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This work was funded by FDEDER funds, through the operational program COMPETE and by national funds, through the National Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), in the framework of the project CLICURB (EXCL/AAG-MAA/0383/2012). This work was also partly supported by COST Action FP1204 “Green Infrastructure approach: linking environmental with social aspects in studying and managing urban forests.”
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Miranda, A.I. et al. (2017). Case Studies: Modeling the Atmospheric Benefits of Urban Greening. In: Pearlmutter, D., et al. The Urban Forest. Future City, vol 7. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50280-9_10
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