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A Comparison of the Shading Effectiveness of Five Different Street Tree Species in Manchester, UK

David Armson, Mohammad Asrafur Rahman and Anthony Roland Ennos
Arboriculture & Urban Forestry (AUF) July 2013, 39 (4) 157-164; DOI: https://doi.org/10.48044/jauf.2013.021
David Armson
David Armson, Ph.D. (corresponding author), Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PT, UK,
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Mohammad Asrafur Rahman
Mohammad Asrafur Rahman, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PT, UK.,
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Anthony Roland Ennos
Anthony Roland Ennos, Ph.D., Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PT, UK.,
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