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ArticlePlants (Basel, Switzerland)2025

How a Green Roof Becomes Biodiverse: Vegetation Analysis on a Green Roof with no Maintenance in Rome (Italy).

Amii Bellini, Valentina Savo, Giulia Caneva, Elettra D'Amico, Roberto Casalini, Flavia Bartoli

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Article in Plants (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Amii BelliniDepartment of Science, Roma Tre University, Viale Marconi 446, 00146 Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-7368-7849
Valentina SavoDepartment of Education Science, Roma Tre University, Via del Castro Pretorio 20, 00185 Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-4415-2685
Giulia CanevaDepartment of Science, Roma Tre University, Viale Marconi 446, 00146 Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-0551-7100
Elettra D'AmicoDepartment of Science, Roma Tre University, Viale Marconi 446, 00146 Rome, Italy.
Roberto CasaliniLiceo Scientifico Statale Giovanni Keplero, Via Silvestro Gherardi, 87, 00146 Rome, Italy.
Flavia BartoliDepartment of Science, Roma Tre University, Viale Marconi 446, 00146 Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-5917-561X

Funding

MIUR-Italy Italian Ministry of University and Research, National Operational Program "Research and Innovation" 2014-2020 Grant of Excellence Departments
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Green roofs have increasingly been used in urban contexts to increase thermal insulation, provide habitat for species, and increase urban biodiversity. Here, we provide the results of a monitoring experiment to document (1) the survival rate of planted species of a green roof with no maintenance and (2) the natural colonization by new species of the same roof. Each month for one year, we conducted floristic and vegetation surveys, identifying the species of colonizers and monitoring the cover of both planted and wild species. We conducted various statistical tests to determine the driving factors of spontaneous plants' colonization of the unattended green roof. Among the planted species, several Mediterranean species thrived despite the lack of irrigation, and among these,

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Mediterranean green roofsnatural colonizationurban biodiversityurban living roofs

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PMID41157737
PMCPMC12567229

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