Influência de variáveis meteorológicas sobre a fenologia de espécies arbóreas em áreas urbanas

• Ano de defesa: 2013
• Autor(a) principal: Eigenheer, Milene Amâncio Alves [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
• Palavras-chave em Português: Plant ecology; Ecologia vegetal; Fenologia; Mudanças climaticas; Ilha de calor urbana; Climatologia urbana
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/108713

Urban heat island is the name of the phenomenon describing that certain areas of a city become warmer than the surroundings due to physical changes on the urban environment. The study of urban phenology is an excellent indicator of the effects of urban heat islands and allow to access the potential impacts of climate change on plants. However, studies on urban phenology related to heat island effects are rare for tropical cities. The present thesis aims to study the occurrence of urban heat islands affecting the phenology of tropical trees in urban tropical environments seeking to explain: (i) what is the effect of urban heat islands on the phenology of three tree species in a tropical city comparing to a temperate city, (ii) develop and test a new methodology for analyzing the tropical urban landscape and (iii) verify if the study region has undergone changes in the time series of temperature and humidity, and understand if this change is related to a global or local factors. In chapter 1 we verified that Tipuana tipu is an excellent indicator of climate alterations in tropical urban areas, but phenology changes are stronger in temperate cities. In Chapter 2 we propose a new methodology for the study of urban climate and phenology, which take into account various aspects of the landscape of cities. In chapter 3 we observe that the region of the study area presented several changes in urban climate in a regional aspect, not related to global climate changes but the local history of urbanization