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Green roof research is a multidisciplinary and new research area.
However, there has been a sharp increase in the number of countries that conduct green roof research.
But even after 10 years of roof research and $100 million, the United States Tennis Association would prefer that future matches be played in immaculate weather.
We conducted a review of green roof research to investigate what is known about the application of plants on green roofs across North America and their ecological implications.
Our work provides a suite of indicators that can be combined to give a useful picture of the development of green roof research and identifies the challenges which lie ahead for this novel research area.
To date, there is no common ground for reporting of green roof research, and we make recommendations for facilitating such efforts for improved research, policy development and their management across North America's diverse ecological regions.
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Relative to conventional roofs, research showed that green roofs help delay and slow stormwater runoff during light and moderate rain events, with success directly related to soil moisture content before the rain event.
In Germany (where green-roof research has the longest history), extensive green roofs are used as an economic alternative to other options.
It brings together, under one roof, basic research into cancer at the cellular level, clinical research, and epidemiology — for studying the cause and prevention of cancer at the population level.
If actual green roofs are studied, they are rarely older than 10 years and the timeframe for most green roof successional research is relatively short [e.g., Bates et al., 2013; Rowe et al., 2012.
In a recent review of North American green roof vegetation research, 40 succulent species and 94 herbaceous species were identified on green roofs across 15 ecoregions (Dvorak and Volder 2010).
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