DocumentCode
3347421
Title
Notice of Retraction
Microclimate Effects and Ecosystem Services Evaluation of Urban Wetlands in Guangzhou City
Author
Yang Zhang ; Xiao-Fang Peng ; Xun Sun ; Zhang-He Chen
Author_Institution
Key Lab. of Ecology & Environ. Sci. in Guangdong Higher Educ., South China Normal Univ., Guangzhou, China
fYear
2011
fDate
10-12 May 2011
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
7
Abstract
Notice of Retraction
After careful and considered review of the content of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE´s Publication Principles.
We hereby retract the content of this paper. Reasonable effort should be made to remove all past references to this paper.
The presenting author of this paper has the option to appeal this decision by contacting TPII@ieee.org.
The aim of the present study was to test the microclimate effects and evaluate urban wetland ecosystem services in Guangzhou City, based on the supposition that urban wetlands ameliorate urban microclimate and thus enable more comfortable living conditions for a city´s inhabitants. Five urban wetlands in the areas of Guangzhou City were used for microclimate measurement in this study. Daytime air temperature (DAT) increased, while relative humidity (RH) decreased with the distance from the wetland. The daily and seasonal variation of DAT presented a single-peak pattern, and the daily variation of RH was contrary to the variation of DAT. The suburban wetland had a stronger effect on the microclimate than an equivalent wetland in the center of the city. The value of wetland ecosystem services in Guangzhou City at the time of the study was 86.822 billion yuan (6.8 yuan=l USD as of August, 2010), among which the value of microclimate regulation was 2.504 billion yuan. The results indicated that the effects of urban wetlands on microclimate and on human comfort levels varied with the distances from the wetlands and the locations of the wetlands in the city.
After careful and considered review of the content of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE´s Publication Principles.
We hereby retract the content of this paper. Reasonable effort should be made to remove all past references to this paper.
The presenting author of this paper has the option to appeal this decision by contacting TPII@ieee.org.
The aim of the present study was to test the microclimate effects and evaluate urban wetland ecosystem services in Guangzhou City, based on the supposition that urban wetlands ameliorate urban microclimate and thus enable more comfortable living conditions for a city´s inhabitants. Five urban wetlands in the areas of Guangzhou City were used for microclimate measurement in this study. Daytime air temperature (DAT) increased, while relative humidity (RH) decreased with the distance from the wetland. The daily and seasonal variation of DAT presented a single-peak pattern, and the daily variation of RH was contrary to the variation of DAT. The suburban wetland had a stronger effect on the microclimate than an equivalent wetland in the center of the city. The value of wetland ecosystem services in Guangzhou City at the time of the study was 86.822 billion yuan (6.8 yuan=l USD as of August, 2010), among which the value of microclimate regulation was 2.504 billion yuan. The results indicated that the effects of urban wetlands on microclimate and on human comfort levels varied with the distances from the wetlands and the locations of the wetlands in the city.
Keywords
atmospheric humidity; atmospheric temperature; climatology; ecology; lakes; AD 2010 08; China; Guangzhou City; daytime air temperature; ecosystem services evaluation; human comfort index; microclimate effects; microclimate regulation; relative humidity; seasonal variation; suburban wetland; urban wetlands; Cities and towns; Ecosystems; Humans; Indexes; Lakes; Rivers; Water resources;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering, (iCBBE) 2011 5th International Conference on
Conference_Location
Wuhan
ISSN
2151-7614
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-5088-6
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/icbbe.2011.5781638
Filename
5781638
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