Danijela Puric-Mladenovic

• Ph.D.
• Professor (Assistant) at University of Toronto

Urban forests are recognized worldwide as the most critical component of green infrastructure due to their capacity to provide various environmental goods and services. As cities continue to expand and their environmental problems intensify, there is a growing need for urban forests and green infrastructure to be better incorporated into strategic...

Urban forests are recognized worldwide as the most critical component of green infrastructure due to their capacity to provide various environmental goods and services. As cities continue to expand and their environmental problems intensify, there is a growing need for urban forests and green infrastructure to be better incorporated into strategic...

Alongside the steep reductions needed in fossil fuel emissions, natural climate solutions (NCS) represent readily deployable options that can contribute to Canada’s goals for emission reductions. We estimate the mitigation potential of 24 NCS related to the protection, management, and restoration of natural systems that can also deliver numerous co...

The existing natural vegetation in the Lake Simcoe watershed, which is critical for the maintenance of ecosystem functions and processes, is exposed to many anthropogenic, biotic, and abiotic stresses. By monitoring natural vegetation, spatial and temporal changes can be detected and tracked to determine their causes, magnitudes, and impacts on the...

Efforts aimed at mitigating global climate change recognize land use and forestry activities as relatively low cost options that enhance terrestrial carbon storage and help reduce greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. As Ontario develops a cap-and-trade system and a complementary offsets program involving forestry projects, forest conservation and en...

Evidence-based conservation seeks to incorporate sound scientific information into environmental deci-sion making. The application of this concept in urban forest management has tremendous potential, but to date has been little applied, largely because existing scientific studies emphasize the importance of urban forests in large-scale ecological a...

Landscape planning in settled landscapes includes identifying larger areas of natural vegetation to be conserved protected and/or managed for various environmental and public services. These “green backbones” of the landscape, called Natural Heritage Systems (NHS) in the settled landscapes of southern Ontario, Canada, should have appropriate land u...

This report provides restoration performance measures for the Oak Ridges Moraine (ORM) restoration during the 2003-2009 period. It also summarizes restoration and stewardship activities during the 2003-2009 period. The summaries reflect the quality of restoration information supplied to the ORMF by participating organizations. Spatial data from the...

Analysis using the Vegetation Sampling Protocol (VSP) pilot data collected in the Lake Simcoe watershed (2011) was done to assess the protocol's effectiveness in supporting natural heritage monitoring for the Lake Simcoe Protection Plan (LSPP). The VSP data was analyzed and assessed in the context of information needs for forest management and cons...

Background/Question/Methods Under the current rapid climate change, trees are of particular interest among plants because of their relatively low migration capabilities. Although increasing landscape connectivity is an important strategy from a climate change perspective, as yet little research has identified where such increases might best take pl...

Protected lands form an essential component of landscape planning, and often extend beyond protection of existing natural areas to consider enhancement through restoration to improve existing conditions.We tested an automated conservation science-based methodology and systematic approach to delineate conservation and restoration priority areas on t...

Under a 2°C increase in global temperature, SSTs in the Northwest Atlantic are expected to increase by 1.5-2.2°C. On the northeast U.S. continental shelf warming will be roughly equivalent in summer and winter, but in the waters of the Scotian and Newfoundland-Labrador shelves, greater warming in winter means that seasonality will be reduced. We ex...

Forests patches and forest fragmentation were quantified for seven area municipalities within the Regional Municipality of York for the period from 1975 to 1988. This quantification made it possible to determine the extent of forest changes in space and time. In 1988, forest cover shrank to 30%-50% of its 1975 extent. At the same time, the number o...