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Overview

Nigel Dunnett is affiliated with the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom. Their academic focus centers on environmental science, reflected by publications in this field.

The main fields of study associated with Nigel Dunnett include:

  • Environmental Science

Within these broader areas, Dunnett has contributed to several subfields, such as:

  • Environmental Engineering
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

The primary research topics addressed in Dunnett's work feature:

  • Urban Heat Island Mitigation
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Urban Green Space and Health

Nigel Dunnett has collaborated frequently with Christine Thuring, indicating ongoing joint research efforts.

This profile reflects Dunnett's areas of research interest and academic collaborations without speculation beyond the factual data provided.

Best Publications

  • Green Roofs as Urban Ecosystems: Ecological Structures, Functions, and Services

    Erica Oberndorfer;Jeremy Lundholm;Brad Bass;Reid R. Coffman

  • Planting Green Roofs and Living Walls

    Nigel Dunnett;Noël Kingsbury

  • Nature, Role and Value of Green Space in Towns and Cities: An Overview

    Carys Swanwick;Nigel Dunnett;Helen Woolley

  • Drought tolerance in different vegetation types for extensive green roofs: Effects of watering and diversity

    Ayako Nagase;Nigel Dunnett

  • Amount of water runoff from different vegetation types on extensive green roofs: Effects of plant species, diversity and plant structure

    Ayako Nagase;Nigel Dunnett

  • Influence of vegetation composition on runoff in two simulated green roof experiments

    Nigel Dunnett;Ayako Nagase;Rosemary Booth;Philip Grime

  • Biodiverse perennial meadows have aesthetic value and increase residents’ perceptions of site quality in urban green-space

    Georgina E. Southon;Anna Jorgensen;Nigel Dunnett;Helen Hoyle

  • Woodland as a setting for housing-appreciation and fear and the contribution to residential satisfaction and place identity in Warrington New Town, UK

    Anna Jorgensen;James Hitchmough;Nigel Dunnett

  • Perceived Benefits to Human Well-being of Urban Gardens

    Nigel Dunnett;Muhammad Qasim

  • Perceived species-richness in urban green spaces: Cues, accuracy and well-being impacts

    Georgina E Southon;Anna Jorgensen;Nigel Dunnett;Helen Hoyle

  • The dynamics of planted and colonising species on a green roof over six growing seasons 2001–2006: influence of substrate depth

    Nigel Dunnett;Ayako Nagase;Adrian Hallam

  • A new practical tool for deriving a functional signature for herbaceous vegetation

    R. Hunt;J.G. Hodgson;K. Thompson;P. Bungener

  • Biodiversity, ecosystem function and plant traits in mature and immature plant communities

    K. Thompson;A. P. Askew;J. P. Grime;N. P. Dunnett

  • The Dynamic Landscape: Design, Ecology and Management of Naturalistic Urban Planting

    Nigel Dunnett;James Hitchmough

  • A 38-year study of relations between weather and vegetation dynamics in road verges near Bibury, Gloucestershire

    N. P. Dunnett;A. J. Willis;R. Hunt;J. P. Grime

  • Plant species or flower colour diversity? Identifying the drivers of public and invertebrate response to designed annual meadows

    Helen Hoyle;Briony Norton;Nigel Dunnett;J. Paul Richards

  • Urban meadows as an alternative to short mown grassland: effects of composition and height on biodiversity.

    Briony A. Norton;Briony A. Norton;Gary D. Bending;Rachel Rachel Clark;Ronald Corstanje

  • “Not in their front yard” The opportunities and challenges of introducing perennial urban meadows: A local authority stakeholder perspective

    Helen Hoyle;Anna Jorgensen;Philip Warren;Nigel Dunnett

  • Little evidence for limiting similarity in a long-term study of a roadside plant community

    Ken Thompson;Owen L. Petchey;Andrew P. Askew;Nigel P. Dunnett

  • Vegetation composition of old extensive green roofs (from 1980s Germany)

    Christine E Thuring;Nigel Dunnett

Frequent Co-Authors

Karl L. Evans
Karl L. Evans University of Sheffield
J. P. Grime
J. P. Grime University of Sheffield
Philip H. Warren
Philip H. Warren University of Sheffield
Ken Thompson
Ken Thompson University of Sheffield
Ben A. Woodcock
Ben A. Woodcock UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
John G. Hodgson
John G. Hodgson University of Sheffield
Owen L. Petchey
Owen L. Petchey University of Zurich
Andrew P. Beckerman
Andrew P. Beckerman University of Sheffield
Jeremy T. Lundholm
Jeremy T. Lundholm Saint Mary's University
Gary D. Bending
Gary D. Bending University of Warwick

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