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  1. Department of Forest Ecology, Slovenian Forestry Institute (SFI), Ljubljana, Slovenia

    Urša Vilhar

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  1. Bona Terra Department of Man in the Desert, Swiss Institute for Dryland Environmental and Energy Research, Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sede Boqer Campus, Be’er Sheva, Israel

    David Pearlmutter

  2. Institute of Agro-Environmental and Forest Biology (IBAF), National Research Council (CNR), Monterotondo (Rome), Porano (TR), Italy

    Carlo Calfapietra

  3. Faculty of Sciences, Department of Bioscience Engineering, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

    Roeland Samson

  4. Centre for Ecosystems, Society and Biosecurity, Social and Economic Research Group (Forest Research), Surrey, United Kingdom

    Liz O'Brien

  5. Department for International Scientific Cooperation in Southeast Europe, Croatian Forest Research Institute, Zagreb, Croatia

    Silvija Krajter Ostoić

  6. Department of Agricultural and Environmental Science, University of Bari, Bari, Italy

    Giovanni Sanesi

  7. Ecotoxicology of Air Pollution, CIEMAT, Madrid, Spain

    Rocío Alonso del Amo

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Vilhar, U. (2017). Water Regulation and Purification. In: Pearlmutter, D., et al. The Urban Forest. Future City, vol 7. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50280-9_5

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