Open AccessAn Investigation on the Impact of Different Vegetation Types on Microenvironment in Winter
Author(s) -
Xiaojing Yang,
Yu Liu,
Shangkai Hao
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
iop conference series. materials science and engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1757-899X
pISSN - 1757-8981
DOI - 10.1088/1757-899x/960/4/042060
Subject(s) - lawn , greening , vegetation (pathology) , shrub , environmental science , humidity , bamboo , ecology , hydrology (agriculture) , physical geography , geography , biology , meteorology , engineering , medicine , geotechnical engineering , pathology
The carefully designed greening system can significantly improve the thermal comfort of a microenvironment. A greening system is usually composed of different vegetation types, which have different impacts on their surrounding microenvironment. In order to evaluate the impacts of different vegetation types on campus microenvironment, four representative plots with different vegetation types (arbor + lawn, shrub + lawn, lawn, bamboo forest + lawn) in a university campus in northwest China were selected for investigation. HOBO temperature and humidity recorder were used to monitor the temperature and humidity of four plots at a level of 1.5m high in for 24 consecutive hours in 5 days in winter of 2019. The results show that, during the observation period, all the four kinds of vegetation types have a certain influence on the microenvironment, and the degree of influence shows a trend of bamboo forest + lawn> arbor + lawn> shrub + lawn> lawn. The results of this research are expected to provide a reference in the selection of vegetation types for the design of campus greening system.