Atmospheric dry tolerance of dendrological plants and ways of implementation in urban and periurban green spaces

Abstract

The impact of climate change increasingly depends on the measures and how affected areas, especially urban ones, manage to adapt by improving urban plans, increasing areas with green spaces, and adapting infrastructure to encourage the use of means of non-polluting transportation. But in the case of dendrological plants, atmospheric drought and pedological drought affect the normal development of vital processes due to cell dehydration, which in the short term leads to wilting of plants, and in the long term, can even lead to their death. All the properties of plant tissues to survive stressors are in fact plant resistance. In this sense, in landscaping in addition to the already known functions (sanitary, utilitarian, decorative), it is imperative to use resources rationally by proposing the use of dendrological and floricultural species as adapted to these stressful environmental conditions. This paper addresses the issues of high drought and its effects on plants, some aspects of the assortment of dendrological plants with drought tolerance suitable for the Iasi area and a proposal to implement these studies in the periurban landscape of Iasi by arranging a square in the peri-urban area of Iasi.