Using soil microbial inoculations to enhance substrate performance on extensive green roofs
- Submitting institution
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University of East London
- Unit of assessment
- 13 - Architecture, Built Environment and Planning
- Output identifier
- 17
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.12.031
- Title of journal
- Science of The Total Environment
- Article number
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- First page
- 846-856
- Volume
- 580
- Issue
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- ISSN
- 0048-9697
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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3
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- Originality: This globally novel research focuses on the role that augmenting microbial communities had on plants in various green roof substrates. It is one of the first papers globally to link microbial communities of green roofs with associated plant health and diversity. Rigour: The study used multiple replicated plots and a range of standard and novel assay methods. Significance: The work makes recommendations to those involved in the development of urban green infrastructure for both biological and mechanical engineering of green roofs to maximise climate-change mitigation in a real-world situation.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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