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SylvCiT is a decision-support tool for recommending appropriate groups of tree species to plant in a city to improve functional diversity at different scales. This open-source software integrated into a web platform can also be used as a tree explorer or as a tool to analyze the diversity of the urban forest at different scales and find information on ecosystem benefits.
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SylvCiT can be used as a tree explorer to retrieve information about individual trees (A) or about the urban forest within a selected area (B). This example shows an area near the Old Port of Montreal, Canada.
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‘Simulating a plantation’ allows the user to choose species from among those recommended and to see the improvements in richness, diversity, carbon storage (A), and the changes in the distribution of trees per functional group before and after the simulation of a plantation (B).
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Presentation of different urban forest software, applications, and tools. N/A = not applicable.
Type of tool Name of tool Company/institution Country/region Free to use? Publication Planting-recommendation, species-selection, decision-making tools Citree Technische Universität Dresden Central Europe Yes Vogt et al. 2017 i-Tree Species USDA Forest Service, Davey Tree Expert Company, The Arbor Day Foundation, Society of Municipal Arborists, International Society of Arboriculture, Casey Trees, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry Worldwide Yes Nowak et al. 2018 Right Place Right Tree— Boston Boston University Biogeoscience and URBAN graduate programs Boston, USA Yes Werbin et al. 2020 Select Tree Urban Forest Ecosystems Institute, California Polytechnic State University California, USA Yes N/A SESAME Cerema, Ville de Metz et Metz Métropole France Yes Cerema 2019 Tree Advisor USDA National Agroforestry Center Northern and Central Great Plains, USA Yes Bentrup and Dosskey 2022 Tree Planting Predictor™ Tool Edge Impact Worldwide Partially N/A Which Plant Where Macquarie University Australia Yes Ellsworth et al. 2018 Urban ecosystem services assessmenta EcoServR Liverpool John Moores University, Natural Capital Solutions, Forest Research, and the Cheshire Wildlife Trust United Kingdom Yes Busdieker et al. 2020 i-Tree Eco, i-Tree Design, MyTree USDA Forest Service, Davey Tree Expert Company, The Arbor Day Foundation, Society of Municipal Arborists, International Society of Arboriculture, Casey Trees, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry Worldwide Yes Hirabayashi et al. 2022 OpenTreeMap AZAVEA, Inc. North America No N/A Social Values for Ecosystem Services (SolVES) United States Geological Survey Worldwide Yes Sherrouse et al. 2022 Urban InVEST Natural Capital Project Worldwide Yes Hamel et al. 2021 Microclimate simulation models ENVI-met ENVI-met GmbH No Tsoka et al. 2018 Greenpass GREENPASS GmbH Worldwide No Elagiry et al. 2019; Kraus and Scharf 2019 Computational fluid dynamics software e.g. SimScale, OpenFoam Worldwide Yes/No Buccolieri et al. 2018 Tree explorer, canopy explorer, citizen science, visualisation tools Exploring Tree Equity in Boston Speak for the Trees, Boston Boston, USA Yes N/A Falling Fruit Falling Fruit Worldwide Yes N/A Google Earth Engine Apps Tree Canopy Lab (e.g., Los Angeles) USA Yes N/A Healthy Trees, Healthy Cities The Nature Conservancy, USDA Forest Service, and the Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health at the University of Georgia Worldwide Yes Hallett et al. 2019 i-Tree Canopy, i-Tree Landscape, OurTrees USDA Forest Service, Davey Tree Expert Company, The Arbor Day Foundation, Society of Municipal Arborists, International Society of Arboriculture, Casey Trees, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry Worldwide Yes Nowak et al. 2018 New York City Street Tree Map City of New York, New York City Parks New York, USA Yes N/A Many other cities with similar platforms e.g., Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles (USA); Montréal, Québec, Ottawa (Canada) Worldwide Yes N/A MapMyTree European Environment Agency Europe Yes N/A OpenTrees.org Steve Bennett, freelance web developer Worldwide Yes N/A Tree Equity Score Analyser American Forests USA Yes N/A Treepedia MIT Senseable City Lab, World Economic Forum Worldwide Yes Abbati 2019; Cai et al. 2018 TreeKeeper Canopy Davey Tree Expert Company Worldwide No N/A Tree inventory, data collection, mapping, tree management ArborPro ArborPro, Inc. USA No N/A ArborScopeTM Bartlett Tree Experts North America, Europe No N/A ArcGIS Collector Esri Worldwide No N/A TreeKeeper Inventory management software Davey Tree Expert Company North America No N/A TreePlotter PlanIT GEO™ Worldwide No Morar et al. 2019 Urban Forest Metrix Forest Metrix Pro USA No N/A Tree care, software for arboristsb Arborgold Arborgold Worldwide No N/A Arbornote Arbornote Worldwide No N/A SingleOps SingleOps Worldwide No N/A Treezi A Plus Tree, Inc. Worldwide No N/A Name of the tool Company/institution Website Arboclimat and Arbre-en-Ville NEPSEN Transition, Atelier Colin & Poli Paysages (ACPP) http://www.arbre-en-ville.fr/arbre-en-ville Citree Technische Universität Dresden https://citree.de/?language=en i-Tree Species USDA Forest Service, Davey Tree Expert Company, The Arbor Day Foundation, Society of Municipal Arborists, ISA, Casey Trees, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry https://species.itreetools.org Right Place Right Tree–Boston Boston University Biogeoscience and URBAN graduate programs https://zoeywerbin.shinyapps.io/Boston_trees Select Tree Urban Forest Ecosystems Institute, California Polytechnic State University https://selectree.calpoly.edu SESAME Cerema, Ville de Metz and Metz Métropole https://metz.fr/projets/developpement-durable/sesame.php Tree Advisor USDA National Agroforestry Center https://www.fs.usda.gov/nac-plant-guide Tree Planting Predictor™ Tool Edge Environment https://edgeenvironment.com/treeplantingpredictor Which Plant Where Macquarie University https://www.whichplantwhere.com.au EcoServR Liverpool John Moores University, Natural Capital Solutions, Forest Research, and the Cheshire Wildlife Trust https://ecoservr.github.io/EcoservR i-Tree Eco, i-Tree Design, MyTree Same as i-Tree Species https://www.itreetools.org/tools/i-tree-eco; https://design.itreetools.org; https://mytree.itreetools.org OpenTreeMap AZAVEA, INC. https://opentreemap.github.io Social Values for Ecosystem Services (SolVES) USGS http://solves.cr.usgs.gov Urban InVEST Natural Capital Project https://naturalcapitalproject.stanford.edu/software/urban-invest ENVI-met ENVI-met GmbH https://www.envi-met.com Greenpass GREENPASS GmbH https://greenpass.io/software Computational fluid dynamics software e.g. SimScale, OpenFoam https://www.simscale.com/product/cfd; https://www.openfoam.com Exploring Tree Equity in Boston Speak for the Trees, Boston https://bucas.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=34e653bf29e64b72a64e78a175732b34 Falling Fruit Falling Fruit https://fallingfruit.org Google Earth Engine Apps Tree Canopy Lab (e.g., Los Angeles) https://insights.sustainability.google/labs/treecanopy Healthy Trees, Healthy Cities The Nature Conservancy, US Forest Service, and the Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health at the University of Georgia https://healthytreeshealthycitiesapp.org i-Tree canopy, i-Tree Landscape, OurTrees Same as i-Tree Species https://www.itreetools.org/tools/i-tree-eco; https://design.itreetools.org; https://mytree.itreetools.org New York City Street Tree Map City of New York, NYC Parks https://tree-map.nycgovparks.org/tree-map Many other cities with similar platforms e.g., Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles (USA) Montréal, Québec, Ottawa (Canada) https://www.seattle.gov/trees/get-involved/explore-trees-online; https://www.quebio.ca/fr/arbresmtl; https://open.ottawa.ca/datasets/ottawa::tree-inventory/about MapMyTree European Environment Agency https://mapmytree.eea.europa.eu/#/home OpenTrees.org Steve Bennett, freelance web developer https://opentrees.org Tree Equity Score Analyser American Forests https://www.treeequityscore.org Treepedia MIT Senseable City Lab, World Economic Forum https://senseable.mit.edu/treepedia TreeKeeper Canopy Davey Tree Expert Company https://canopy.treekeepersoftware.com/goshenin ArborPro ArborPro, Inc. https://arborprousa.com ArborScope™ Bartlett Tree Experts https://www.bartlett.com/management-software.cfm
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