting Bird -- 2.1.4 Aims of the Research -- 2.2 Material and Methods -- 2.2.1 Roof Shaping and Environmental Improvements -- 2.2.2 Vegetation Surveys -- 2.2.3 Arthropod Monitoring -- 2.2.4 Bird Monitoring -- 2.3 Results and Discussion -- 2.3.1 Effects of Roof Enhancements and Plant Species Transfer on Vegetation and Invertebrates -- 2.3.2 Trends of the Northern Lapwing Reproductive Performance on Green Roofs -- 2.4 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 3: A Plant Sociological Procedure for the Ecological Design and Enhancement of Urban Green Infrastructure -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Materials and Methods -- 3.2.1 Study Case -- 3.2.2 Vegetation Survey, Preliminary Ecological Assessment and Shadow Analysis -- 3.2.3 Automatic Plant Species Selection -- 3.2.4 Further Screening and Expert-Based Assessment -- 3.2.5 Habitat Connectivity and Microclimatic Design (Where to Sow/Plant What?) -- 3.3 Results -- 3.3.1 Vegetation Survey and Ecological Assessment of the Green Roof -- 3.3.2 Expert-Based Plant Species Selection and Assemblage -- 3.3.3 Habitat Connectivity -- 3.3.4 Microclimatic Planting (Where to Sow/Plant What?) -- 3.4 Discussion.

The aim of this book is to bring together multidisciplinary research in the field of green infrastructure design, construction and ecology. The main core of the volume is constituted by contributions dealing with green infrastructure, vegetation science, nature-based solutions and sustainable urban development. The green infrastructure and its ecosystem services, indeed, are gaining space in both political agendas and academic research. However, the attention is focused on the services that nature is giving for free to and for human health and survival. What if we start to see things from another perspective? Our actions shall converge for instance to turn man-made environment like cities from heterotrophic to autotrophic ecosystems. From landscape ecology to urban and building design, like bricks of a wall, from the small scale to the bigger landscape scale via ecological networks and corridors, we should start answering these questions: what are the services that are we offering to Nature? What are we improving? How to implement our actions? This book contains four Open Access chapters, which are licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).