Urban trees are exposed to a range of challenges, including higher temperatures and pollution and carbon dioxide levels--all of which are expected to increase globally in coming decades.
Consequently, urban trees are living in the future; they are experiencing conditions now that non-urban trees will have to endure in the future.
This makes cities powerful laboratories for studying physiology and ecology, and understanding how natural forests may be impacted by future climate and atmospheric conditions.
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