Qualidade ambiental e oferta de serviços dos estratos árboreos-arbustivos presentes na Avenida Frei Serafim, principal via da cidade de Teresina-PI

Abstract

Urban afforestation offers several benefits to cities and some of them are linked to climate improvement, due to the microclimate that trees provide, bringing environmental comfort and better air quality. It helps bringing an improvement to both physical and mental health for the population because it is aesthetically pleasing, its influence is notorious as the reduction of visual pollution, and all these factors add up to a conservation bringing an ecologically balanced environment. However, it is extremely important that there is a good inspection, monitoring and planning for the adaptation of tree species, preferably native, chosen and inserted in the urban space in which we live, so that problems and damages involving the electrical network, water network and sewers, sidewalks and obstacles to movement are avoided. So, this article addressed the importance of preserving afforestation on Avenida Frei Serafim.